Globally, women cook twice the amount men do. Women are most affected by problems of how to access, buy, and cook healthy foods. The same is true for ultraprocessed foods. Conversations on these foods and policies & interventions to reduce them must include women's voices.

Join us online if you can to kick up some ruckus for people of the future today - I'm so looking forward to this conversation....

Congrats to Savannah Dysard Savannah Dysard for presenting research on gender transformative approaches to global-level food systems policies at the World Public Health Nutrition Association WPHN CONGRESS 2024 today! A brilliant LSHTM Nutrition Group alum, showcasing an excellent summer project! 🤩 Penelope Milsom Helen Walls

Exciting to see Savannah's excellent work presented WPHN CONGRESS 2024 - keep an eye out for publication. 👏

The contemporary #foodsystem is not built to withstand our age of #polycrisis. "It's essential for countries to grow more of the #food they consume… so that when shocks happen, they do not generate a #crisis" writes Jennifer Clapp for Rosa Luxemburg Foundation rosalux.de/en/news/id/522…

🌍Webinar on June 27: Power Asymmetries in Global Health! Join Yoke Ling, Suerie Moon, Sharifah Sekalala, & Dr. Peter A Singer, OC for a critical discussion on global health governance in an era of complex multilateralism. ⏰ 8 PM MYT / 12 PM UCT. 🔗go.unu.edu/wHRP8

Excited that this is finally published! 🚨 We aimed to systematically review empirical literature to characterise #corruption in the global food system, identify involved actors, examine impacts, and explore proposed solutions: doi.org/10.1186/s12992… 1/8🧵

The 7 Cs underlying global food crisis: #Covid-19 #Climatechange Conflicts #Colonialism Chemical agriculture #Capitalism Craven opportunism. Raj Patel - also rajpatel.bsky.social argues solidarity through #foodsovereignty offers a way to respond, via Rosa Luxemburg Foundation ipes-food.org/food-sovereign…

Financial incentive schemes have been shown to increase fruit & veg purchase in urban supermarkets, but what about in more informal settings? Read on for more... tinyurl.com/4cv8jh2 🇮🇳 Jude Santhi Bhogadi Richa Pande Anura Kurpad Nanda Kishore Kannuri Bharati Kulkarni

Global industrial #food chains are too susceptible to breakdowns. We need local food markets that can deliver resilience – says our Jennifer Clapp #FoodFromSomewhere #FoodAccess #FoodSecurity 👉ipes-food.org/report/food-fr…

Check out this fantastic work involving LSHTM Nutrition Group team members, on incentivising purchase of fruits and veg in India 🍊🥬🫑🥕🍠🍅 👏 Helen Walls & team! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

World’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes, while nearly 5 billion people have been made poorer. Obsession with growth is enriching elites & killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights. Must-read Olivier De Schutter UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights theguardian.com/global-develop…

The Greens now have as many seats as Reform. Will they get anywhere near as much press coverage?

"Local markets and food chains provide nutritious, affordable #food, and are far more adaptable to global shocks and disruptions than industrial supply chains" — says our @commonmolly #FoodFromSomewhere #FoodAccess #FoodSecurity 👉ipes-food.org/report/food-fr…

New paper in HealthPolicyPlanning, for those doing research/ teaching in health policy analysis, see our great new paper on the impact of crises on policy formulation (Covid-19 + alcohol regulation) academic.oup.com/heapol/advance… Lucy Gilson Eleanor Whyle Stephanie M Topp Helen Walls @jshiffma

🔥 Exciting new paper from Marsha Orgill, PhD. @ University of Cape Town and colleagues on how crises shape policy formulation processes.

We are hiring for a new postition. 3 year Post Doctoral Research Associate Health in Humanitarian Settings and/or Global Governance for Health from a gender perspective at Imperial College London. Come and join our growing team! jobs.ac.uk/job/DIS372/3-y…

Check out this new paper by @SparlingThalia and team LSHTM Nutrition Group on intersections of climate change with food systems, nutrition, and health. The authors identify 4⃣ key research gaps to be urgently addressed. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Social protection strategies are critical to address escalating risks to health & wellbeing - including via food systems - with climate breakdown. In this blog we discuss school meals programmes as a key part of social safety nets. Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health, LSHTM Health Systems LSHTM LSHTM Nutrition Group