Food Security and Humanitarian Crisis
Produce Prescription Programs Study Shows Promising Benefits
August 29, 2023
In the largest known such study to date, an analysis of participant records by Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy researchers found programs that provide free fruits and vegetables have measurable benefits for health and food security.
Around the country, non-profits and local governments are testing the idea of food as medicine through “produce prescription programs”—with promising results, according to researchers from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. 
Feinstein Researchers Publish Article in the Journal of Public Health Policy
July 11, 2023
Anastasia Marshak, Teddy Atim, and Dyan Mazurana of the Feinstein International Center, have published their article, “International Humanitarian Law Violations in Northern Uga 
Seaweed Farming for Food Security
June 14, 2023
Researchers at the Friedman School see significant income-boosting potential in the sustainable superfood
An Update From Tufts’ Jordan Nutrition Innovation Lab
June 14, 2023
Tufts’ Jordan Nutrition Innovation Lab Leads Efforts to Support Optimal Infant, Young Child and Maternal Nutrition and Health in Jordan. 
Project of Feinstein International Center releases SEADS Handbook
November 9, 2022
The Standards for Supporting Crop-Related Livelihoods in Emergencies (SEADS) handbook is new resource that aims to support humanitarians as they design, implement, and evaulate crop projects that are part of humanitarian responses.
The Handbook is now available on the SEADS website.
View SEADS Handbook
A Quarter Century Tackling the World’s Toughest Problems
October 28, 2022
The Feinstein International Center marks 25 years working on hunger and humanitarian aid through a powerful, multidisciplinary combination of research, field work, and education.
Working Toward a More Resilient World
October 11, 2022
To improve humanitarian aid and eliminate hunger, we need to join forces, according to the new director of the Feinstein International Center
Recently Rediscovered Documentation of Nazi Starvation Policies
July 29, 2022
Warsaw Ghetto’s defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book recently rediscovered on a library shelf
The War in Ukraine Is Escalating the Global Food Crisis
May 9, 2022
Now is the time to act. The Feinstein International Center’s Dan Maxwell describes who is suffering, how the war makes it worse, and how governments can help
