The role of informal supply chains in supporting #FoodSecurity was overlooked in #SouthAfrica's #COVID19 response, argue Lizzie Hull and Simangaliso Masinga

How do political transactions and governance practices contribute to famine in Somalia? Susanne Jaspars, Nisar Majid, and Guhad Adan take this question on in a new open access publication cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New book on the politics of women's food work

Focusing on individual behavioural causes of #malnutrition rather than its political underpinnings reproduces ethnic stereotypes and hierarchies in Somalia, argues Susanne Jaspars in this newly published article journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Pauline Harlay, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, is presenting her work on “Taiwanese tea merchants and the invention of Taiwanese terroir” next week at the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. soas.ac.uk/about/event/we…

New SOAS Food Studies Centre project on the digitalisation of food assistance in UK, Sudan and India launches its website!

Panel on politics and governance of food insecurity at the DSA conference (SOAS, June 26-28) invites papers. Deadline: 23 Jan

This panel on the politics of #FoodSecurity for the DSA conference (SOAS, 26-28 June) invites paper submissions (deadline 23 January).

Join us this evening 6pm at the SOAS Food Studies Centre for a launch of 5 new books! See here for more info: soas.ac.uk/about/event/so…

Are you joining our distinguished SOASFoodStudiesCTR lecture - This Wednesday at 6pm!

6pm tomorrow SOAS University of London Food Studies Centre, Annual Distinguished Lecture by Francesca Bray, exploring millet as the key staple in China before rice took over as the essential dietary, economic and cultural staple. SOAS Department Of Anthropology Lizzie Hull Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/re…

Join us tomorrow to find out how rice became so materially and symbolically central to diets in China - 6pm at the Food Studies Centre annual lecture. You can register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/re…

The Food Studies Centre will be hosting this lecture by Sophie Chao with SOAS Department Of Anthropology on 8th May. No need to register. See you there! soas.ac.uk/about/event/me…

The anthropologist Sophie Chao will be the speaking at SOAS Food Studies Centre on 8th May. No registration required. See you there!

Sophie Chao at SOAS next week! Don't miss this talk about hunger in the plantationocene SOASFoodStudiesCTR SOAS Department Of Anthropology

New podcast explores migration and journeys from South Asia through food!

Proud of our former student Tyfanny Choi who won the 4th EASA award for her SOAS University of London MA Anthropology of Food dissertation, 'Feeding hungry ghosts in Hong Kong: Thinking with food and hauntology' Anthropology of Food Network - Award (easaonline.org) 👏 SOAS Department Of Anthropology

'Hunger in global war economies' by Alex de Waal, first presented at the SOAS Food Studies Centre Distinguished Lecture 2023, is now published open access in HPG (now on Bluesky: hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social)'s Disasters journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/di…

Special issue on political dynamics of recent food security and famine crises: are they new trends or politics as usual? With contributions from FSC members Susanne Jaspars (also co-editor) and Lizzie Hull onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111…