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WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM YouTube video by IPES-Food

🌾Without women, there is no food.

From farmers to food workers and community leaders, women sustain food systems across the world. Yet are denied resources and recognition.

On #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate the women who feed the world. 💜

#IWD2026 #WomenInAg #FoodSystems #Agroecology

I'I've been getting a lot of calls about the industrial food system's vulnerability to fertilizer import shocks. Here's an interactive widget: slide through the months to see who imports what, when, and through which chokepoint.
rajpatel.org/2026/03/06/f...

Stop the war. Stop the dependency.

FAO Food Price Index rises in February for first time in five months New forecasts also point to reduced wheat plantings in 2026 as farmers respond to lower prices.

Food prices were already rising before this latest war began... with oil and fertilizer prices rising, food prices are likely to rise further and drive up world food insecurity.

www.fao.org/newsroom/det...

The Farming Industry Has Embraced ‘Precision Agriculture’ and AI, but Critics Question Its Environmental Benefits - Inside Climate News Why have tech heavyweights, including Google and Microsoft, become so deeply integrated in agriculture? And who benefits from their involvement?

📰 More coverage of our #HeadInTheCloud ☁️ report.

As Inside Climate News reports, #BigTech-led AI tools are reshaping farming – and concentrating power over seeds, data & decisions.

“Who do these technologies benefit?” asks our Lim Li Ching.

🔗 insideclimatenews.org/news/2802202...
#FoodSystems #AI

La digitalización del campo por las tecnológicas amenaza con agrandar la brecha con el Sur Global, según un estudio El Panel Internacional de Expertos en Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles (IPES Food) advierte del peligro de que los algoritmos releguen a un segundo plano el conocimiento acumulado por los agricultore...

El nuevo informe de @ipes-food.org desmiente las promesas de la digitalización de la agricultura a manos de las corporaciones. Muestra también los peligros que encierra la alianza de gigantes tecnológicas como Microsoft, Amazon o Alibaba con las grandes del agronegocio. elpais.com/planeta-futu...

The Gulf Crisis and Africa’s Food Calculus: A Hidden Vulnerability. What would a new Middle East crisis mean for Africa’s food system? When Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni once asked, “Why would we starve while other people, far away from the continent, go to war?”...

⚠️ What happens when a war in the Gulf raises bread prices in Africa?

“Africa is unlikely to be a military participant… It will, however, be an economic casualty.” – Million Belay

#Foodsecurity cannot be outsourced to volatile global markets.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/gulf-c...

#FoodSovereignty

Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics

💻 The digital ag market is set to hit $84bn by 2034. But who benefits?

@theguardian.com covers our #HeadInTheCloud report, warning that #BigTech's AI farming tools are consolidating control over seeds & inputs.

Who decides what we grow: farmers or algorithms?

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Strait of Hormuz is closed just as spring planting starts. Here's a quick illustrated guide on how 'warflation' will make your food more expensive later this year: newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/how-the-wa...

Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics

💻 The digital ag market is set to hit $84bn by 2034. But who benefits?

@theguardian.com covers our #HeadInTheCloud report, warning that #BigTech's AI farming tools are consolidating control over seeds & inputs.

Who decides what we grow: farmers or algorithms?

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Gulf Crisis and Africa’s Food Calculus: A Hidden Vulnerability. What would a new Middle East crisis mean for Africa’s food system? When Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni once asked, “Why would we starve while other people, far away from the continent, go to war?”...

⚠️ What happens when a war in the Gulf raises bread prices in Africa?

“Africa is unlikely to be a military participant… It will, however, be an economic casualty.” – Million Belay

#Foodsecurity cannot be outsourced to volatile global markets.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/gulf-c...

#FoodSovereignty

📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran.

🥣 Food prices likely next.

1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a food access issue.

👉 #FuelToFork
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran.

🥣 Food prices likely next.

1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a food access issue.

👉 #FuelToFork
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

What Is Innovation in Agriculture? I'll dig into this a bit more next week in the newsletter, but here's a report to which I contributed, just out from IPES-Food, on what counts as agricultural innovation,...

What Is Innovation in Agriculture?

I'll dig into this a bit more next week in the newsletter, but here's a report to which I contributed, just out from IPES-Food, on what counts as agricultural...

This deep dive into the coordinated web of far-right politics is just starting. Find out more, and contribute, at reactionary.international

Who defines the problem shapes the solution.

In a time of climate & geopolitical instability, we cannot afford more tech that deepens dependency & concentrate power.

We need to reclaim innovation. Redirect funding. Break up Big Tech power.

📖 ipes-food.org/report-summa...
#HeadInTheCloud

The real innovation story may not be in the cloud – but in farmers’ fields.

@ipes-food.org highlights farmer-led seed systems, soil restoration & ecological pest management already delivering resilience.

📖 Read Head In The Cloud: tinyurl.com/yr656hmp

#FoodSystems #Agroecology #Innovation

The real #innovation story is not in the cloud.
It’s in farmers’ fields.

Farmers & communities are
🌾restoring soils
🌱breeding climate-adapted crops
🐞managing pests ecologically
🌍 building resilience.

Stop sidelining them.

📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...
#HeadInTheCloud #agroecology

IPES-Food IPES-Food (the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) is a global thinktank and expert group guiding action for sustainable food systems around the world. Bringing together 25 gro...

Yes, watch this space (and our Youtube www.youtube.com/ipesfood) early next week 🙏

The real #innovation story is not in the cloud.
It’s in farmers’ fields.

Farmers & communities are
🌾restoring soils
🌱breeding climate-adapted crops
🐞managing pests ecologically
🌍 building resilience.

Stop sidelining them.

📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...
#HeadInTheCloud #agroecology

🚨 New report from @IPESfood: Head In The Cloud

Who controls innovation in agriculture?

The report examines how Big Tech is reshaping farming – and highlights farmer-led alternatives already building resilience.

📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

#HeadInTheCloud

HEAD IN THE CLOUD - IPES-Food report NEW IPES-Food report examining corporate-led digitalization of farming and its impacts on power, dependency, and sustainability – and highlighting farmer-led innovations building resilient food system...

🚨Just launched: #HeadInTheCloud ☁️

Who controls #innovation in agriculture?

BigTech + BigAg are reshaping farming through AI & digital platforms - investing 💰billions.

But we’re betting on the wrong model.

Let’s reclaim innovation for people & the planet.

📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

💲Billions are flowing into digital agriculture.
AI. Precision tools. Cloud platforms.
@ipes-food.org new report warns corporate-led digitalisation risks increasing farmer debt & concentrating control over seeds and data.
📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

#HeadInTheCloud

🚨 Who controls the future of farming?

#BigTech is betting 💰billions on AI, cloud platforms, precision tools.

But this is:
⚠️driving farmers into debt
⚠️locking in high-cost systems
⚠️concentrating control over food.

#Innovation isn’t neutral.

📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

#HeadInTheCloud☁️

🚨 Who controls the future of farming?

#BigTech is betting 💰billions on AI, cloud platforms, precision tools.

But this is:
⚠️driving farmers into debt
⚠️locking in high-cost systems
⚠️concentrating control over food.

#Innovation isn’t neutral.

📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

#HeadInTheCloud☁️

HEAD IN THE CLOUD - IPES-Food report NEW IPES-Food report examining corporate-led digitalization of farming and its impacts on power, dependency, and sustainability – and highlighting farmer-led innovations building resilient food system...

🚨Just launched: #HeadInTheCloud ☁️

Who controls #innovation in agriculture?

BigTech + BigAg are reshaping farming through AI & digital platforms - investing 💰billions.

But we’re betting on the wrong model.

Let’s reclaim innovation for people & the planet.

📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

Can history help us to understand Trump’s protectionism?

Check out Eric Helleiner's new paper on whether historical comparisons can fully capture the nature Trumpian protectionism and what that means for understanding this current moment.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

🚨 Tomorrow: we launch HEAD IN THE CLOUD ☁️

Corporate-led digital tech is reshaping #agriculture at speed.

But who sets the agenda? Who benefits? What’s at risk?

💻 Join our webinar to launch this landmark report
📅 25 Feb | 14:00 UTC

🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#FoodSystems

🚨 Tomorrow: we launch HEAD IN THE CLOUD ☁️

Corporate-led digital tech is reshaping #agriculture at speed.

But who sets the agenda? Who benefits? What’s at risk?

💻 Join our webinar to launch this landmark report
📅 25 Feb | 14:00 UTC

🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#FoodSystems

Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits President’s move, which also seeks ‘immunity’ for makers, faces backlash from health advocates and Maha coalition

Confluence of glyphosate news: the US executive order on glyphosate, Bayer offering to settle lawsuits, and the upcoming US Supreme Court decision on whether US states can have their own more stringent rules on glyphosate. Hmmm.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

✨Celebrating 10 years of IPES-Food | IPES-Food news In IPES-Food's latest newsletter: ✨Celebrating 10 years of IPES-Food - and 10 years of putting food systems on the global agenda | Join the launch webinar for our latest report HEAD IN THE CLOUD.

Our latest newsletter is out 👇

✨ 10 years of IPES-Food – a reflection from our co-chairs
💻 Launching HEAD IN THE CLOUD
⭐ 2025 highlights: fossil fuels, geopolitics & corporate power
📺 @orfc.bsky.social sessions now online

Read it here:
mailchi.mp/ipes-food/ne...