An open education resource for transforming our food systems - curated by @GeoffTansey
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Curator @GeoffTansey is fundraising for PROSTATE CANCER UK. Check out his @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/geoff-pr…
Around a third of people worldwide are malnourished in some way because the #food system is working and #malnutrition is the result, argues Stuart Gillespie in his book Food Fight. Hear him in conversation with curator @GeoffTansey geofftansey.wordpress.com/20…
As the world faces more and more shocks this very timely report from Prof Tim Lang looks at how to create #food resilience and citizen food resilience for the #UK drawing lessons from other countries. See curator @GeoffTansey's latest blog geofftansey.wordpress.com/20…
See curator @GeoffTansey latest blog this World Philosophy Day when he's talking with philosopher Dr Julian Baggini about the seven pillars of a food system he believes are needed, discussed in his book ‘How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy' geofftansey.wordpress.com/20…
refines the $12 trillion costs identified in SOFA2023 and focuses on the $8trillion cost of unhealthy dietary patterns - Using true cost accounting #TrueCostOfFood #TrueCostAccounting See slides being presented by FAO's Andrea Catteneo@FAO#sofa2024@FAO
Listen to one of, if not, the most important broadcasters about food in the UK in this reflective conversation and her hopes for the future - Sheila Dillon of BBC Radio 4's Food Programme. geofftansey.wordpress.com/20…
Listen to curator @GeoffTansey's wide-ranging conversation with Emily Miles, Exec Director of the Food Standards Agency: geofftansey.wordpress.com/20… It covers Brexit, trade deals, nutrition, regulation, conflicts of interest, independence of FSA & wish list for future of the FSA.
For anyone concerned, especially scientists, about avoiding advances in biotechnology and chemistry being used for war not peace this new lecture by Malcolm Dando, which updates his audio talk on the FSAc webite, is a must see - foodsystemsacademy.org.uk/au…
@FoodEthicsNewsResponds to government #food strategy ow.ly/Jklh50JwcUj… calls it unethical, not a strategy, a betrayal of trust, devoid of the values our food systems need, props up the status quo & may create barriers to those wanting to transition to #farming with nature
Curator @GeoffTansey says Check out these urgent calls for action to prevent a global food crisis from @FAO, @UNCTAD, @UN @UNHumanRights , including by the @WTO 12 Ministerial meeting on now. #foodsecurity,#right2food
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Watching live UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Prof @MichaelFakhri. He is also Director of the Food Resiliency Project at the University of Oregon School of Law, & will discuss the history, evolution & radical potential of the right to #food. youtube.com/watch?v=0VPgqGzo…
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Listen to Rapporteur on Right to Food @MichealFakhri's lecture 'The Radical Potential of the Right to Food' tonight at 7pm UK time. Youtube Link: youtu.be/0VPgqGzoAbI
Facebook Link: facebook.com/events/27382174… #food
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Listen to UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food @MichaelFakhri in conversation with Anna Taylor of @Food_Foundation & Young Food Ambassadors on #Right2Food tonight at 19.00GMT live streamed on Youtube Link: youtu.be/0VPgqGzoAbI
or Facebook: facebook.com/events/27382174…
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In this conversation Prof Marion Nestle discusses the links between #food,#politics,#capitalism, #health, #marketing as well as the undesirable influence of industry funding on #nutrition research @marionnestle @ProfTimLang geofftansey.wordpress.com/20…
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New @WHO report 'Food marketing exposure and power and their associations with food-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviours: a narrative review' who.int/publications-detail-… - It "predominantly promotes foods that contribute to unhealthy diets" #food #health
Hear great conversations with Susan George, Frances Moore Lappe, the late Jane Dixon, M S Swaminathan, Richard Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp, Michael Fakhri, Dan Saladino, Tim Wise, Philip James & more on @GeoffTansey's blog -ow.ly/lGHf50HVEi9 - #food #foodpolicy