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For anyone interested in gender gaps in full-time university faculty, this analysis of Canada will be of interest. The bottom line is no surprise: they are still widely present universityaffairs.ca/features/wom...?

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The USDA says egg prices could increase 41% this year. Meanwhile, the industry is more consolidated than ever and revenues are rising. Cal-Maine Foods controls a fifth of the egg market. Its revenue jumped 82% in a year—driven by an "increase in the net average selling price."

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Yay for Jesse Marsch: "If I have one message to our President, it’s lay off the ridiculous rhetoric about Canada being the 51st state..As an American, I’m ashamed of the arrogance and disregard we’ve shown one of our historically oldest, strongest and most loyal allies” www.cbc.ca/sports/socce...

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Mexico forced by trade tribunal to import #GMO corn because the objections are "not based on science." De veras? Two top Mexican scientists (including former director of national science agency) speaking on this tinyurl.com/3pntut95

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Wow - huge move: "Mexico's lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved a constitutional reform to ban the planting of genetically modified (GM) corn" www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

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It appears to be podcast season! Grateful for the opportunity to chat with Sarah Toms at UNCTAD for their weekly TradeCast with an episode on the future of food, including discussion of trade inequities & territorial markets, and agroecology www.podbean.com/ew/pb-7xbv8-...

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Not even Trump's "“Art of the Deal” can vanquish Europe’s Art of the Meal." Excellent article on the many reasons the EU won't increase agricultural imports from the US by @alessandroford.bsky.social and @thisisbartosz.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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Excited to dig into @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social's new book, revealing how a few transnational corporations came to control the farm inputs sector, shaping tech, policy, and the social & ecological impacts of industrial ag. 🌱 A must-read! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... @ipes-food.org #FoodSystems

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Together with @peternewell.bsky.social, I have a new paper out in RIPE. In this paper, we explore why and how the use of fossil hydrocarbons for non-energy purposes (as raw material for synthetics) changes how we should approach the climate crisis. 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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"Unilateral private control of the federal government has never been exercised in this way, even by 19th-century robber barons." Excellent article by @ranaforoohar.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/63a4...

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In 2021, the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced that the country would adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. This was justified to promote ﬁnancial inclusion, increasing remittance flows, and enhancing development. How did this turn out? 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The assault on science intensifies.

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Canada supplies more than 80 per cent of the potash fertilizer used on U.S. farms - and it's US farmers who will bear the cost of US tariffs on Canadian goods www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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If we won’t collectively feed children because it is a good thing to do, perhaps people can be convinced that it is good for the economy www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

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Really enjoyed my conversation with MIT's TILclimate podcast to talk about the fossil energy in food systems with a focus on all the steps from farm to bite of a bag of corn chips! #foodsystems #fossilfuels #climatechange #agroecology tilclimate.simplecast.com/episodes/far...

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💡An insightful blog from ANH Academy member Jody Harris @justjody23.bsky.social on how evidence informs policy to tackle complex challenges in food systems, who has been working closely with the HLPE-CFS @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social. 🖇️ www.anh-academy.org/community/bl... #ANHAcademy #policy #science

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Had a great conversation with MIT's TILclimate Podcast about the #fossilfuels hidden in our food, with a focus on corn chips! Episode available as of today - at the link below and and other podcast platforms... climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e1-...

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Doug Ford's government reversed its plan to cut into a swath of protected land around Toronto, but with an RCMP investigation still underway, @emmamci.bsky.social looks at how the Greenbelt scandal is quietly shaping the 2025 Ontario election. #onpoli thenarwhal.ca/ontario-elec...

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Trumps attacks on reproductive health around the world (and health more generally, but make no mistake whose health his real target is - women) had me thinking about this piece @saraedavies.bsky.social & I wrote 5 (!) years ago academic.oup.com/isq/article/... Still holds

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Our new paper is out: "Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation". Co-authored with Siri Eriksen, Katharine Vincent, Lisa Schipper et al. it's open access in Global Environmental Change, so please do take a look: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New paper on resilient ag. by some of the leading thinkers in Agroecology: www.frontiersin.org/journals/agr...

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Congratulations to our @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social for publishing this important new book on the history of how a few giant firms came to dominate the farm sector today! If you care about how we got here, and the future of food, this is a must-read.

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🚜 Fossil fuels have shaped farming for 200 years, from tractors to digital ag. In this #FuelToFork episode, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social discusses the hidden costs of Big Ag's data-driven future. 🎧 tabledebates.org/fueltofork/e... Produced with @ipes-food.org & @tabledebates.bsky.social

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IPES-Food's latest newsletter just dropped | 🥣 Hunger is a political choice. 👉If you're not subscribed: get on it! eepurl.com/gbZrmL

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"First, massive, consolidated egg farms help spread disease and put more birds at risk of infection, and second, big egg corporations can abuse their market power to manipulate prices" Excellent analysis from @clairek.bsky.social on the costs of corporate concentration in the egg industry

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New this week from the MIT Press 📚👇

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Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!

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The world produces more than enough #food to feed everyone. Yet it is shamefully misallocated. BigAg firms make more profit by exporting food for animal feed, biofuels, or ultra-processed foods, than selling it to poor people. 1/3 of all food is simply wasted. ipes-food.org/only-politic...

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Deeply concerning on.ft.com/4hw03PH

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EU plans to use the impending trade war to advance environmental goals by blocking imports of certain foodstuffs grown using banned pesticides "Early targets could include US crops such as soyabeans which are grown using pesticides EU farmers are not allowed to use" www.ft.com/content/e488...

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Was a pleasure to speak with @tabledebates.bsky.social on the history of the industrialization of agriculture and the role of fossil fuels in that process for this #FueltoFork podcast episode 👇

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My 2 cents: Hunger persists because we allow injustice to endure. If we are serious about ending it, we need bold political action, not just scientific breakthroughs. Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it theconversation.com/only-politic...

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📢🆕 HLPE-FSN consultation! We invite you to share your insights and contribute to shaping the upcoming "Building resilient food systems" report. 📅 Deadline: 4 March 2025 www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe...

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Reciprocal to what? He's the one making the tariff threats! www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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With Trump and Musk driving U.S. policy, Kansas farmers have been played for suckers kansasreflector.com/2025/02/12/w...

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"The urgency of the hunger crisis has prompted 150 Nobel and World Food Prize laureates to call for “moonshot” technological and agricultural innovations ... However, they largely ignored hunger’s root causes — and the need to confront powerful entities and make courageous political choices."

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Copies of my new book arrived in the mail! (someone is really excited to check them out!) @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...

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

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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.

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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...

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“If there’s no immigrant labour, there’s no milk, no cheese, no butter, no ice cream” #Foodsystems are also at the centre of Trump & co's racist dehumanisation & deportation agenda.

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“If there’s no immigrant labour, there’s no milk, no cheese, no butter, no ice cream,” the dairy farmer said. “We’ll all have to go vegan.” US farmers wake up to the reality of the deportation agenda... If smaller farms go under, consolidation will inevitably follow... www.ft.com/content/e61e...

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Project 2025 recommended (pp. 295-97) eliminating most agricultural subsidies, including those for crop insurance. And now this. Will destroying farmers make food prices go up or down?

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