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Daniel Vennard

Global Program Director
WRI

Daniel Vennard is Global Program Director, leading the Better Buying Lab within the World Resources Institute.

Daniel is Global Program Director, leading the Better Buying Lab within the World Resources Institute. He works with food companies and and experts in behaviour change and marketing to develop, test and scale new ideas that can help shift diets to more sustainable options.

Previously, Daniel worked at Mars Incorporated and Procter & Gamble in corporate strategy, sustainability and marketing. He has written and presented on how consumers can be shifted towards buying more sustainable products.

Daniel holds a first class degree from Sheffield University in Plant Sciences.

Daniel is a frequent speaker on sustainability and sustainable consumption and co-author of academic papers on the topic. He is on the advisory board of Sustainable Brands and a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, Science and Manufacturing.

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Q&A: How a ‘Cuban’ Name Change Boosted Panera’s Soup Sales

WRI’s Better Buying Lab works with food companies to research and test science-based approaches that encourage consumers to choose more sustainable, plant-based foods. ... View More

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Don’t Put Vegetables in the Corner: A Q&A with Behavioral Science Researcher Linda Bacon

New research out of the London School of Economics should wake up many in the food industry. In a first-of-its-kind experiment, Linda Bacon – a graduate student in behavioral science and former Global Strategy Director at Mars, Incorporated – tes... View More

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We’re Lousy at Describing Sustainable Food, But It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way

As Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen says, “We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.” We rarely realize it, but language is the lens through which we form perceptions about people, pla... View More

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What the Personal Beauty Industry Can Teach Us About Men’s Diets

As a teenager growing up in England in the 1990s, so-called lads’ mags were all the rage. Back then, these kinds of magazines ruled the newsstands, promulgating a kind of macho boyhood that was rough and rowdy. They set a cultural expectation for y... View More

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How the Better Buying Lab Aims to Accelerate Demand for Sustainable Food

The latest food trend isn’t a particular cuisine or exotic ingredient; it’s sustainability. Nearly 75 percent of Americans think sustainability is important when deciding what food to buy. The food industry has noticed. In Britain, close to half ... View More

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How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

In 2004 I was on my knees scrabbling through the Cameroon rainforest. A keen botanist, I’d signed up as a volunteer with an NGO to help map the forest and search for new species. One day whilst hiking along a surging river, I came across a little s... View More

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