Please join us! For the launch of the Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health 🌏 Tickets are SOLD OUT for the London launch event. But some tickets are still available to join us online via Zoom. 🔗 Click here to register: uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Ultra-processed foods are reshaping global diets, health, & the planet. Join us for the global launch of a new Series on UPFs & Human Health on 19 Nov. 🌍 Experts will unpack the science, policy, & politics of #UPFs. Register to attend 👉 tinyurl.com/3h2t5mr4

How's this for a World Food Day partnership!? www.nestlehealthscience.us/stories/nest...

new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world

How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it? 🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online) Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs 🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...

How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it? 🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online) Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs 🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...

“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.” Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation. Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Looking forward to speaking at this online event tomorrow on corporate power in agrifood systems - info below⤵️

Calling all food governance scholars! Please check out this call for papers for a special issue on rebuilding global food governance. More info below 👇

Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Absolutely heart breaking 💔 I can only imagine the frustration and pain parents and health workers are experiencing watching their young children starve. Let’s be clear: the weaponisation of food by the Israeli state is a war crime under international law. It’s mass murder and an act of genocide.

🔥 Powerful new report just out from UNICEF - Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children. Exposes rising problem of ultra-processed foods in child food environments, the industry behind it, and what to do about it. Please absolutely read and share 👇 www.unicef.org/reports/feed...

Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts theconversation.com/vape-brands-...

FoodFix bonus edition: David Kessler, who served as FDA commissioner during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, once took on Big Tobacco. Now he’s taking on Big Food. foodfix.co/former-fda-c...

Excellent proposal 🙌

🧵3/3 This is timely given the current work in Australia to restrict the marketing of infant formula and what the formula industry has to say about it. You can read what they are saying about the matter (publicly) here ➡️ www.accc.gov.au/public-regis... and ➡️ www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

🧵2/3 The NZ govt bowed to lobbying, departing from the revised standard to limit misleading labels on formula tins. Evidence of many meetings between formula execs and NZ ministers. Strong regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hot off the press! 🔥 our new case study on political lobbying by the baby food industry and how it influenced New Zealand governments decision to opt out of regulations intended to protect infant health. Please see below for the full article 👇 with congrats to Naomi Hull for her leadership on this!

Timely editorial by @TheLancetEndo highlights need for policies on ultra-processed foods. @carlos-monteiro.bsky.social & me agree, adding that policies targeting ultra-processed diets as a whole are realistic & urgent—especially in regions not yet dominated by them www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Great paper by Dori Patay and colleagues...on getting beyond the clichés of transformation to show what it will really take! www.nature.com/articles/s43... @nature.com @philbakernz.bsky.social

Hot off the press, @mathisenroger.bsky.social @philbakernz.bsky.social Recommendations include Adopt legal measures to give full effect to the Code as opposed to relying on voluntary measures. Prioritise strengthening comprehensive maternity protection, cultivate intersectoral policy environments.

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 !

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

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!

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

first in our series for the @foodequitycentre.bsky.social featuring the incredible @philbakernz.bsky.social ...watch this space for more and thanks to our amazing filmmakers @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !

Kenya's competition authority looked into animal feed market and found: - 4 vertically integrated firms control over half the market - Feed prices are up to 40% higher than international markets - This leads to lower farmer income and higher food prices www.shambacentre.org/why-competit...

New study just out 🔥 Kenya's 2012 Breast Milk Substitutes Act is a powerful example of how women’s political leadership - backed by male allies, global advocacy networks, and policy windows - can overcome corporate opposition to protect breastfeeding. Please read more below 👇

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...

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

📰 just published in Journal of Colleges of Medicine of South Africa: SA health professional associations urged to end commercial formula industry sponsorship doi.org/10.4102/jcms... @lori-lake.bsky.social @melissamialon.bsky.social @naomihull.bsky.social @helengray.bsky.social @drtomori.bsky.social

Happy to share more wonderful research led by Kim Anastasiou and team, this paper on the environmental impacts of ultraprocessed beverages. Check it out below 👇

📣Excited to have my final PhD study published! This work aimed to quantify the environmental impacts of ultra-processed beverages and analyse their impacts under different policy-based scenarios. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨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

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....

Ultra-processed babies: are toddler snacks one of the great food scandals of our time?

An important read - time to step it up Australia!

Australian Government urged to step up for health amid Trump Administration’s “swift and unrelenting” disruption www.croakey.org/australian-g... Important article by Jason Staines - with thanks to all who contributed #AusPol

🚨 More than 80 independent nutrition scientists have signed an open letter raising concerns over an industry-backed effort to redefine the Nova food classification system—the very framework that has helped expose the harms of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). 🧵1/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1SDWK...

🚨 More than 80 independent nutrition scientists have signed an open letter raising concerns over an industry-backed effort to redefine the Nova food classification system—the very framework that has helped expose the harms of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). 🧵1/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1SDWK...

Read the blog and full report on why the political economy of food and nutrition systems is so important: www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/the... Co-authors @philbakernz.bsky.social, @fao.org colleagues @nicknisbett.bsky.social, @jessgordon.bsky.social and others @ids.ac.uk

Entrenching the two party system might be good for the major parties & their donors - but it's not good for us, our kids & grandkids. To counter this let's grow the cross bench! Start here > linktr.ee/CommunityInd... Subscribe, volunteer, donate & share! #auspol

As their primary vote continues to fall & Australians wake up to the fact that all the issues we face are due to decades of putting their needs above ours - expect the major parties to increasingly circle the wagons to entrench their power - as we've seen today with electoral reform #auspol

🔥 Big news for public health, mums and babies in Australia! The ACCC has denied the Infant Nutrition Council's bid to keep the baby food industry's self-regulatory marketing agreement (MAIF Agreement). Here's why that matters 🧵⬇️

It was a pleasure to contribute to this new Institute of Development Studies & UN FAO report "Development and Piloting of a Tool for Conducting Political Economy Analysis of Agrifood Systems and Food Security and Nutrition Policies and Programmes." 👇 opendocs.ids.ac.uk/articles/rep...

In 2020, when first threatening to withdraw from WHO, Trump claimed that funds would be redirected to 'urgent global health needs' now he's not even bothering with this hollow rhetoric, which probably gives a sense of how turbulent global health politics might become

and worth flagging the consequences / implications of this potential black hole in WHO financing WHO has already created a foundation to attract funding from business and private philanthropy and these efforts to expand private sector financing are likely to accelerate

Also makes me think of this excellent paper by Kadee Russ, @philbakernz.bsky.social and colleagues: movendi.ngo/science-dige...

Hot off the press!🔥Our new @naturefood.bsky.social paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods? We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...