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bhavanishankar.bsky.social
Professor@University of Sheffield. Food systems, nutrition, sustainability, equity, economics, policy & interdisciplinarity; plants, rabbits, cool jazz, languages. Learning Welsh.
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‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Development economics has seen a huge renaissance in the last couple of decades, and yet developing country representation in authorship remains disturbingly low. The global distribution of authorship in economics journals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a cash transfer that increased prices? I spoke with @voxdev.bsky.social about what recent research tells us about the price effects of cash transfers and how to reconcile various findings that at times appear to be at odds with each other. @cgdev.org

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'The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, And everyday the paper boy brings more...'

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New Blog: Food markets at the forest margins in Keonjhar, Odisha sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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What, me worry? #easylikesundaymorning

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Ouagadougou fights climate change with....vegetables! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#easylikeSundaymorning

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This is as it should be. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ja...

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Indonesia is poised to launch a massive free school meals programme, placing improved child nutrition at the heart of their long-term economic growth strategy. @anhacademy.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6920...

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Professor Andrew Dorward, renowned scholar in agricultural development economics, passed away a few days back. A small tribute to him below. @anhacademy.bsky.social www.anh-academy.org/community/bl...

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David Lodge captured the essence of British academic life so accurately and funnily in his campus novels. But he also wrote funny & moving non-campus books about the human, and particularly, the British condition. Thanks for the joy you gave your readers! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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'Fredo, I love you...' and 'You broke my heart, Fredo'. #learningwelsh #duolingo

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Food markets we've visited recently feature Handiya, the fermented rice drink. The fermentation starter/accelerator is Bakhar (picture) - a rice+herb mixture dried until it resembles whitish pebbles. Handiya has less than 2% alcohol content, but puts everyone is a mellow mood!

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This is cool work debunking longstanding myths regarding the geography of diets and longevity. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...

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The junk food crisis harming Britain’s children - on.ft.com/4gRUMky via @FT

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INFUSION project and @brlps_jeevika are piloting the innovative concept of healthy rural food markets, 'Didi Haat'. Last week we were in Telhara in Nalanda, Bihar, planning the first haat with our design partners Design Jatra.

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The inequality in resources for competitive exams & higher education in India is a debilitating one. @brlps_jeevika colleagues have been working tirelessly on a 'Didi ki Library' intervention that is making impressive strides in addressing this disparity. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

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Tap your phone to buy a cauliflower. Simples. - Islampur haat, Nalanda District, Bihar

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WARNING! Graphic images of luscious vegetables at food markets - at Islampur haat, Nalanda District, Bihar.

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Birmingham airport has the Xmas spirit going (volume)!

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Some lovely words from Richard Murphy to end the work week. #poetry

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And still they lead me back To the long and winding road Cerdded mynyddoedd y Cambrian. Walking the western edge of the Cambrian mountains.

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Our student union at University of Sheffield runs a brilliant zero waste shop, offering packaging-free refills of breakfast cereals, nuts, snacks, detergent, etc.

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More power to Professor Bishop. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The best post-election political analysis I’ve seen.

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Some Mary Oliver on this threshold of winter.

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Very cool, a train cooperative! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Our new #Fellowships from @anhacademy.bsky.social offer a year of funding to bring recent #research into #policy decisions in #SubSaharanAfrica or #SouthAsia, via placement in a policy organization. Aim is healthier diets, less food loss & waste, climate & equity. www.anh-academy.org/science-poli...

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