IPES-Food
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We are the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) : a global think-tank guiding action for #sustainable #foodsystems around the world.🌍 🌱 Follow us for all things #food, #hunger, #climate. ➡️ https://ipes-food.org
whoo hoo! just sent off the ms for the 4th edn of my book Food (Polity press) - major effort plus new chapter on digitalization... keep an eye out for it in 2027! Major thanks to all those who helped me along the way w/ this and previous editions !! ❤️ Curious about what the new cover will look like!
Distraught that Canada is talking about building new oil pipelines when climate-induced wildfires are causing us to have to suffer through the worst air quality in the world right now. Pumping more oil is a terrible idea.
“Lobbying has borne fruit.” That’s how the EU's most powerful agricultural lobby reportedly described its campaign to influence key EU Farm To Fork legislation. Raising important questions who gets to shape Europe’s food policy, and in whose interests? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
theguardian.com
La alimentación no es un lujo. Es una infraestructura esencial. Los supermercados públicos pueden ayudar a garantizar alimentos saludables y asequibles, apoyar a productores locales y fortalecer sistemas alimentarios más resilientes. Pero necesitan escala, logística y una misión pública.
Supermercados públicos: ¿una forma de abaratar la cesta de la compra?
La iniciativa del alcalde de Nueva York ha reavivado el debate sobre estos establecimientos como una posible herramienta para garantizar el acceso a alimentos frescos y de proximidad
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Food prices are facing a triple whammy. Trade disputes. Geopolitical conflict. Now climate extremes and a potential super El Niño. "Price shocks could reach 10-50% across core commodities" or more… Building resilient food systems has never been more urgent. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say
Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war
theguardian.com
De los mercados con significación política al supermercado como invento patentado en 1917. Y de ahí a la discusión actual. ¿Los supermercados públicos son un modelo de negocio o un modelo social? Hoy escribo sobre este tema en @elcomidista.bsky.social. elpais.com/gastronomia/...
Supermercados públicos: ¿una forma de abaratar la cesta de la compra?
La iniciativa del alcalde de Nueva York ha reavivado el debate sobre estos establecimientos como una posible herramienta para garantizar el acceso a alimentos frescos y de proximidad
elpais.com
Food prices are facing a triple whammy. Trade disputes. Geopolitical conflict. Now climate extremes and a potential super El Niño. "Price shocks could reach 10-50% across core commodities" or more… Building resilient food systems has never been more urgent. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say
Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war
theguardian.com
Climate change isn’t just raising temperatures. It’s raising food prices. Climate shocks become food price shocks when they hit food systems built on fossil fuel dependence, imported inputs, monocultures and fragile global supply chains. Building #resilience has never been more urgent.
Emma Court@emmarcourt.bsky.social · last mo.Groceries. Water. Health insurance. Even rent. Climate change is starting to show up in all of these bills. For @bloomberg.com's Businessweek, Kyle Kim and I explore how a warming world is driving up costs — and why it's becoming a major economic issue www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“[Farmers] are feeling the conflict in their pockets.” As wars drive up fertiliser prices, farmers dependent on imported synthetic inputs are paying the price. But farmers using compost & #agroecology are far less exposed to volatile global markets, and more resilient. foodtank.com/news/2026/06...
Transitioning Away from Chemical Fertilizers Pays Off
The war in Iran have sent fertilizer prices surging. Will it make farmers less dependent on harmful chemical inputs once and for all?
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Lights, Camera, Authoritarianism! Progressive.International's Reactionary International dossier has a fantastic new entry, on national chauvinism on film and phone, from India to Israel to Hungary to the US. buff.ly/yGlB6dc
Climate shocks are no longer exceptional. They’re becoming a defining feature of our food systems. As Europe endures another extreme heatwave and a strong El Niño is expected to develop, #foodsecurity is increasingly about #resilience to shocks. New @fao.org analysis: www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
El Niño is coming. Here is where the risks to agriculture are highest
FAO experts map where crops and pasturelands are most vulnerable to drought
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The flames of xenophobia in South Africa are burning. Yesterday's deadline for exodus could have been far worse, but things still looking grim. Richard Pithouse is excellent on this Al Jazeera panel. aje.news/34io1l
How is South Africa dealing with immigration?
Anti-migrant groups had given a deadline to undocumented foreigners to leave by June 30.
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Climate shocks are no longer exceptional. They’re becoming a defining feature of our food systems. As Europe endures another extreme heatwave and a strong El Niño is expected to develop, #foodsecurity is increasingly about #resilience to shocks. New @fao.org analysis: www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
El Niño is coming. Here is where the risks to agriculture are highest
FAO experts map where crops and pasturelands are most vulnerable to drought
fao.org
“When shocks and crises become a regular feature of food systems, it can be far cheaper to invest in resilience over the longer term.” @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social explains why resilient self-reliance is about reducing vulnerability to food price shocks. www.foodagribusiness.world/agribusiness...
Why building resilient food systems can reduce volatility and help farmers thrive
Interview with Jennifer Clapp on how dependence on imports in industrial livestock affects farmers, prices, and global food security.
foodagribusiness.world
David Bacon's black and white photography is always heartstopping. Use it to find out about what Coachella was before it was #Coachella, out now in the excellent US rural news source BarnRaiser barnraisingmedia.com/for-coachell...
For Coachella Farmworkers, the Grape Strikes of the 20th Century Cast a Long Shadow
Bending his stiff joints, he took a shovel and, in the weeds, dug out the entrance to a mole burrow to show me how he placed the trap. The sun on the brim of his sombrero cast dark shadows across his…
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Health minister meets with pesticide industry lobby group before and after weakening pesticide rules to allow exemptions for 'national security or food security' reasons without defining what that means. Scientists and public health experts not allowed to testify. Hmmmm. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News
The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...
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The connection between the violence in Belfast and the humanitarian disaster in Durban isn't an accident. Progressive International have sent an alert. Here's some background. open.substack.com/pub/classwor... progressive.international/observatory/...
“When shocks and crises become a regular feature of food systems, it can be far cheaper to invest in resilience over the longer term.” @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social explains why resilient self-reliance is about reducing vulnerability to food price shocks. www.foodagribusiness.world/agribusiness...
Why building resilient food systems can reduce volatility and help farmers thrive
Interview with Jennifer Clapp on how dependence on imports in industrial livestock affects farmers, prices, and global food security.
foodagribusiness.world
Europe’s dependence on synthetic fertilisers is also a dependence on fossil gas. Between 2019–2024, €16.4bn was spent on fertiliser that generated no food, while synthetic nitrogen use caused an estimated €233.7bn in environmental damage. zerocarbon-analytics.org/nature/food-...
Fresh, nutritious food for the wealthy. Junk food for everyone else? Our @grocerynerd.bsky.social challenges the idea that healthy food should be a luxury. His answer: “Redistribute the health” and expand food access. grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
Grocery Update #160: Class War Smoothies.
How Premium Retail Can Redistribute The Health.
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Who owns the data generated on farms? Increasingly, not farmers. As AI, cloud computing and biodigital technologies spread through agriculture, control over data is becoming a major source of corporate power. This new article explores why data sovereignty matters. ipes-food.org/digital-agri...
Digital agriculture is concentrating corporate power over food systems - IPES-Food
How digital agriculture is concentrating corporate power through data ownership, AI, and biodigitalization, and what data sovereignty means for food systems - by IPES-Food
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🔴 NEW: Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’ Prompts Drinking Water Crackdown. Will Europe Follow Suit? 📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @rachelsherrington.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/06/12/d...
Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’ Prompts Drinking Water Crackdown. Will Europe Follow Suit?
Denmark is set to radically overhaul its drinking water policy as part of a raft of sweeping reforms to the country’s livestock industry. In a nation with more pigs per capita than anywhere else in th...
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"We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution." Our @deschuttero.bsky.social & top economists call for a rewiring of economies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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In a world that produces enough food for everyone, Jean Ziegler refused to accept hunger as normal. His voice helped establish the right to food as a human right and inspired generations to challenge the systems that keep people hungry. Rest in peace. #RightToFood #RIP #JeanZiegler
So nice to see this piece out with @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne on global environmental governance in a fracturing liberal political economy... We talk about climate, food and plastics governance as liberal norms erode...
Jack Taggart@jacktaggart.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat happens to global environmental governance when the liberal world economy underpinning it fragments? New piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social, w/ Peter Dauvergne, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social & @policyrelevant.bsky.social. We ask what comes after ‘liberal environmentalism’. doi.org/10.1080/0969...
Fruit and Veg prices soaring in the US...Rising energy costs due to the war on Iran are having a big impact on food prices - not just production costs, but transportation, cold chain, retail, etc. www.ft.com/content/f27a...
Today’s geopolitical crises aren’t creating food system vulnerabilities from scratch. They’re exposing vulnerabilities that have been building for decades. New op-ed by Jomo Kwame Sundaram on the new geopolitics of food ipes-food.org/new-geopolit...
New geopolitics threatens more food crises - IPES-Food
Recent geopolitical trends threaten more food crises, especially in developing countries. Resilient self-reliance can help improve equity, sustainability and solidarity - by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
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The people who harvest our food are too often invisible until tragedy strikes. 4 migrant farmworkers were burned alive in Italy – shining a spotlight on the systematic abuse many migrant workers face in food systems. Food justice includes workers’ rights. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Four migrant workers reportedly burned alive in their car in attack in Italy
Petrol station attack in Calabria throws spotlight on widespread exploitation of foreign farm labourers
theguardian.com
Last week saw the funeral of Edgar Morin, who coined #polycrisis. He meant it as an indictment of compartmentalized, technocratic, elite thinking. Its second life has been stranger: a sophisticated ¯\(ツ)/¯ for those who cry 'fire!' while letting it burn. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/where-the-...
📘Já disponível em 🇧🇷português! A Nova Geopolítica da Alimentação explora como os governos podem construir uma autossuficiência resiliente, estabilizar os preços dos alimentos e reduzir sua vulnerabilidade diante de choques geopolíticos, climáticos e comerciais. 👉 ipes-food.org/pt/report/a-...
