Can access to food be revolutionary?
@stevemetcalfe.bsky.social reflects on work in Brazil to make food systems fairer www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/can...
"Food is treated not just as a commodity, but as a right, and a route to wider change."
@ids.ac.uk #foodjustice
Event alert 📢
Food policies, social participation and equity: national and international challenges
Wed 4 March at UFRRJ in Brazil
Join us to hear perspectives on hunger, food systems transformation and global policy-making.
Live-streamed in English at www.youtube.com/@oppaufrrj/s...
The left side of the graphic shows white text on a green background: "Opinion; The fragility of multilateralism and progress in food equity in 2025". The right side shows a meeting with flags from different countries in the background
As the multilateral system faces its most significant threats in decades, what has been the impact on efforts to make food systems more equitable?
@justjody23.bsky.social provides her take on 2025:
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/the...
#foodjustice
@ids.ac.uk
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Event!
What do we mean by Equitably Transformative Resilience?
Building on a new @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social report introducing this concept, join members of the writing team to learn more
Register ▶️ www.ids.ac.uk/events/hlpe-...
Chaired by @justjody23.bsky.social
@ids.ac.uk
Two pairs of outstretched arms and hands across either sides of a wooden table holding a bowl of fresh salad. Other plates of food can be seen on the table below to salad bowl.
The UK’s new Right to Food Commission aims to support community kitchens. But do they need some re-design?
The DISHED research project, led by IDS is inquiring into the concept of ‘public restaurants’ as an alternative to the community kitchen model:https://ids.pulse.ly/xolqovtyeo
#RightToFood
"Eradication of hunger and poverty requires not only political will, but also governance" - Elisabetta Recine, National Council for Food and Nutrition Security, Brazil and Food Equity Centre
Watch the recording of our recent #WSSD2025 event to learn more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb-n...
Happening today as part of the Second World Summit for Social Development!
Join us to learn more about the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty
⏰13.30 UK time
ids-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#WSSD2025
Text-based graphic which says "Equity-driven evidence for policymaking; Food Equity Centre in conversation with the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty. 6 November 2025 | 13:30-15:00 (UK time), online on Zoom" The FEC and IPEA logos are bottom left
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...
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...
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
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...
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?
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
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 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
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
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Event! 📢
How can relationships between the government and farmers affect people's livelihoods and economic vulnerability?
Join us next Tuesday, 15 July, to learn about research from northern Vietnam on aquaculture #livelihoods
www.ids.ac.uk/events/power... @ids.ac.uk #foodsecurity
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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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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
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We'll share updates on our work a few times a year
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
New from the Food Equity Centre: Grassroots projects provide more dignified alternative to food banks
Read more here: www.ids.ac.uk/news/grassro... @ids.ac.uk
Image of a field with rows of small crops. The text "Folk seed banks to build resistance to seed capitalism" sits over the image, with the Food Equity Centre logo top left
Folk seed banks to build resistance to seed #capitalism
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Dr Debal Deb, Indian seed sovereignty expert and activist, and founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Register now: www.ids.ac.uk/events/folk-...
#foodjustice
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📣IDS and @foodequitycentre.bsky.social event!
Join us for the launch of Food Fight: From plunder and profit to people and planet - a book by food and nutrition expert @stuartgillespie.bsky.social
Tuesday 29 April at 16:00 to 17:30. At IDS and online on Zoom.
Book: www.ids.ac.uk/events/food-...
An event poster which says "Food Fight: From plunder and profit to people and planet", in large text. In smaller text: "With Stuart Gillespie, Honorary Associate, IDS and non-resident Senior Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute. Logos of the Institute of Development Studies and the Food Equity Centre are at the bottom. A headshot of the speaker, Stuart Gillespie is on the right. The background of the poster is red.
We're delighted to host @stuartgillespie.bsky.social
for a discussion on reimagining our global food system - putting people and planet above profits
Join us: 29 April 16:00 UK time, online and in person at @ids.ac.uk
www.ids.ac.uk/events/food-...
Recent outbreaks of avian influenza cast doubt on the mantra that large industrialised farms are always best from a biosecurity perspective.
Could the next global pandemic originate from the so-called “developed world”?
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/avi... @ids.ac.uk
Trying to make sense of the current madness, an academic ethics perspective on food systems transformation, just transitions, and USAID cuts in my new blog:
www.anh-academy.org/community/bl...
Inspired by friends working for justice 💚
@foodequitycentre.bsky.social @anhacademy.bsky.social
Text of a press release. The headline reads, "What would an anti-hunger budget look like". The logo at the top of the page reads Union Against Hunger
Text of a press release, page 2. The logo at the top reads Union Against Hunger. Most of the page is concerned with 3 policy recommendations: Reject the VAT increase and replace it with wealth taxes; Raise social grants to the Food Poverty Line; Deliver adequate nutrition to all children in early learning programmes
South Africa's new Budget provided little comfort for the millions of #food insecure South Africans. The Union Against #Hunger calls for 3 policy changes:
Wealth taxes
Increase social grants
Nutrition in schools
unionagainsthunger.org
