ALLFED Institute

Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) is a nonprofit organization with two primary objectives:

1) to identify, pilot, and prepare resilient food solutions.

2) to help governments and communities implement these solutions during a global food shock through the implementation of policy, preparedness plans, and investments.

We aim to minimize the damage of a global catastrophe on the global food system by increasing the chances that people worldwide continue to have access to nutritious food, during and after the catastrophe.

Our work examines resilient food solutions that could “feed everyone, no matter what”:

• the feasibility of different food options: how they could be grown or produced and what they would cost;
• how solutions could be scaled up to feed millions of people;
• how nutritious the different foods are; and
• the different types of scenarios that might lead to a loss of food—including loss of sunlight, extreme climate change (hot or cold), loss of electricity, loss of industry, and/or loss of transportation, and the different ways to feed people in these scenarios.

ALLFED’s scientists, engineers, and economists evaluate resilient food solutions across regions to maintain the most up-to-date knowledge on the best options.

Read more about ALLFED’s research.

Other members of the team are working to build relationships with governments, international institutions, the media, and other key stakeholders to help them understand the catastrophic risks we are concerned about and to take action to build resilience against global catastrophic food failure (GCFF).