@nicknisbett
Member, Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition & Health Equity, University of Sussex, UK
Food systems work perfectly...
...for the handful of multinational corporations who control them, that is 😱
We need to focus less on profit, and more on people and planet.
To achieve this we need government action and strong social movements, says @stuartgillespie.bsky.social
What would it take to transform the global food system?
Coinciding with #UNFSS2025 we’re sharing a series of videos from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social hosted by IDS.
For @philbakernz.bsky.social redistribution of resources to enable more households to access healthy food is the key.
Food systems are unfair, often built on legacies of colonialism. We need improved policies to support people marginalised in food systems, especially those working in fields, factories & hospitality.
@deewoods.bsky.social explains how food systems can be changed.
@foodequitycentre.bsky.social
We need to move away from food systems which encourage overconsumption and overproduction, says IDS researcher Lidia Cabral from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
As citizens, how can we reassess our relationship with food to help achieve this change?
Quote card which reads: "Corporate concentration in multiple aspects of food systems is part of the problem driving inequitable outcomes, and representatives of many of these corporations were active at the Summit."
Did last month's #UNFSS conference focus too much on investment for food, and not enough on rights and accountability?
Read our co-Director Jody Harris's take on the discussions @justjody23.bsky.social
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/acc...
Hunger is a crime in South Africa. Who are the criminals?
Stephen Devereux of the Food Equity Centre and Mark Heywood identify the accused as the state, supermarkets and privately owned corporate food producers ⬇️
#WorldFoodDay
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Launched in 2024, the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty is playing a crucial role in the fight against hunger and poverty. How is it using evidence to inform policy?
Join the Food Equity Centre and the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada to find out:
ids-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
In case you missed it in your busy inbox (somehow I did!) the Food Equity Centre's fantastic new newsletter is now out - you can view it and sign up (please do!) here mailchi.mp/ids.ac.uk/fo...
Resilience in food systems should not just be about bouncing back - we need to find ways to bounce forward.
On #WorldFoodDay, read about Equitably Transformative Resilience, a new concept proposed by the latest @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social report.
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/equ...
🎙️IDS #Podcast
What does it mean to navigate #motherhood while pursuing a postgraduate degree?
IDS students Patronela Tshuma, Chaltu Merera Fana, and Akinyi Ochieng speak about their journeys as mothers pursuing higher education.
#Gender
Listen at: 👉https://ids.pulse.ly/afmp3twszx
Next in our @foodequitycentre.bsky.social series asking how to transform the food system, @stuartgillespie.bsky.social! thanks again @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
HAPPENING TOMORROW
Our webinar ‘Boiling Point’ will present findings from our report on heat stress in Colombo, followed by a discussion on extreme heat in South Asia and policy solutions.
Time: 6.30pm IST/ 2.00pm UK
Click here to join: us02web.zoom.us/j/88231558646
From the farm to the fork, inequalities exist throughout the entire food system.
📌Addressing inequalities in #foodsecurity and #nutrition lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Download your copy of the HLPE-FSN report📘https://f.mtr.cool/xmxvjggzzz
Excited to be presenting in this webinar alongside awesome colleagues on Monday July 14 on Concentrated Corporate Power in Global Food Systems: Consequences and Potential Policy Responses. Info below! 👇
www.unfoodsystemshub.org/latest-updat...
@hilalelver.bsky.social @stefanosfotiou.bsky.social
And Phillip Baker:
Here's Dee Woods once again:
Next up in our series asking how we can transform global/local food systems - our own (Food Equity Centre and @ids.ac.uk's) Lidia Cabral. Check it out! And thanks again @philbakernz.bsky.social @deewoods.bsky.social for the earlier videos in this series and @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
New video 🎬
Modern food systems encourage overconsumption and overproduction.
As citizens, we need to reassess our relationship with food.
Lidia Cabral offers her take on transforming food systems #sustainablefarming @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social
"Food is for people, and we need to have alternative economic systems that benefit our communities and those people who are underserved in communities"
@deewoods.bsky.social shares her vision for transforming food systems in this latest video from the Food Equity Centre
NEW REPORT JUST LAUNCHED!
🛢️Our food system is hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of #climate talks.
🔥Food systems use 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals.
#FuelToFork exposes the risks – and lays out real paths to #FossilFreeFood.
👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#ClimateAction #BigOil
Lots of fantastic food equity related news in our latest newsletter, don't miss it. Sign up!! @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
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New issue of our newsletter just out!
Top story: the relaunch of Consea, the national food and nutrition security council in Brazil
Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/ids.ac.uk/fo...
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INCYMI amazing video here by @deewoods.bsky.social for @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
So grateful to @deewoods.bsky.social for participating in this @foodequitycentre.bsky.social series of films asking what it will take to transform the global food system, with thanks also to filmmakers @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social ! ping also @philbakernz.bsky.social thanks again for yours!
People working in food systems - those in fields, in factories and in hospitality need to have their labour fairly compensated.
That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social from @landworkersuk.bsky.social and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to speak with the team from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social at @ids.ac.uk about transforming the global food system. I was visiting to speak about the global health challenge of ultra-processed foods, and we made this short video 👇 please check out the wonderful work they are doing
What would it take to transform the global food system?
For @philbakernz.bsky.social, redistribution of resources to enable more households to access healthy food is the key.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4q...
What actions do you think are needed? #foodjustice #foodsystems
Happy to have contributed an essay on food and conflict in the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg...
It’s been great working with @nicknisbett.bsky.social and @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social at @ids.ac.uk to develop this series of short films featuring thought provoking insights from food system academia and beyond.
"When the legal threshold for genocide is met, we must call it genocide – and act accordingly."
Read the commentary from Martin Griffiths, former UN humanitarian chief and @philipproudfoot.bsky.social
https://ac.pulse.ly/q5ldukwti0
