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Nicholas Nisbett

Nicholas Nisbett

Research Fellow

Nicholas Nisbett is Professorial Fellow at IDS and a Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition and Health Equity at the University of Sussex.

With over 20 years of international development research and policy development experience, he has published and worked extensively on food and nutrition policy and politics. His recent work has focused on nutrition equity: he co-authored the introductory chapter to the 2020 Global Nutrition Report and is currently a member of the UN Committee on Food Security’s High Level Panel of Experts for a report on inequalities in food systems. He has consulted for a range of international organisations, including UNICEF, and the UK’s DFID, with evaluations and research focusing on equity; national and community level drivers of nutrition and community accountability in India, Bangladesh and W Africa. Prior to IDS, Nisbett led UK Government teams on agricultural trade policy; agricultural policy reform and land & marine-based natural resource management; and a major international policy research programme on the future of food and farming.

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Research

Centre

Food Equity Centre

The Food Equity Centre brings together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists to collaborate in developing solutions to inequities in food systems. It addresses the urgent need for research and action towards fairness, justice, and inclusion at a time when the Covid-19...

Opinions

Opinion

To leave no one behind we must focus on food equity

The theme for this year’s World Food Day (16 October) is ‘leave no one behind’. However, the leave no one behind agenda as part of the Sustainable Development Goals focuses largely on addressing deprivation and not the broader inequities - injustices and power imbalances – that drive...

Lidia Cabral
Lidia Cabral & 5 others

10 October 2022

Publications

Working Paper

Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration: Concepts and Assumptions

Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration Working Paper 1

This working paper is the product of the Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration. It is designed to bring together our thinking on how infrastructure can shape the food and nutritional security of urban marginalised populations. Infrastructure assemblages include the material...

Jane Battersby & 13 others

23 May 2023

Journal Article

A Whole System Approach to Childhood Obesity: How a Supportive Environment was Created in the City of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Childhood obesity is a growing global challenge, and no country has yet reversed the upward trend in prevalence. The causes are multifaceted, spanning individual, societal, environmental, and political spheres. This makes finding solutions complex as traditional linear models of treatment and...

Leah Salm & 5 others

19 April 2023

Nicholas Nisbett’s recent work

News

New IDS Bulletin on the political economy of food

This new issue of the IDS Bulletin, edited by Jody Harris, Molly Anderson, Chantal Clément and Nicholas Nisbett examines a range of perspectives on power in food systems, and the various active players, relationships, activities, and institutions that play a major role in shaping them. It...

6 August 2019