Douglas Gayeton is co-founder of Lexicon of Food, a US-based NGO. The platform has gathered over 1000 companies and organizations across the globe to build impact movements tackling our food systems' greatest challenges, from food waste to food as medicine, transparent supply chains to climate change, with generous support from Food at Google. The initiative created REGEN1, a place-based standard for regenerative agriculture, Lex Icons, a global visual language for food and agricultural systems, REAWAKENED, an international initiative supporting biodiversity, and the Ecological Benefits Framework.
Collectively, Lexicon of Food's work helps people pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and where their responsibility begins for creating a healthier, safer food system.
Douglas Gayeton is also an award-winning information architect, filmmaker, photographer, and writer. He directed the KNOW YOUR FOOD series for PBS, GROWING ORGANIC for USDA, and MOLOTOV ALVA for HBO. He has authored two books: SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town and LOCAL: The New Face of Food & Farming in America. Gayeton is one of Crop Trust’s Food Forever champions and a visiting professor in the Master’s Program at Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy.