How important are small, local farms to our food systems, now and into the future? 🌽🥕🚜 I'm excited to announce new research into policies supporting smallholder farmers in high-income countries, with @teimaui.bsky.social, @kcullerton.bsky.social and Jessica Bogard! Read more here: shorturl.at/wXpTM

What policy support do smallholders in high-income countries need to contribute to healthy, sustainable food systems? A scoping review

Global food systems face complex challenges and need to transform to meet increasing demand for food, sustainably. Smallholders are a significant popu…

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About 3 months ago, the print version of this article had this lead: "Elon Musk has 240 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?" Today, the same article came online with a small update: "Elon Musk has 400 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?" www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Not a level playing field

LMU sociologist Fabian Pfeffer explains why the extreme wealth gap harms society and democracy and leads to a distinctly uneven spread of opportunities for coming generations. From the research magazi...

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Are you small-scale farmer in Australia, or do you know a small-scale farmer? Please complete the survey if you are a farmer and forward the link to any small-scale farmers you know. To access the survey, scan the QR code or follow this link: uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A useful read. Academics - we have a lot of skills to offer in organising against fascism. Last night I used my skills as a teacher to educate new door knockers on how to talk to people in low conflict ways. I felt useful. And I felt better about stuff www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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🚨Calling All Australian Health Professionals providing dietary or nutrition advice🚨 PhD student @teimaui.bsky.social at UQ is conducting a quick 10-15min survey on food industry engagement with health profs. If you provide dietary/nutrition advice at any level, your input is valuable! rb.gy/mpjqjj

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵