We're building a fair, green and ethical food system

Healthy Food Healthy Planet (HFHP) catalyses a movement of changemakers by focusing on building connections, trust and collaboration across sectors, actors and issues to transform food environments. We resource civil society organisations based in Europe, and support collaboration and alliance building for a future where healthy, just, and sustainable diets are the norm and the food we eat doesn’t cost the earth.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do

Movement building

We bring together a network of change-makers in animal welfare, food justice and health organisations, farmers, and workers associations to build alliances with compassion and curiosity. We convene and support the network to co-create our strategy, set the direction of travel, and act collectively through projects and collaborations. We work together to identify common challenges, amplify voices, build capacity for system change and maximise our collective impact.

Learning

We place a strong focus on learning-by-doing and experimentation in everything we do. Our Learning framework embraces complexity, encourages deep reflection, explores system change and increases the flow of information and learning through the network. This helps scale advocacy efforts, embrace and explore mistakes and setbacks, and catalyse system change through continuous learning and adaptation.

The Pooled Fund

We fundraise to make more resources available for collaborative, transformational food work with a systems approach.
Through the pooled fund, we direct resources to drive change according to the strategy informed by the insight and priorities of our civil society partners. Our grants are strategic, pragmatic and additive. They support collaboration, not competition, helping organisations learn and work together. We strive to make our funding process more participatory and driven by those directly involved in transforming the food system.

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Our principles

We believe everyone has the right to access and eat healthy, just and sustainable foods. 

We acknowledge that only a pluralist, participatory and powerful movement can generate the necessary system change. This can only happen by working and learning together in a joint strategy across siloes and issue areas. 

We want a world with predominantly, healthy, just and sustainable plant-based food and an end to harmful (animal) farming.

We acknowledge that Europe is both responsible and influential in modelling food systems. It has the responsibility to avoid negative impacts elsewhere as part of international solidarity. 

We focus on the transformative change of food environments in collaboration with a diversity of local communities.

We uphold dignity for everyone involved in the food web. For us to succeed, justice is required for all living beings and is at the core of all our work. 

We support transparency, solidarity and compassion between all actors in the movement and with other stakeholders involved.

We create and share knowledge and resources to build a body of political, investor and business champions to align food environments within planetary boundaries. 

We act to radically transform our food environments so that accessible, just, healthy and sustainable food (with a majority of plant-based foods) is the norm and harmful agriculture ends. We support each other, share learnings, expertise and campaign together. Together our impact is more powerful and inevitable.

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Coordination team

The Coordination team connects and strengthens all HFHP constituencies to drive our collective impact. The team works closely with our civil society network and the Kitchen Table to set our strategy and priorities, support collective action, enhance learning, and grow the pooled fund.

The Social Change Nest team provides administrative and infrastructure support to HFHP. They are our fiscal host.

The Kitchen Table

HFHP’s Kitchen Table is a different kind of Steering Committee, with equal representation from foundations and civil society. It is responsible for allocating the grants we give, keeps the Coordination Team accountable, and engages with the community.

Alexandra Pinzon

Head of Biodiversity at ShareAction

Anders Højlund

Director of Development

Anna Spurek

CEO at Green REV Institute and CEO at Safe Food Federation

Chris Gee

Campaign Lead at the Oak Foundation

David Sánchez

Director of the Spanish Federation of Consumers CECU

Fabio Ciconte

President at Terra!

Janelle Conn

Projects and Network Coordinator at ECOLISE

Marina Mussapi

Chief Operating Officer of the Moleskine Foundation

Patrizia Rezzoli

Managing Director of the Seedling Foundation

Valerie Remoquillo-Jenni

CEO at Fourfold Foundation

Funders

Since 2020, Healthy Food Healthy Planet (HFHP) has acted as both a regranter and a catalyst for cross-sector, cross-country collaboration – made possible by the commitment of a dozen European and international foundations. Our supporters share a common conviction: transforming Europe’s food systems is essential to achieving health, climate, biodiversity, animal welfare, and just transition goals.
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Some funders invest directly in our pooled fund, while others also contribute their most valuable asset – the time and expertise of their teams – to our co-creation processes. This blend of financial and intellectual resources enables HFHP to serve as both a strategic convenor and a driver of collective action.
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We are proud to receive current financial support from:
‍Oak Foundation| FourFold Foundation | Seedling Foundation | ClimateWorks Foundation

Funded members

Funded partners receive support from the pooled fund for projects aligned with the strategic framework, categorised by lever. Projects can be filtered by lever (finance, retail, sub-national action), including cross-cutting levers like narrative shift or strategic litigation.

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