The latest UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) report, covering 2019-2023, finds that key dietary recommendations are still not being met by many in the population, with those in the most deprived areas tending to have poorer diets. Read more at buff.ly/U3eIVr9 🧵 (1/2)

National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2019 to 2023 highlights dietary deficiencies and inequalities - MRC Epidemiology Unit

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has published the latest report from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), which shows results for 2019-2023.  The NDNS is […]

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Spending Review settlement for DEFRA: capital spend up (flood defences) but resource spend down Seems to cut ELMs funding (as rumoured) - no details yet, assume SFI being re-targeted. Basic Payments wound down But will continue to be a separate pot of funding for peat + trees worth 'up to £400m'

#foodpolicy loophole

UK supermarkets exploit tax loophole to produce cider at ‘pocket-money prices’

Campaigners say ‘super-strength subsidy’ puts pressure on the NHS, as some ciders cost same as apple juice

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👓👇#Freeschoolmeals

Stephen Morgan MP@stephenmorganmp.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a historic change for children and for families. A hundred thousand children lifted out of poverty. The mark of a government with a Plan for Change👇🏻 www.gov.uk/government/news/over-half-a-million-more-children-to-get-free-school-meals

Thanks for inviting me to to contribute to the chaper on #foodpolicy coherence @jeremyfarr.bsky.social, the #foodsystems report is epic and with great visuals too

Jeremy Farr@jeremyfarr.bsky.social · last yr.

Very pleased to have co-authored a chapter on policy coherence ➡️➡️ with @kellyparsons.bsky.social foodsystemhorizons.org/insights/rep...

'Next year’s presidential election seems to be weighing on his mind more than November’s Cop30 climate summit in Belém'

Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire

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'...the government needed something like a climate security centre to feed these arguments into the decision-making process around security matters rather than delegating them to other departments such as Defra' #foodsystems #foodpolicy

UK must consider food and climate part of national security, say top ex-military figures

Former army and navy leaders urge government to think beyond military capability in advance of key defence review

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Important research #foodsystems #foodpolicy

Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers

The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills

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V lucky that hyperlocal journalism is alive and well in our area, and the latest edition of Tower Hamlets Slice is a food special! 😃 #foodsystems

Very excited to have this on my doorstep

Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&A’s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers

The Victoria & Albert’s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its ‘order an object’ service and gets intimate with some national treasures – including ‘the bigge...

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Was just coming on here to say the same. Best bit of writing I have read for a while, thank you @archiebland.bsky.social

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · last yr.

If you only read one thing this weekend, this moving piece by @archiebland.bsky.social might be it.

'the project had taken a singular, “whole-system” approach in targeting children and families, community organisations, schools and the environment, ensuring “it’s the people within the locality that are making the decisions”'

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity

JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools

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For anyone else looking for a link to the MAHA report, the go-to source for any food-related political news is @hbottemiller.bsky.social, and her newsletter, @foodfixco.bsky.social, has it. If you don't subscribe, you should! Her link is here. foodfix.co/wp-content/u...

Tamar Haspel@tamarhaspel.bsky.social · last yr.

Why am I having trouble finding a link to the MAHA report that was just released? Anybody got it?

If FT are right about this announcement it will be yet another example of ambitious public health policy being announced and then quietly watered down before implementation

Camille Perrin@perrincam.bsky.social · last yr.

“UK ministers are set to delay the implementation of rules that would ban unhealthy food advertising before 9pm in order to change guidance to allow brand marketing following heavy lobbying from the industry.” Industry = 1 ; Kids’ health = 0 🫠 www.ft.com/content/a4a5...

Looking forward to participating in this webinar with @ipes-food.org colleagues and moderated by @thinink.bsky.social on June 3! Do join us! Details below ⬇️

IPES-Food@ipes-food.org · last yr.

📢 Announcing our WEBINAR | The New Geopolitics of Food: trade wars, hunger & the case for cooperative self-reliance What happens when food becomes a pawn in global power struggles? Join IPES-Food experts + @thinink.bsky.social 📆June 3 🕑14h CEST/8am EDT REGISTER: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Love this

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · last yr.

Other people appreciating all the tiny design decisions that go into FT charts is my new favourite thing 🥰📈🥰📉🥰

Trussell food banks reported a 46% increase in emergency food parcels provided for families with children compared to five years ago.

Food banks urge Labour to rethink benefit cuts amid surge in demand

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Happening at 4pm today! You can attend online or in person at the Oxford Martin School.

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs.bsky.social · last yr.

On 21/5 at 4pm, the @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social seminar will feature the excellent Prof Pete Smith from Aberdeen Uni. He'll be talking about fixing the food system for health, climate and biodiversity. Please join us at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online! More info and sign up sheet below.

Nice way to learn about ingredients...

The best ingredients to buy in Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Polish stores – by the cooks and foodies who shop there

From fresh noodles and frozen lotus buns to smoked country sausages and pandan leaves, these are the brands the experts swear by (and where to get them online)

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👀 #foodpolicy #foodsystems

In a workshop on role of chefs in sustainable diets, low emission menus, hoping to gain (and share) insights re. @ukri.org #foodsystemsspf Mandala project on institutional catering in Birmingham #foodsystems

What can be done to support professional cookery, by #foodpolicy and practice?

Why is professional cookery not represented on the Defra Food Strategy advisory board? #foodpolicy not encompassing all activities in #foodsystems

Great to see a reference to The Bear in the opening remarks at today's #foodpolicy symposium, @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social #foodsystems

For anyone who missed Professor Kevin Morgan's excellent #FoodThinkers last month; the recording is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. This is essential viewing for anyone joining our City Food Policy Symposium tomorrow! #CityFoodSym 👩‍🍳 👇 youtu.be/F3q0I-6opwk

April 2025 Food Thinkers: Kevin Morgan

YouTube video by Centre for Food Policy

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👀 #foodsystems #foodpolicy

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out the Systems Change Lab's new Food & Agriculture dashboard! Explore tons of data on status and trends of 3 major shifts needed for sustainable food systems: 1. Increase agricultural productivity sustainably & resiliently 2. Reduce food loss & waste 3. Healthier & more sustainable diets 🧪

Climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation jointly undermine food systems, with the most severe impacts on marginalized communities. These interlinked crises threaten all six dimensions of food security. 📄Read more in the new HLPE-FSN note👇

New HLPE-FSN note: Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation through the right to food

These interlinked crises threaten all six dimensions of food security

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So interesting, and the prices are 🤯

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · last yr.

So how does the London pedicab industry actually work. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-pe...