“#Power is often absent from conversations about food systems.”— Olivier De Schutter, @ipes-food.org These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation. Explore more powerful quotes ⬇️ 📩 Subscribe to hear more from the convening—coming soon: bit.ly/GA_subscribe

Health and place – my journey www.itg.be/en/health-st... #GeospatialHealth #GISchat #geosky

Absolutely and totally sick

Thanks! It is a great tool for PhD students because it helps leverage a novel geospatial dataset. We hope folks will find it helpful. A week from the launch we have a lot of interest from international financial institutions.

1/ 🚀Big Update❗❗ Last year we published @NatCities, a systematic analysis of how countries are organized around multiple urban centres. That geospatial dataset is very complex. So we just launched the City-Region Explorer🔎... an easy to use platform for analysis. 🧵 #EconSky #Geography #GISChat

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...

Want a cheap & sustainable healthy diet? New preprint confirms that less expensive options generally emit less GHGs. Main exception is animal source foods. The least emitting healthy diets cost ~$7/day and emit 0.7 kg CO2e, while actual choices cost ~$10 and emit 2.4 kg. arxiv.org/abs/2505.24457

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

SAVE THE DATE❕❕ June 3rd📅 Link to register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Link to join: fao.zoom.us/s/9833663912...

This posting will close in two2️⃣days... ⏳ Please consider applying or distribute in your network. This is a great job, working on major agrifood issues Topic changes yearly and you interact with world experts on a given theme. Our team also has a good publication record in peer-reviewed journals.

Deadline May 8th. 💢 Join FAO's State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Team 💢 Exciting opportunity! 👀 Ideal candidates combine strong analytical skills with expertise in agrifood systems and excellent communication abilities. jobs.fao.org/careersectio...

@jennxer.bsky.social opens the True Cost Accounting Global Summit, hosted by @fao.org! As Jenn said in her opening remarks: "This is our moment to align, commit, and act. The future of food systems depends on it." #TCAGlobalSummit2025 #scalingtca

New paper uses lowest-cost healthy diets in each country plus alternative definitions of other basic needs to measure the extent and depth of global poverty. Great work from @jonasstl.bsky.social & coauthors @unigoettingen.bsky.social, much needed for #TeachEcon #EconSky & #FoodSky

A real pity. Farmers are not happy, and children will lose out on a healthier diet. www.morningagclips.com/usda-cancels...

The UN Statistical Commission #UN56SC has just formally adopted the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) score as a global diet quality indicator. Measurement is a first step for action, using #FoodPricesForNutrition and other data to lower costs, improve access, and provide healthy diets for all.

Happy to share this piece I wrote (with input from @ipes-food.org colleagues) as a counter to the recent call for more technological 'moonshots' to end hunger. No amount of technology can ensure people are well fed - we need political will to tackle inequities theconversation.com/only-politic...

My thanks to Preet for leading this effort. Great collaboration and happy to see this out!

As more people join Bluesky, I am updating my starter pack on food systems with a focus on research and policy... go.bsky.app/LKK6nBq

#Repurposing and #budget_optimization belong to an important agenda and governments need technical support to bring it down to implementation, to which @fao.org ao has paid attention. Thank you @iisd.bsky.social for helping raise awareness on this important issue.

New Countdown Initiative paper which: - Presents the first indicator monitoring update across 5 themes (more below) - Provides an expert elicitation of interactions across indicators. - Reviews literature & country case studies Paper: tinyurl.com/CountdownMS Website: tinyurl.com/countdownweb...

New blog! To help non-specialists understand food policies, we created an AI-based chatbot. Users can ask questions about food policy in Bangladesh and get plain-language answers back, drawing on 28 policy documents. Check out the blog explaining it here: www.gainhealth.org/media/news/c...

A little bit of recharging before kicking off 2025... with homemade cookies on the slopes. Happy New Year to everyone!!

Ahead of #Christmas our last @fao.org Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 24-07 “The opportunity cost of not #repurposing public expenditure in food and agriculture in sub‑Saharan African countries”. Background to #SOFI2024. @andrcatt.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.4060/cd37...

How do public policies stack up? Is the impact of two policies larger than the sum of its parts? We look at this in the context of food - labels + price policies - & find they are *extremely* sub-additive. Also, labels do way better than prices. Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

Great title for a paper... where Claude Shannon meets Milan Kundera's worldview. And it raises some interesting points.

Making American food healthy again, one step at a time: the @fda.gov published its updated rule on which products can have the word "healthy" on their label, at www.fda.gov/healthy. Regulating labels is good -- next step, regulating contents? #FoodSky #FoodEconomics @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social

New paper by several us as part of the #BlueFoods Assessment. We analyze nutrition-sensitive climate risk to micronutrients across production systems. By 2041–2060, 50 countries are projected to face high domestic climate risk for 2 or more micronutrients. Check it out: shorturl.at/OMfk9

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Through a deliberative research and consultation process, we have developed guidance on strengthening #science–policy interfaces (SPIs) for #agrifood systems at the national level. @fao.org openknowledge.fao.org/items/887fb7...

What do we know about the future of measuring #foodsystems? With Bianca Carducci and Michael Puma we unpack some ideas for the new generation of food system indicators and the #FoodSystemsCountdownInitiative (FSCI). Thanks to @ifpri.org for the opportunity to publish this piece! shorturl.at/HqYET

AI has changed the way we do research. It's exciting... but what are the risks? "The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less." 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The term 'left-behind' conceals more than it reveals. #Europe’s vulnerable #regions differ: some bear scars of deindustrialisation, others face demographic collapse, while rural areas grapple with isolation. @sanne_velthuis et al. show that policy must grasp this complexity. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

The efficiency of protein transition to more-plant based diet to reduce the ecological impacts of food systems is highly dependent on a systemic vision. Most of the present narratives fall a long way short of the required ambition. A paper with Océane Duluins. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Very interesting! This theory paper has some serious implications for those of us who use the World Bank's International Poverty Line in applied work... #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The FT misses the mark here. Tackling the harms of UPFs is not just about helping consumers exercise willpower to resist them. It requires government willpower to pursue stronger regulations on Big Food corporations and to counter corporate lobby power. www.ft.com/content/cf42...

Excellent piece by @clairek.bsky.social showing how big meat companies squeeze out smaller processors & in turn smaller-scale livestock producers. In this case, global meat giant JBS leveraging its power in the rendering sector - www.foodandpower.net/latest/mopac...

Bans on junk food advertising to kids...incoming! - ads for unhealthy food or drink products to be restricted. - 13 food categories targeted. - assessed using govt. nutrient profiling model. www.bmj.com/content/387/... @katfoodjenner.bsky.social @bmj.com

Important work. Congrats to the authors! @lidderpr.bsky.social

In August 2022 I asked DALL-E how agricultural automation would look like in the style of various artists. Two years later these AI-generated images remain impressive. They convey the many potential forms of automation, some bucolic, others dystopian. 1/24. Utagawa Hiroshige

Global food #trade brought big benefits. Food availability more than kept up with population growth. Producer nations created #jobs & boosted #export income, and nations ill-suited for food production or suffering from #droughts or floods gained #foodsecurity... (1/x) doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Very interesting!! Bottom line... Increases 📈 in countries’ participation in global food value chains are linked to 📈 in obesity rates when countries use intermediate imported inputs to produce and process food (backward linkages).

🤝 Change begins with collaboration. The #UN Committee on World Food Security (#CFS) offers tools to align philanthropy with global #food policies—advancing equitable, sustainable solutions. Read why the CFS matters for funders via @foodtank.bsky.social: foodtank.com/news/2024/12... #FoodSystems

What should (and shouldn’t) the UK take from the Danish tax on GHG emissions from agriculture? As the UK Government announces this week a new food (& farming) strategy, one pillar about a credible plan to decarbonise food and farming. Read our new blog ieep.uk/news/blog-wh...

A quick shot at a starter pack for folks interested in a food systems perspective related policies. Please help improve it by suggesting others to add! Diversity of views welcome. Main criterion for inclusion is that people actively post on the topic. go.bsky.app/LKK6nBq

New FAO #SOFA2024 report shows once more the huge hidden costs of poor diets. Leading dietary risks for NCDs are: too low consumption of wholegrains, fruit & vegetables and too high consumption of sodium (+ red and processed meat in industrial agrifood systems). openknowledge.fao.org/bitstreams/9...

Interesting post blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

1/4 Ever wondered what Von Thünen and Christaller might come up with if they had access to modern data and computing power? #EconSky #OpenData #Geography #GISChat Our recent paper on multi-tier city-regions offers a glimpse into that intriguing possibility. 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

1/2 Far too many in the🌍 are one shock🌩️ away from food insecurity. 👇 What is the impact of poverty, income inequality & diet costs on the share of population who can't afford, or is at risk of not affording, energy-sufficient and healthy diets❓ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌍 Environmental, social and health hidden costs of agrifood systems vary substantially across countries. 👉Targeted, context-specific strategies are key to tackling these challenges and driving transformative change. www.fao.org/publications...

Big Food is in trouble. 👀 My latest for @foodfixco.bsky.social: foodfix.co/concern-abou...