The Good Food Fund (
Chinese: 良食基金) is a Chinese
food sustainability and health
NGO that was founded by
Jian Yi
Jian Yi () is a Chinese independent filmmaker, social innovator and food activist. His films ''Bamboo Shoots'' and '' Super, Girls!'' won a number of international film festival awards. Jian Yi co-founded the ground-breaking China Villager Docum ...
and promotes a plant-based diet.
It mainly operates by organising conferences such as the yearly ''Good Food Summit'' (良食峰会),
which took place in 2017 in
Yangzhou, in 2018 in
Chengdu
Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...
, in 2019 in
Suzhou
Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...
, and online in 2020.
The Fund stated five main areas of concern in 2019:
loss of biodiversity and
climate change,
hunger, unhealthy diets,
food waste,
abuse
Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, crimes, or other t ...
of
farmed animals
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals wh ...
.
In November 2020, the donation consultants of
Animal Charity Evaluators announced the Good Food Fund as one of its twelve recommended charities, in the second of two tiers. As reasons for their recommendation, they cited the Fund's "strong programmatic work and their commitment to empowering other advocates".
References
External links
* Good Food Fund review by
Animal Charity Evaluatorsbr>
* Good Food Fund profile on the website of China Development Brie
{{Effective altruism
Animal welfare organizations based in China
Food politics
Non-governmental organizations
Organizations associated with effective altruism
Organizations based in Beijing
Plant-based diet organizations