Why do policymakers still talk of a rural #Africa with no cities or an #urban Africa in which no one eats? Gareth Haysom says we must give urgent attention to Africa's urban #food systems. ids.ac.uk/opinions/afric… African Centre for Cities Institute of Development Studies Food Equity Centre

Two recent major conferences in Africa failed to make the connections between #food systems and #urbanisation. This is a real problem, says Gareth Haysom of African Centre for Cities ids.ac.uk/opinions/afric… Institute of Development Studies

Event tomorrow! 📢 How do human #rights interact with national and multinational business to support equitable #food systems? With the People-Centered Food Systems consortium Speakers: @AmandineGarde Safura Abdool Karim Silvia Serrano ➡️us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Upcoming event tomorrow with @markvicol from Wageningen U&R, an expert on #livelihoods and the political economy of food An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s central dry zone 📌1st October 2024 🔔 13:00 BST 👉 register to join: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Join us at #CFS52! Side event: Bringing together urban and food justice 23 October With partners including @urbanafricaACC United Cities @wfp CSIPM @IDSUK HLPE-FSN Register: tinyurl.com/urban-food-jus…

What does the right to food look like today in South Africa? This #worldfoodday read a joint blog by Stephen Devereux from Institute of Development Studies and Mark Heywood from The Nelson Mandela School on why it is time to abnormalise hunger in South Africa 👇 ids.ac.uk/opinions/world…

To celebrate #worldfoodday, read our blog by Ayako Ebata from Institute of Development Studies alongside Isabelle Baltenweck and researchers at ILRI.org to explore how livestock alternatives in the Global South can be understood through the lens of the right to food and sustainability. ids.ac.uk/opinions/food-…

Equity is central to this year's #WorldFoodDay  conversations around the right to food. Researchers at Institute of Development Studies and our Food Equity Centre partners have co-authored a series of policy briefs for the T20 looking at how #equity can strengthen #FoodSystems ids.ac.uk/news/new-recom…

Food Equity Centre member Lídia Cabral in partnership with AFN Network+ and Sustain will be leading a new study exploring the institutional barriers to agricultural wilding and how we can shift our land-use policies in the UK 👇 agrifood4netzero.net/2024/10/16/500…

Why has South Africa not made enough progress to eliminate hunger - and how could the country's upcoming G20 presidency help change this? 👉 bit.ly/3BOh6N1 @DailyMaverick #WorldFoodDay

Sustain announces partnership with Institute of Development Studies to explore nature-friendly and equitable farming transition AFN Network+ Food Equity Centre buff.ly/3YpAcSr

"Black South Africans, in particular, face chronic and seasonal hunger". Read more from Prof Stephen Devereux's recent input at the 5th Int'l Social Justice Conference: bit.ly/3YHWn6m #ZeroHunger #UNSDGs #SJC2024

NEW report: Was There Famine in Gaza in 2024? "Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and starvation deaths, and almost certainly constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity." ids.ac.uk/publications/w… #Gaza #Famine

join Food Equity Centre member Prof Stephen Devereux tomorrow at 1pm GMT at Institute of Development Studies’s event on ‘Whether There a Famine in Gaza in 2024?’ register here 👉 ids.ac.uk/events/was-the…

Today we are celebrating Food Equity Centre co-founder Lidia Cabral who has been appointed to the UN expert panel HLPE-FSN to assist with the development of the Committee on World Food Security's next report on “Building resilient food systems” ids.ac.uk/news/lidia-cab…

📣 Upcoming event... "The rise of ultra-processed foods in human diets: corporate determinants, equity implications, and mobilizing a global public health response" 📌28th November 🔔 13:30 GMT 👉 register to join: ids.ac.uk/events/the-ris…