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My food thinkers talk is online now! Here are a few takeaways: 🌡️ We've underestimated climate impacts over time - including on food 💸 Research suggests climate food price inflation of 0.9-3% every year by 2035 we've already seen climate-flation in UK food bills 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjnO...

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Change (less meat, less dairy) will be hard, but there are health as well as environmental benefits. “The sooner the conversation can shift from whether change is needed to how it might best be fairly and equitably pursued, the better.” Says Prof Neil Ward theconversation.com/the-uk-must-...

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Climate change leads to food shortages and price shocks in Morocco as well as dietary and cultural change, with a more far reaching policy impact. Import duties are suspended and “the country has recently signed a deal to import up to 100,000 sheep from Australia.” www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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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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“The citizens’ panel were often ahead of even our advice on some of the things they were willing to consider,” she said. “They are interested and want to do their bit” - great but we also need policy to support change - eg invest in horticulture! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain has 7,000 fewer PE teachers since London 2012 Olympics, MPs told

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To a discussion on Civil Food Resilience and @proftimlang.bsky.social new report for the National Preparedness Commission, written with @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social alumni Natalie Neumann and Antony So.

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Truth to power. Well done, @martinmckee.bsky.social academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...

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#FoodSecurity - a huge issue. We urgently need to grow vastly more vegetables and fruit in the UK #CropDiversity #PublicHealth www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...

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Good... but heard such promises many many times before & will they provide the catering budgets for the higher quality ingredients and for local infrastructure & supply chains needed? #NFU @NFUPress #FarmersProtest @dp_food www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Some good local news to cheer in a generally depressing week. Small actions can reap rewards: Rewilding sees animals rebound in Hackney Marshes www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

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Good food policy news from Brazil - a trailblazer in developing policies that support sustainable diets. The accompaniment of tax breaks for horticulture & MPF production is exciting and one to watch!

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Great to have Tim Lang talk about Industrialisation of Food to our Food Policy Master's students in our Political Economy of food course. City, University of London @citystgeorges.bsky.social

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Great to see @hackneyfood.bsky.social here - those interested in food policy in the best London borough please follow!

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Great backgrounder on US food policy and why MAHA matters

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This.👇 "Cheap eggs created this problem in the first place"

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Brilliant to have Carolina Maciel talking to our MSc Food Policy students about global trade governance and law as part of our Political Economy of food module.

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"This moment is a test. How should our community react? The immediate result has been confusion, disruption, and disorientation, but the response cannot be dictated by fear or resignation. There is a need for focus, strategy, and—indeed—hope." www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

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🚨links below to important new @proftimlang.bsky.social report UK #foodsystems #foodpolicy

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Really important counter to the persistent narrative that we need to produce more food to feed the world - it’s diversity that is needed, and more investment in horticulture, legumes, nuts and seeds.

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The excellent Prof Tim Lang on @bbcradio4.bsky.social's Farming Today this AM, discussing his new report on food resilience & highlighting our reliance on big food companies to feed us during a crisis, rather than local pathways & infrastructure. From 00.18 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 1/4 🧵

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New report from our Emeritus Professor @ProfTimLang.bsky.social @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social

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New report from @ProfTimLang.bsky.social from @CityUniversityofLondon.bsky.social highlights need for urgent action to address serious lack of UK food resilience in face of increasing shocks. Whole society approach is needed www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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⌛One year ago today, the EU Commission proposed a 2040 emissions target Since then? ❌ No #ClimateLaw amendments ❌ No 2035 target ❌ No NDC We are tired of waiting! #ClimateActionNow #2040Target @caneurope.org 🔗https://caneurope.org/2040-communication-anniversary/

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In case you were wondering how the EU policy debate on UPFs is shaping up...

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I am excited to be presenting work-in-progress on #FoodWaste at todays Public Policy Exchange webinar: " Building a Comprehensive Strategy to Meet the Government’s Commitment to Halve Food Waste by 2030" www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?ev... My slides: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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For context US imports 59 percent of fresh fruit and 35 percent of fresh vegetables (excluding potatoes, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms) according to USDA - this has been growing since NAFTA 2008 - will new tariffs reverse this trend? Or result in poorer diets for Americans?

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A dark day for transparency in science.

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🌟 Join Our Team at the Centre for Food Policy! As a Research Fellow. You should be passionate about shaping effective food systems through research and policy development. 🏢 Location: London 📅 Contract: Permanent and Fixed Term 24 months 📅 Closing Date: 19th Feb www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

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Disappointing but not suprising UK Govt response to @houseoflords.parliament.uk Food Diet & Obesity Report. Doesn't really argue with the problem diagnosis, but lists current #foodpolicy as providing adequate solutions and will explore some other suggestions, nothing concrete. #foodsystems

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US artist, sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952 #WomensArt

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Great opportunity to work with excellent people! This is contributing to a really important project about developing and testing policies for sustainable healthy diets.

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🔥 excellent Broken Plate 2025 report by @foodfoundation.bsky.social 13 metrics on problems besetting our food system and the solutions within our grasp

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Minister for Food Security and Farming Daniel Zeichner at the @foodfoundation.bsky.social Broken Plate Report says he is thinking of food as a system not just farming but food security and thinks of himself as the minister for Food

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Important inclusion this year of @foodfoundation.bsky.social Food Ambassadors such as Glory Omoaka who at the launch of the Broken Plate report calls for more culturally appropriate food to be included in school meals

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🚀 We've just launched our latest Broken Plate report! It highlights the fact too many people are struggling to access healthy food and much of the food marketed to us is damaging our health and the planet. Find out more: ➡️ bit.ly/3PR0Gal #BrokenPlate

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At the launch of the @foodfoundation.bsky.social #BrokenPlate report - Prof Susan Jebb from the Food Standards Agency says food sadly is too often associated for people in the U.K. with stress and financial worry rather than joy

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Final promotion for this hybrid event tomorrow (wed night! hope to see some of you there in-person on online! Andrea Borghini and Enrico Bonadio Exploring Food, Philosophy, and Intellectual Property! Wed 29th January 2025, 17:00 – 18:30 (GMT) www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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It is great to be back teaching 42! amazing MSc students on FPM002 the Political Economy of Food. Today we had a guest lecture from PhD student @nifallon.bsky.social on Theories of Power.

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Nice to see my forthcoming Titans of Industrial Agriculture (MIT 2025- out in just three weeks!) on @foodtank.bsky.social 's list of books guiding us toward more regenerative food systems. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... foodtank.com/news/2025/01...

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Amazing

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Good explainer on EU #foodpolicy #foodsystems developments

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Trump announced $500 billion AI project “Stargate”, building “colossal” data centres and the necessary energy supply and infrastructure. At the same time, he removed AI oversight measures. #energysky www.rte.ie/news/us/2025...

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