The PepsiCo Foundation will double down on efforts to increase people’s equitable access to nutritious food
PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation, the company’s philanthropic arm, announced the expansion of actions that promote food security.
Through the Food for Good program, the Foundation will double its efforts to increase people’s equitable access to nutritious food, scaling up its own investments and introducing new ways to engage people in the fight against hunger.
The program, which has already devoted more than $35 million to increasing access to nutritious food and increasing productivity and incomes for smallholder farmers, will direct investments to interventions that demonstrate the power to create long-term solutions while continuing to meet the needs immediate hunger.
“We are responding to the social call to address growing global food insecurity and plan to continue our investments significantly. But to make a meaningful impact, we all have a role to play in our global food systems, which must be part of the solution to meet the immediate need, as well as working on approaches to prevent us from facing a crisis like this again,” said CD Glin, vice president of the PepsiCo Foundation and global head of philanthropy at PepsiCo. .
Food for Good is presenting three ways for people to learn more about worsening global food insecurity and contribute to a solution:
Food for Good Changemaker video series, which will show different ways in which community leaders are dealing with hunger to create resilience in their own “backyards” and highlight the actions of ordinary people, as is the case of Evelyn Dayse, who participates in Gastromotiva, an organization that created a Solidarity Kitchens program to promote and generate income through professional training and scholarships offered to social cooks based on a contribution from PepsiCo via the PepsiCo Foundation. With the investment, the company aims to directly impact 5,600 people by the end of this year.
Podcast Journey to Zero Hunger (Journey to Zero Hunger, in Portuguese), which will explore real-world lessons and possible solutions to the global hunger crisis. The program will welcome guests such as Ertharin Cousin, former executive director of the UN World Food Program and CEO of Food Systems for the Future; Carin Smaller, Executive Director, Shamba Center for Food & Climate; and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, as well as cultural contributors including Lauren Bush Lauren, founder of FEED; Kyle Rudolph, NFL forward and member of the GENYOUth Board of Directors; and Chef JJ Johnson, James Beard Award winner and host of Just Eats.
Partnership with FEED, to launch a themed bag edition and each purchase will provide 10 nutritious meals to children around the world through No Kid Hungry, the UN World Food Program and Akshaya Patra tight end and.