Miquel Santisteven, an ethnobotanist, farmer and seed saving activist from Taos who has developed a long-term collaboration with nature, talks about the adaptation of heritage crops, traditional dry-land farming systems, gathering wild plants, water strategies, and the significance of farming his grandmothers land.

Interview with Michael Elliott CEO of ONE at the 2012 World Bank & International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings. ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization with 3M members that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African activists and policy makers.

Nikki Henderson sends the important message in this video of "gathering people together with food."  Food is a tool for social change.  All of our movements are the same, we are fighting for the same thing happy, healthy, thriving people and planet. The best way to weave us together?: Feed the People. Nikki is the Executive Director of People's Grocery in West Oakland, CA. Under her leadership, the organization has launched a new strategic campaign focused on revitalizing the economy of West Oakland through all aspects of the food system. In 2010, Nikki was featured in ELLE Magazine as one of the five Gold Awardees. She is speaking at the Connecting for Change Conference sponsored by the Marion Institute.

Meet Richmond, CA's Tania Pulido, one of the Earth Island Institute's 2011 Brower Youth Award Winners! Tania is nourishing, employing, and educating her community through urban agriculture. Her award speech is here.

Growing fresh, high-quality lettuce is more than a job. For Dirk Giannini, it's a family tradition in the Salinas Valley, California. He talks about origins of terms "iceberg" lettuce. Provides lettuce for 80% of the nation.  Additional videos on McDonald's food suppliers found on their YouTube channel.

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Documentary filmmaker Ana Sofia Joanes talks about her passion in this video.

The Other Inconvenient Truth: How Agriculture is Changing the Face of Our Planet by Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota and leader of  the IonE’s Global Landscapes Initiative. Foley’s work focuses on complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies.

We typically think of climate change as the biggest environmental issue we face today. But maybe it's not? In this presentation, Jonathan Foley shows how agriculture and land use are maybe a bigger culprit in the global environment, and could grow even larger as we look to feed over 9 billion people in the future.

Krisotofor Lofgren of Bamboo Sushi in Portland, Oregon talks about his interest in environmental policy led him to starting a Sushi restaurant.

All of the fish served must come from populations that are plentiful and in good health.  Simply sourcing sustainable food is great, however, it is only a single dimension of sustainability. They are a B Corporation.