IPES-Food

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food)
Guiding action for sustainable food systems🌍
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[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

Hi friends,

IPES-Food is branching out. You can now catch us on @bluesky!🦋

Follow "@ipes-food.org" for our continued analysis on #foodsystems, #agroecology, #hunger, and #sustainability.

Come join the conversation.
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#Xodus

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🇪🇺 Should farms that exploit workers keep receiving the public's money?

EU ministers apparently think so 👀

⚠️ @DeSchutterO argues in Social Europe : public money should uphold workers’ rights, not reward those who exploit them.

#CAP #EU #Farmworkers
https://t.co/csIh7hWV00

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🛢️ We can’t phase out fossil fuels without transforming food systems.

Food consumes 15% of global fossil fuels, yet remains a blind spot in #COP31 climate action.

🌱 It’s time to invest in agroecology and break our dependence on synthetic fertilisers.

https://t.co/8EjAJsIs8Q

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

⚖️ What if the law gave you fewer rights simply because you worked on a farm?

For millions of farmworkers, that’s reality.

Governments routinely exclude farmworkers from basic protections on pay, safety, & union rights. It's unfair.

Read #FoodWork
👉 https://t.co/Y1JEWlsSR8

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🇺🇸 Rising food prices. Farm costs. Corporate power.

Food systems were major political battlegrounds in the US midterm elections, reports @CivilEats.

Now there is a mandate for change – on food access, SNAP cuts, farm policy, & corporate concentration.

https://t.co/qX8s0Xc8gV

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🇧🇷Lula’s re-election is a defining moment for Brazil’s democracy, forests, & food future.

His government has lifted 40 million people out of food insecurity. But agribusiness still wields enormous power.

What comes next?

Elisabetta Recine’s analysis👇
https://t.co/swg2CoPtey

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🌍The Hormuz crisis exposed our food systems’ dangerous dependence on fossil fuels.

How do we build real resilience?

🎧In our #FuelToFork podcast Jennifer Clapp explains why resilient self-reliance, agroecology, & reducing fertiliser dependence are key.
https://t.co/SmV3yCEF0g

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🇧🇷 Lula’s re-election brings hope for Brazil’s food future.

But powerful agribusiness interests remain entrenched, despite major progress on hunger and deforestation.

What will it take to build a fairer, more sustainable food system? @foodtank

👉 https://t.co/h6E7VRSv6D

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🛢️ 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.

👉 https://t.co/y3uJb8LkJw
#FuelToFork

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🌍 This #WorldFoodDay, let’s recognise the women who keep us fed.

Women perform 76% of unpaid care work – cooking, feeding, caring for families.

This essential work is invisible & undervalued.

It’s time to value #FoodWork paid & unpaid.

⚒️ Our report https://t.co/Y1JEWlsl1A

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

What happens when billionaire philanthropists fail? Who holds them accountable?

The Gates Foundation invested $1.5bn in African industrial agriculture. Fertilisers doubled. Hunger rose.

Yet the programme keeps getting more funding.

@_RajPatel in @FT
https://t.co/xcOGlhF0kN

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🎧2 years ago our #FuelToFork podcast explored how dependent our food is on fossil fuels.

Now disruption in the Gulf is putting that dependence back in the spotlight.

What’s changed? Are our food systems any better prepared for the next shock?

👉LISTEN https://t.co/cYsy01t6dW

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

What does an oil shock 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
https://t.co/QJgxXiAG3x

[Inter Press Service @ipsnews]

Migrant farmworkers face exploitation and abuse that would be unimaginable for native workers: housed in poor conditions, paid poverty wages, and working in often dangerous conditions, says Olivier De Schutter, @IPESfood https://t.co/r3oEs31ny3

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

🌍 We’ve entered a new era of food crises. Our food systems is not built to withstand them.

Decades of dependence on volatile global markets and fragile supply chains have made our food system vulnerable to shocks.

We need new economics of #resilience
https://t.co/8ReJtBCRL4

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

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: https://t.co/Y1JEWlsSR8

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

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

https://t.co/Y1JEWlsSR8
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[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

4/4 But exploitation is not inevitable.

When food workers organize, they win better pay, safer workplaces & stronger rights.

Good food should never depend on poverty wages, unsafe work or invisible labour.

Read our new report #FoodWork: https://t.co/Y1JEWlsl1A

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

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

https://t.co/Y1JEWlsSR8
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[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

3/ And pressures are intensifying:

🌡️ Climate change is making work more dangerous
📱 AI & surveillance are creating new forms of control
🏢 Corporate concentration is weakening worker power