The Food Archive

I recently finished Stuart Gillespie's Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet, and as someone who has spent decades in the nutrition and food systems space, I found myself nodding along, occasionally surprised, and ultimately grateful that someone with Stuart's credentials is askin...

We're excited to share the latest research from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative (FSCI), a glob...

Ferragosto arrives like a held breath.

In Italy, it settles over the country in mid-August, when the heat is thick (thanks to this fifth heat dome, because apparently Mother Earth is done being subtle) and the light feels almost physical. The cities loosen their grip. People disappear toward the sea, the mountains, village homes, distant places, and long lunches that st...

I was having a lovely catch-up with my good friend and colleague Stineke Oenema, the former Executive Secretary of UN Nutrition, and we were discussing the current “positioning” of nutrition. Nutrition has always been important. The problem is that it rarely stays at the center of global development attention for long.

For decades, the international agenda has moved in ...