Toolbox

Cases

A growing number of case studies describe the efforts of Food Lab members to assess and improve the social or environmental performance of specific supply chains. Some of the cases come from the Healthy Value Chains Network created by the Food Lab, WWF, and the Society for Organizational Learning.

Download Innovations for Healthy Value Chains: Cases, Tools, and Methods, a compilation of the written cases so far, followed by a draft framework of tools and structural innovations that were used in those cases. 

Please also visit and considering submitting cases to our online geographically mapped database of cases.

Tools & Methods

Brief descriptions of useful processes and practices, tools and methods including the U Process used by the Food Lab.

Publications

Books, papers, articles all relevant to our work.

Learning History and Meeting Reports

A Food Lab learning history documents the path of learning the Food Lab has traveled through the questions asked, the issues focused on and the evolution of strategies participants have employed to change global food systems. Each chapter captures a stage in this journey through the words of the participants themselves as they experience the work and face the challenges of the global food system. Reports and presentations from Food Lab meetings are also available here.

Previous newsletter articles

See the following categories for articles on these topics or use the search box to the left

Slides

A slide show that provides an overview of the Sustainable Food Lab is available for downloading, in both PowerPoint and Keynote.

Blog

Some commentary on things as they proceed


Links