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🚨 NEW REPORT: The world’s largest workforce is also its most exploited. 1.4 billion people – 2 in 5 workers worldwide – work in food systems. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. Read & share #FoodWork: ipes-food.org/report/food-...

🛢️ 99% of synthetic nitrogen #fertilizers are derived from fossil fuels. When energy prices spike, farmers and food prices feel the impact. 🌱 Climate philanthropy can help break this dependence and build more resilient food systems. ipes-food.org/follow-the-f... #FuelToFork #foodsystems

Was happy to do this interview with AnnaLise Sandrich for the Brown Journal of World Affairs bjwa.brown.edu/32-2/hunger-... @ipes-food.org

🌍 This #WorldFoodDay, let’s recognise the women who keep us fed. Women perform 76% of unpaid care work – cooking, feeding, caring for families – that keeps the world fed. Work that is invisible & undervalued. It’s time to value #FoodWork, paid & unpaid. ⚒️ Our report ipes-food.org/report/food-...

What happens when billionaire philanthropists fail? Who holds them accountable? The Gates Foundation invested $1.5bn in African industrial agriculture. Fertiliser use doubled. Hunger rose. The programme keeps getting more funding. @rajpatel.org in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/fff4...

🎧 Two years ago #FuelToFork podcast explored just how dependent our food is on fossil fuels. Now disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is putting that dependence back in the spotlight. What’s changed? Are our food systems any better prepared for the next shock? 👉 Listen ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork...

What does the Strait of Hormuz have to do with food prices? 🎧 A new #FuelToFork podcast episode explores how fossil fuel & fertilizer disruptions ripple through #FoodSystems – whether we’re ready for the next shock. 🎙️ Dire Straits: Hormuz, Fertilizers & Food Listen: fueltofork.com/episode11

🌍 We’ve entered a new era of food crises. Our food systems aren't built to withstand them. Decades of deep dependence on volatile global markets and fragile supply chains have made our food system vulnerable to shocks. We need new economics of #resilience 🔗 ipes-food.org/the-new-geop...

✊ Food worker exploitation is not inevitable. Our #FoodWork report sets out 5 priorities for change: ✊ Build worker power ⚖️ Secure decent work 🛂 Equal rights for migrant workers 🏢 Rein in corporate power ❤️ Value food work 👉 Read the report: ipes-food.org/report/food-...

2/ Low pay. Wage theft. Dangerous work. Forced labour. Discrimination. Insecure jobs. This isn’t accidental. Today’s food systems are built around keeping labour cheap and workers disempowered.

1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like? 1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork ipes-food.org/report/food-... 🧵

Finally somebody looks into this topics, thanks Ipes Team. WIll have a closer look in the coming days

Our food systems cannot function without workers. So why are so many exploited? Low pay. Unsafe work. Insecure jobs. Wage theft. Forced labour. Our new #FoodWork report exposes the exploitation running through the global food chain, and how to end it. ipes-food.org/report/food-... #LabourRights

⚒️ Behind every meal is someone’s work. But what is that work really like? 1.4 billion people work in food systems – yet no other sector exploits more workers. Our new #FoodWork report exposes why: exploitation is built into the system. 👉 ipes-food.org/report/food-...

Food systems are "the largest employer and the most abusive sector on the planet." Gross exploitation of hundreds of millions of people for the sake of cheap food and private profits, made worse by concentrated corporate control of supply chains.

Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what is that work really like? 📆 Join us on 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across global food chains. What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all? 👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Africa’s neglected crops are finally getting attention. But changing the crops without changing the system is not enough. “Africa’s crops do not need rescuing from African farmers. They need investment that puts farmers at the center" writes our Million Belay www.commondreams.org/opinion/afri...

Excited to participate in this webinar on Oct 14 launching @futureoffood.bsky.social 's important new report Toxic Dependency: How Agrochemicals Lock-In Food System Vulnerability futureoffood.org/events/webin... Registration info below ⤵️

Join us MONDAY! For the launch of… FOOD WORK | The workers behind our food and the exploitation they face A webinar with experts and labour organisers on labour exploitation across global food systems. 👇

Climate change isn’t just making food more expensive. It could be making healthy diets harder to afford. Extreme weather is driving price spikes in fruit, vegetables and other nutritious foods – pushing families towards cheaper, less nutritious alternatives. zerocarbon-analytics.org/nature/mappe...

🚨 NEW: Who really controls what we eat? The #AgribusinessAtlas exposes how a handful of corporations are tightening their grip on our food – squeezing farmers, raising prices, influencing policy, and fuelling climate & health crises. 📖 Explore: ipes-food.org/agribusiness...

“It’s not a food system; it’s an agribusiness financial complex.” “If we want to transform the food system, we need to recognise that finance is really at the heart of it.” Powerful words from Jeff Conant on the financial interests behind Big Food & Big Ag. news.thin-ink.net/p/the-opacit...

Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what is that work really like? 📆 Join us on 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across global food chains. What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all? 👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📢Who really keeps the world fed? On 5 Oct, we launch #FoodWork, our major new report exposing exploitation across global food chains. Join @rajpatel.org, @deschuttero.bsky.social & labour advocates… what will it take to make food work dignified work? 👉 Register: ipes-food.org/launch-webin...

The Agribusiness Atlas 2026 will reveal the market power of large food corporations, from seeds to supermarkets, and shows how politicians and citizens can limit this power. Launching on 30 September 2026. Join us online. 👇Register now! ipes-food.org/launch-of-th...

Who really owns Big Food? A new @foeus.bsky.social report follows the money behind the world’s biggest agrifood firms. 22% have just 3 asset management companies – Vanguard, BlackRock, or State Street – among their owners. Transforming food means tackling financial power. foodlandmoney.org

The Agribusiness Atlas 2026 will reveal the market power of large food corporations, from seeds to supermarkets, and shows how politicians and citizens can limit this power. Launching on 30 September 2026. Join us online. 👇Register now! ipes-food.org/launch-of-th...

Poisoned for producing our food. Almost half of the world’s farmers & farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning every year – 402–433 M cases estimated. Exposure to toxic chemicals should not be an inevitable risk for farmworkers. There are alternatives. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yep, the soaring price of diesel fuel translates into food price inflation - the food has to move somehow and costs are rising along food supply chains. Yet another vector by which geopolitical conflict upends food systems www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The Rise and Fall of America's Exorbitant Privilege I'm working through some ideas on the end of American hegemony. Here's a piece from my Substack. Keen for more? Subscribe here. Adam Tooze’s recent post...

Join Morgan Ody, of La Via Campesina, Ruth Nabaggala of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Sofía Monsalve (and me) for the launch of the Agribusiness Atlas, 30th September. 327262.eu2.cleverreach.com/m/17376621/

Food prices are high everywhere, straining people's ability to buy it; but people in the poorest countries spend a much higher % of their income on food (over 50% in some countries) - making geopolitical shocks and climate events that affect food prices especially harmful in those countries.

Really interesting piece from @matthewstoller.bsky.social - there are lots of laws already on the books to crack down on the harms of AI, but they aren't being enforced... as he notes,'the actual rule of law as practiced is “guilty until proven wealthy.”' www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ai-is-an-e...

Excellent new podcast drawing historical lessons from the NIEO for building a better global financial system, with @anninak.bsky.social and Eric Helleiner. youtu.be/aAUvcT6HKg8?...

I'm on a sidequest to read everything Richard Flanagan has published, and this brilliant essay in Equator explains why: www.equator.org/articles/gaz...

We know what’s wrong with our food system. So why is it so hard to change? New research argues that health, climate & social harms can’t be fixed without tackling the corporate & financial power that produces them – and shifts the costs onto everyone else. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Edible Empire podcast is now available in its entirety, along with study guides for high schoolers and university students. Useful last-minute syllabus material! thesalmonandthetomato.org/edibleempire...

Honoured that @matpaterson.bsky.social is reading my book !!!

Excited for the new term and assigning 3q outstanding books for my students to read: More and More and More by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz; Extraction by @triofrancos.bsky.social; and Hyperscale by @parismarx.com - really looking forward to the conversations! Thx to the authors for these great books!

🥵 If you’ve struggled through this summer’s heatwaves, spare a thought for the millions of farmworkers harvesting our food. ⚠️ Dangerous heat is now the leading health threat facing farmworkers. Coming soon: our report on labour exploitation in food systems. #ClimateChange #Farmworkers

🥵 If you’ve struggled through this summer’s heatwaves, spare a thought for the millions of farmworkers harvesting our food. ⚠️ Dangerous heat is now the leading health threat facing farmworkers. Coming soon: our report on labour exploitation in food systems. #ClimateChange #Farmworkers

Bill Gates-backed #AGRA promised to double African farm productivity and incomes, and halve hunger. 🥣Twenty years on, productivity growth has slowed, and undernourishment across its 13 focus countries is up 58%. Africa needs a different approach. ipes-food.org/western-led-... @ksjomo.bsky.social

Europe’s drought is another reminder that food systems must adapt to more frequent climate shocks. @profneilward.bsky.social argues #foodsystems need redesign, not business as usual: 🌱more resilient farming 🌳smarter land use 🫘healthier diets Climate adaptation requires long-term thinking.

Climate shocks are amplifying existing pressures on food systems. A strengthening #ElNiño is already driving up coffee & cocoa prices. Resilient food systems have never been more important. www.ft.com/content/7c35...

"Good food should be a public service." New York is testing a new idea: publicly supported grocery stores offering affordable, healthy food. We're proud that IPES-Food panel member Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social is helping shape this flagship initiative. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/n...

“We were talking about this as a potential risk. Now we are no longer talking about potential. It’s happening.” Our Mamadou Goïta on how war on Iran & sucessive crises exposed the costs of dependence on imported fertilisers and fossil fuels. agrowingculture.substack.com/p/where-they...