Person

Stuart Gillespie

Stuart Gillespie

Honorary Associate

Stuart Gillespie is an Honorary Associate, Institute of Development Studies and non-resident Senior Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute.

Stuart has been fighting to transform our dysfunctional food system for the past forty years. Stuart worked with a range of UN agencies across the world, before joining the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1999. Here he founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security, the Transform Nutrition research consortium, a flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health programme and the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions in public food and nutrition policy.

Opinions

Opinion

How will Covid-19 affect food and nutrition security in the Global South?

Alan Whiteside

30 March 2020

Publications

Book

Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

Stuart Gillespie - a veteran of four decades at the frontline of global food policy - exposes how malnutrition is enmeshed with other crises and what we can all do to turn things around. Food is life but our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose...

24 April 2025

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