Why does #finance matter in #foodsystems? Great question! If you want to find out the answer, don't miss the Hothouse's July #SavingTheWorld webinar, with @katesievert.bsky.social. 📅 17th July 2025 🕧 12:30pm AEST 🔗 hothouse.anu.edu.au/event/why-fi... @preventioncentre.bsky.social

"This judgment sets a critical precedent. Local planning authorities can no longer treat each factory farm unit as isolated when together they create a systemic environmental crisis." 🙌 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Political corruption, conflicts of interest, taking public money, fixing prices, ecological harm, escaping conviction - this is the consistent story of Big Food and Ag companies - they aren't just 'more efficient' - they got that way by stepping on others www.ft.com/content/d293...

France has become the 1st country to tax fast fashion garments, made by the likes of Temu & Shein. As the world’s biggest consumer of textiles per capita in the world, our research shows that Australia could implement a similar scheme to reduce our mountainous issue of fashion waste. #auspol

🇺🇳 Treaty on Transnational Corporations and their Supply Chains with regards to Human Rights 🌐 Global Campaign to Reclaim People Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity ✊🏽 https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org #bindingtreaty #stopcorporateimpunity #stopTNCimpunity

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Happy to share this new article just published in Food Policy journal! We show that concentrated corporate power matters for people's agency within food systems. Open access! Highlights and abstract below

Another excellent & helpful paper from Jennifer Clapp & colleagues explaining why excessive corporate power in food systems (& beyond) needs to be addressed. Highly recommend! May be of interest @criticaltakes.bsky.social @katesievert.bsky.social @hfsaus.bsky.social

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist. That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations. How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔 www.notus.org/health-scien...

taking the opportunity to shamelessly promoting my research on corporate power and UPFs off the back of @theguardian.com's investigative work we need to start thinking about industry strategies in terms of a wider political economy of delay www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I used a lot of FOIs for a research project on multistakeholder partnerships and the role of the FDF - hard to think of a trade association that’s been more effective at lobbying policy makers www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Great to see this get the attention it deserves @theguardian.com @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @rob-percival.bsky.social @andrewgregory.com

Israeli leaders could literally say "we will genocide until there is no more genocide to be genocided" and the world will still be like "gosh it's so complicated"

👀Absolutely fascinating insight into the tone the UK food industry feels it can take when lobbying public authorities to amend food policy to their liking. Reads more like demands of a disappointed boss than an industry stakeholder talking to govt authorities…

I spent the half-year working on this investigation. Extraordinary influence of UPF lobby behind the scenes. 'UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms' 👇 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Trade war bites agrifood markets: China cancels 12k tonnes of US pork orders and seeks to buy instead from Brazil. www.feedstuffs.com/market-news/...

JBS - the world's biggest meat company - has been approved for NYSE listing, a move that is likely to exacerbate deforestation in the Amazon @katesievert.bsky.social and colleagues have done a fascinating analysis on how the company has become so powerful www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Embattled Meat Giant JBS Cleared for NYSE Listing, Was Trump’s Largest Inauguration Donor Read the latest from the Food Policy Tracker. ➡️ buff.ly/Mk2Un24

And if you were wondering why the state-supported growth of a Brazilian meat company might matter to anyone else ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New on Critical Takes: How "national champions" from Brazil and China are becoming global giants in the meat industry. criticaltakes.org/society-and-... Fascinating take from @katesievert.bsky.social and co-authors on power shifts in an industry with huge effects on health, workers and nature.

We wrote a piece on our national champions paper for Critical Takes! Check it out criticaltakes.org/society-and-... 🥩 @diarmidos.bsky.social @ipes-food.org

One week until this #SavingTheWorld webinar with guest Professor @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, hosted by the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. 📆17th April 🕥10:30am AEST 🔗Register for the Zoom link: hothouse.anu.edu.au/event/titans... @anuregnet.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @anuagrifood.bsky.social

🔥new commentary in World Nutrition 'Use your Power' worldnutritionjournal.org/index.php/wn...

The paper is partly a riposte to the industrial meat lobby, which has (successfully) appropriated NOVA to entrench meat-rich diets and their vested interests. We show that industrial animal exploitation and ultra-processing share common system drivers, linked to financialisation and corporatisation.

🔈 Excited to share our new paper, led by the brilliant @katesievert.bsky.social, in which we encourage a common framing & approach for addressing unsustainable production & consumption of both ultra-processed foods 🍩🥤 & intensively produced animal-source foods 🥩 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ultra-processed foods and industrial meat are two sides of the same coin: products of food systems shaped by financial actors, shareholder value maximisation, and corporate consolidation. Check out our new paper 👇

Thrilled to see our ecological regulation paper on food systems out! @katesievert.bsky.social has it nicely stitched up in her thread!

A busy week with another newly published paper 📣 Our work in Food Ethics tackles the financialisation of food systems—showing how ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and intensively produced animal-source foods (ASFs) share common structural drivers. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks for sharing Kate, here's our post bsky.app/profile/ipes...

🚨State-backed meat giants are reshaping global #foodsystems —at huge cost. With massive subsidies, JBS, WH Group & others: 🌍Drive deforestation ⚖️Dodge antitrust rules 💰 Exploit tax loopholes 🍽️ Worsen food access 📢 Time to rein them in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MeatMonopolies

And if you'd like to peruse the visualisations of our paper up close and personal, Phil has put together a blog post: philhoward.net/2025/03/18/n...

As predatory markets tighten their grip and the charade of democracy is abandoned, commons will become even more indispensable. I'm thrilled to say that a significantly revised, updated edition of my book ‘Think Like a Commoner’ is now out, today! Details at thinklikeacommoner.com.

Just published! 📢 Our new paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies examines how national champion policies have reshaped global meat supply chains—concentrating power, limiting competition, and benefiting transnational investors. 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

♀️🌍Women grow, sell, buy & cook our #food. Yet they’re excluded from land, finance & key decisions shaping #foodsystems. Gender equality is essential for just #foodsystems. 🚨If we sideline women, we skew food systems toward BigAg profit, instead of feeding people. #Internationalwomensday #IWD2025

🌾"#Agroecology extends to changes across the legal system... I perceive #ecocidelaw to have a potentially really useful role to play in that" @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Association's @rob-percival.bsky.social at a recent #ORFC event. Watch the event! 👉 orfc.org.uk/session/tran... #StopEcocide

In 2023, I participated in the first ever Future Leaders Program at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. It was an incredible experience from start to finish, and I loved learning from such a diverse group of researchers. And we have published a paper together! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Editorial by our very own Priscila Machado - worth a read!

Excited to have our first member event for 2025 - guest speaker Christian Torres is speaking to us about the adoption of front-of-pack warning labels in Mexico

Newspeak for Scientists! Marion Nestle shares news that words like "women", 'female', 'racism', 'systemic' and 'political' may now get your NSF grant canned. Luckily "unwhite" and "unman" are just a find-and-replace away. Brave new words.

“Hunger persists because we allow injustice to endure. If we are serious about ending it, we need bold political action, not just scientific breakthroughs.”

Important piece by our @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social Only political will can end world #hunger & confront its major drivers : conflict, poverty, inequality, economic shocks & escalating climate change. There's enough food to go around. But a lack of political will to get it to the hungry.

"[RFJ]..will make legitimate critiques of how we grow and process food appear crackpot—affirming a narrative that Big Ag and Big Food have promoted for decades....Rather than pushing food production in a healthier direction, Kennedy could bolster the status quo." www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...

Debt owed to private lenders by lower-income countries has quadrupled since 2000. Private lenders, like banks & hedge funds, charge extortionate interest rates & under existing global debt rules, can refuse to participate in debt relief negs when countries are in crisis. cafod.org.uk/about-us/pol...

President Donald Trump declared that a global corporate minimum tax deal ‘has no force or effect’ in the US, effectively pulling America out of the landmark 2021 arrangement negotiated by the Biden administration with nearly 140 countries reut.rs/4hlEkcP

As expected, Trump signed an EO withdrawing from the WHO and also ending negotiations in the Pandemic Treaty and IHR amendments. It also calls for a review, rescind, and replace the 2024 U.S. Global Health Security Strategy. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Hunger is political—it's not a technological problem. Technology can’t fix who decides who eats. Technology can't uproot the deep inequalities that keep people hungry. You can’t invent your way out of inequality. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Immensely proud of my PhD student Tanita Northcott (at Deakin Uni) for having this work published in Nature Food. It's a comprehensive analysis of how governments are regulating UPFs, finding a skew towards voluntary and information-based measures: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Just joined BlueSky and couldn't be happier to share this as my first post! Thanks @belindareeve.bsky.social 🎉 Thrilled to have this paper out!

📢Job opportunity! Join our NHMRC-funded project, ‘Commercial Determinants of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health in Remote Stores’ as a Research Fellow based at UQ. Lead qual research, collaborate with communities & drive change. FT until Sept 26. tinyurl.com/38cajdwn

"The food system is not an algebra problem where the aggregate amount of available calories determines global land use. The reasons why people get fed (or not) and why forests get cut down are driven by politics and power, not yields." 👇

Thought I'd have a go at this starter pack thing...pls share and let me know if you'd like to join! go.bsky.app/3vj4Fnb