Jess Fanzo
@jessfanzo.bsky.social
The James Anderson Professor of Food Policy and Climate at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. Lover of goats, food + drink. Curator of thefoodarchive.com
Proud to share our new #FoodSystems Countdown Initiative paper, after 6+ years of work. It tracks 44 indicators & finds global progress is too slow for 2030 #SDG targets, though many goals remain achievable by 2050 with faster action. Paper: shorturl.at/1xUu0 & Policy report: shorturl.at/GBTyY
In my latest post on The Food Archive, I reflect on Ferragosto as both a cultural tradition & a timely reminder of the value of rest. In Italy, August often brings an unusual stillness, & with it, space to think about how essential recovery and pause are. www.thenutritionarchive.com/blog/2026/8/...
The Quiet of Ferragosto — The Food Archive
Ferragosto arrives like a held breath. In Italy, it settles over the country in early to mid-August, when the heat is thick (thanks to this fifth heat dome, because apparently Mother Earth is done bei...
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Proud to share our new #FoodSystems Countdown Initiative paper, after 6+ years of work. It tracks 44 indicators & finds global progress is too slow for 2030 #SDG targets, though many goals remain achievable by 2050 with faster action. Paper: shorturl.at/1xUu0 & Policy report: shorturl.at/GBTyY
In my latest post on The Food Archive, I reflect on Ferragosto as both a cultural tradition & a timely reminder of the value of rest. In Italy, August often brings an unusual stillness, & with it, space to think about how essential recovery and pause are. www.thenutritionarchive.com/blog/2026/8/...
The Quiet of Ferragosto — The Food Archive
Ferragosto arrives like a held breath. In Italy, it settles over the country in early to mid-August, when the heat is thick (thanks to this fifth heat dome, because apparently Mother Earth is done bei...
thenutritionarchive.com
Our new paper is out in Nature Medicine, led by Alaha Nasari and Amina Nasari. We argue that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz created a major fertilizer supply shock that is not just an agricultural or commodity issue, but a global health governance failure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We have a new paper that argues school nutrition policy needs to expand beyond physical food settings to address digital food environments, where youth are increasingly exposed to food marketing, ordering platforms, and algorithm-driven promotion of unhealthy foods. Check it out: shorturl.at/6LPqX
Digital food environments and youth diet: What’s next for school nutrition policies?
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Editorial: Diets affect both human and planetary health. Recent research reveals how dietary footprints vary across demographic groups and offers new data and methods for future studies. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Dietary footprints across populations - Nature Food
Diets affect both human and planetary health. Recent research reveals how dietary footprints vary across demographic groups and offers new data and methods for future studies.
nature.com
Has #nutrition been lost in the #foodsystems agenda? My thoughts on why nutrition must remain visible — not just as part of the conversation, but as a priority in its own right. www.thenutritionarchive.com/blog/2026/7/...
Weekend playing: food trade around the world Someone sent me this new interactive site. from Our World in Data: How does food get traded around the world? It's fun and useful. Scroll down the page until you come to the impossibly complicated chart on global maize trade in 2023. Ignore it. Above…
Weekend playing: food trade around the world
Someone sent me this new interactive site. from Our World in Data: How does food get traded around the world? It's fun and useful. Scroll down the page until you come to the impossibly complicated chart on global maize trade in 2023. Ignore it. Above it are places where you can type in the product you want to look at, and the country that imports or exports it.
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💰 $18 trillion is about to flow into philanthropy over the next two decades, as part of the largest generational wealth transfer in history. It is essential that capital is guided by science, not just good intentions. 🔗 To read more by @amandabielawski.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4foVSq8
Check out the latest Food Bytes from The Food Archive. What's up this month? El Niño, UPFs, displacement, Rebecca Solnit, Rothko!, Violent Femmes! & some of the best of what I have been reading lately in books, reports, & peer-reviewed literature across food, nutrition, & climate. shorturl.at/k0gkz
My review of Chiara Barzini's Aqua - a captivating narrative, in which Barzini famously lets fate set her course on a winding road trip with two of her best pals, exploring the historic Mulholland Aqueduct project to bring water from the mountains 233 miles away to Los Angeles. shorturl.at/5zr0q
In my latest Food Archive blog post I reflect on the art of being intentional about not always having to be busy “doing” things. So enjoy chasing that summer, but also find those moments to just “be” because our time is incredibly fleeting on this chaotic and beautiful planet. shorturl.at/MFUH5
This year, 239 million people need humanitarian assistance and the current humanitarian system cannot cope—it needs to change. Our latest Editorial—"Transforming the humanitarian system": spkl.io/63329Ahqp5
Absolutely tragic. New York Times article on the unfolding catastrophe in Somalia due to worldwide wars and declines in humanitarian aid. “This is the era of indifference.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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In the latest Food Archive post, we argue that the staggering gap in ultra-processed food consumption is the true culprit behind the obesity divide between Italy and the U.S., far outweighing simple differences in physical activity. Check it out: shorturl.at/aElrD
The Food Bytes May edition is out on The Food Archive. What’s up this month? Reforestation! Plastics! Crunchy teens! Sushi! And sadly, the impacts of the Iran war on food prices & security. Short on time? Skip to the end & listen to the ditty by Jessica Pratt. See you next month! shorturl.at/r28nF
Food Bytes: May Edition — The Food Archive
FOOD BYTES IS A (ALMOST) MONTHLY BLOG POST OF “NIBBLES” ON ALL THINGS CLIMATE change, FOOD systems, & NUTRITION SCIENCE, POLICY, AND CULTURE. It’s been a while since I wrote a Food Bytes post....
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The Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to #science agencies and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The World Food Programme estimates that if the blockage continues until mid-year, an extra 45m lives will be at risk, on top of the more than 300m people who already struggle to feed themselves
Millions will go hungry if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed
Expensive fuel and fertiliser will lead to smaller harvests and higher prices
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In one week!
Jess Fanzo@jessfanzo.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are so excited to host "Facts Over Myths: Food Policies for Old and New Solutions" here at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna. The event is April 20th. If you are in the neighborhood or in Italy, please come! More can be found here: shorturl.at/x1FMa
We are so excited to host "Facts Over Myths: Food Policies for Old and New Solutions" here at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna. The event is April 20th. If you are in the neighborhood or in Italy, please come! More can be found here: shorturl.at/x1FMa
This amazing photo was taken by Commander Reid Wiseman on Artemis II. What a lot of folks don't realize is that this side of the Earth is illuminated by moonlight, not the sun. And you can see aurora on both poles. Picture was rotated 180 degrees to provide more familiar orientation.
We are so excited to host "Facts Over Myths: Food Policies for Old and New Solutions" here at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna. The event is April 20th. If you are in the neighborhood or in Italy, please come! More can be found here: shorturl.at/x1FMa
After a short sabbatical from The Food Archive, I am back with my latest post on Desire Paths. A desire path is the trodden shortcut that tells you the official route isn’t serving its purpose. So...draw your own. www.thenutritionarchive.com/blog/2026/3/...
Desire paths — The Food Archive
Hi, my dear readers — I took a brief sabbatical from the Food Archive, a self-imposed intermission of sorts. I’m back now, fortified and oddly calm. Recently, I gave a talk at CIMMYT titled “Catalyst...
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Hiked 50 km to & from #Bologna & stayed at this lovely agroturismo owned by Patrizia & her 94-year-old mother Anna. Where else can you spend an evening in the countryside, enjoying hand-made tagliatelle con ragu & rabbit (cooked on a wood-burning stove) around the family kitchen table? #VivaItalia!
To those in the replies pointing out that 2/3 of the ag land is pasture, much of which can’t grow crops/trees: true. That said, ~1/3 of today’s pasturelands used to be forest. Pasture expansion is #1 driver of tropical deforestation this century. And beef uses 20x the land per g protein vs plants.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6mo ago80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
