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The world is changing fast – whether we like it or not. Businesses and governments alike are having to take stock, and adapt to new pressures, demands, and challenges as climate change, pandemics, pollution and population growth threaten to destabilise the societal structures we have for so long had the luxury not to notice. We feel that, now more than ever, the global food system in all of its complexities and contradictions, is worth paying attention to. So we’ve decided to set out just a few of the reasons why.

The Coller Foundation launches inaugural Hay Festival, Tel Aviv. The Coller Foundation is bringing the Hay Festival to Tel Aviv. Growing from a field in Wales, for 30 years Hay has brought readers and writer together to share stories and ideas in celebration events around the world, from the beaches of Cartagena and Kerala to the heart of great cities like Beirut and Mexico City. In 2020 the Coller Foundation will present the first-ever Hay festival in Israel with plans to continue the event annually.

In 1970, Roger Payne’s Songs of the Humpback Whale revealed the complexity of whale communication and helped spark the global “Save The Whales” movement. Today, over 1,200 original recordings are being digitised by Ocean Alliance, with support from the Jeremy Coller Foundation, to preserve this historic archive for research and public access.