Systems science is key to identifying/mitigating discrimination in food systems. Fantastic work led by the brilliant @trmoore.bsky.social w/D. Krobath, Y. Chang Chusan, U. Sanga, @patrickwebb.bsky.social, A. Cuevas, H. Roland, B. Grant, C. Economos, V. Nicholson, S. Kumanyika. rdcu.be/eGoGc

Today's mid-August harvest. 🤗

What's the story...?

Basketflowers. They close up at night, only to unfold the next morning. Delicate, despite their prickly looks.

My helianthus (perennial sunflower) and amaranth are luxuriating in this August's New England heat. And the pollinators too.

Useful transparency on gaps left despite WHO's updated 2023 guidence on management of child wasting. A lack of evidence on the effectiveness of prevention interventions still hinders appropriate action. Free access: gh.bmj.com/content/10/S...

Our CRT in Uganda tested ways to improve water and food safety. One arm nudged the adoption of new technologies, and it significantly reduced water E.coli. But not sustained, and no shift in mycotoxins. We need demand for a 'clean food environment' to support nutrition. doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...

Ironic that our paper on supply chain optimization to enhance cost-effectiveness of USAID's food aid operations gets published...after the demise of USAID. 🙁 But if anyone in State Department now in charge of crisis response wants to know more, reach out. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

As consumers and policymakers worry about the cost of healthy diets, we analyze market prices in Bihar to optimize diets for children and families. Government analysts considering subsidies or taxes on key foods should use such tools to determine cost-effective outcomes and tradeoffs.

I didn't expect this when I went to get my ladder! But life always finds a way...

Welcome back FEWS NET. The latest update on global food insecurity makes for hard reading, as usual: fews.net/global/speci.... Up to 45% shortfall in rain from long term trends in pastoral zones of Ethiopia and Sudan. Likely flooding in Kenya. But humanitarian aid cut like never before....

With 2.3 billion people moderately or severely food insecure in 2023, resources to #finance improved #food security and #nutrition are seriously constrained. This paper reviews financial flows in the conext of estimates for the cost of ending #hunger. www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe...

Interesting new paper from #GLOPAN on Emerging EU policy impacts on African food systems: www.glopan.org/new-technica...

Our new paper shows how critical it is to use reliable data to achieve effective targeting and use of development resources: doi.org/10.1038/s414.... Sadly, the source of these data was terminated a few weeks ago. Draw your own conclusions...

So excited to see our article in @natcomms.nature.com, led by Valentin Seidler & w/ Edson Utazi, @sluckene.bsky.social , Gregor Zens, Maksym Bodarenko, Abigail Smith (@alleghenycollege.bsky.social alum!), Sarah Bradley, Andy Tatem, and @patrickwebb.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

During the Steering Committee meeting, HLPE-FSN experts visited the UM6P impressive campus & innovation spaces, discussing applied research to support resilient food systems with students, faculty members & local stakeholders. @suwa-eisenmann.bsky.social @patrickwebb.bsky.social @mjamiot.bsky.social

🧵The HLPE-FSN expresses its sincere appreciation to CFS Chairperson Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile for the insightful and constructive discussion on the future of food security and nutrition, today, during the HLPE-FSN Steering Committee meeting at UM6P, in Morocco.

The HLPE-FSN is meeting at UM6P, Morocco, to advance its work on global food security. Discussions include the upcoming report "Building resilient food systems", responsible investment, key challenges & critical issues shaping the future. Grateful to UM6P staff for their support!

England suffered the largest decline in life expectancy improvement across Europe between 2011 and 2019. Hmmm...now who was in power in England from 2011 through 2019 (and beyond)? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

And over at Wholefoods, nothing to see here...

And BREXIT was sold as a 'good idea'? What fools... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Meanwhile... www.ft.com/content/6bad...

Meanwhile... www.ft.com/content/311a...

Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.

Meanwhile, egg prices.

Lovely day snowshoeing in the forest. Nothing else of consequence happening today, right?

Actually, it should read 10,000, not 1,000!

Proud to note that our 2013 paper in the Lancet series on nutrition has reached 1,000 citations in Google Scholar. Not a lot, maybe, for earth science and climate papers, but quite a lot for a single nutrition article. Great that it still has legs! lnkd.in/eR8KXMxy

Our new paper tracking process (or not) on food systems transformation globally using harmonized metrics. A valuable accountability mechanism: lnkd.in/ebRdbqim

Finally, some New England weather that allows for snow-shoeing. Yay!

Meanwhile, in Greeland...

An interesting historical fiction nicely put together: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm off to the couch. See you later. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Look up. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Totally agree. Leave.

Its well past time to stop calling it 'aid' and talking about productive investments in the world's future as a whole. This perverse strategy 'aids' no-one. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nice!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No, we're not.... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Emerging Threat of H5N1 to Human Health | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Afternoon in Le Guilvinec, Brittany. Crisply cold but wonderful with it.

I grew up mere steps from this historical and architectural marvel. Like so much in today's Britain, it has been allowed to decay. www.theguardian.com/global/2024/...

My last #FoodArchive post of the year: In this month's #FoodBytes, I highlight the range of obesity studies and their contradictions, the IPBES report, tipping point naysayers, and COP fatigue. Check it out! See ya'll next year! shorturl.at/OHlxL

Festive London. Always fun!

What an astoundingly stupid own goal! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Evidence is abundant that #agroecology can produce resilient, healthy, abundant food while protecting biodiversity, carbon, livelihoods & soil. Overcoming #hunger must be about providing access to food - not further industrialising the countryside (while BigAg profits).

We must account for the costs of #biodiversity loss from agriculture & other activities; as @pammcelwee.bsky.social tells the FT "We pass those costs on, whether it’s to insurance companies or to poor and marginalised people who are suffering from these pollution burdens or the malnutrition burdens”