The Food Equity Centre exists to challenge the power and politics that make food systems inequitable.
We conduct research and generate contextualized knowledge into the complex socio-economic factors that lead to certain people being unable to access affordable, nutritious food, or earn a decent living in the food system.
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We are a collaboration of researchers across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, bringing together knowledge and understanding from different contexts to make food systems fairer.
We work closely with activists, practitioners and policymakers to support regional, national and global decision-making with empirical evidence to make food systems equity-driven.
Recent work
news
The Food Equity Centre has launched a series of short videos interviewing experts on how food systems could be transformed to work better for people and the environment. [caption id="attachment_110911" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Lusaka, Soweto Market, Zambia. Credit: Bernard Mwape/Shutterstock[/caption] The…
28 July 2025
news
Two state-subsidised ‘public restaurants’ will be piloted in the UK as part of new research into whether they can help improve public health by providing an affordable alternative to unhealthy convenience food. The pilot restaurants will open in Dundee and…
09 July 2025
Opinion
It isn’t charity, it isn’t a treat, it’s universal. A public infrastructure, much like public libraries and public transport, ‘public restaurants’ are state-subsidised eateries which offer universal access to nutritious, appetising and sustainably produced foods. They have enormous potential to…
Anna Chworow, Deputy Director, Nourish Scotland
08 July 2025
Opinion
One of President Lula’s early acts as President of Brazil for the third time was to reinstate the national food and nutrition security council, after the previous President Jair Bolsonaro had dismantled it in 2019. [caption id="attachment_111995" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Councillors…
25 June 2025
news
A new study of innovative, grassroots food projects in cities across the world - filling the gap left by insufficient state support for those in food insecurity - suggests that they provide more dignity and choice than standard foodbank models.…
22 May 2025
events
Watch again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYD-IhrjawI This seminar will showcase community-led innovations focused on enhancing equity and sustainability in food access in the city of Brighton & Hove. It will examine experiences that emerged in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living…
13 May 2025
publications
In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by foregrounding a new set of voices and experiences from…
Lídia Cabral & 4 others
12 May 2025
events
https://youtu.be/xtem1iwFy9k Talk by Indian seed sovereignty scholar and activist Dr. Debal Deb. [caption id="attachment_110375" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Image: Jenya Smyk/Shutterstock.[/caption] Neolithic farmers created all the cultivated crop species from their wild progenitors. Generations of pre-industrial farmers since the Neolithic era have…
01 May 2025
Projects
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co-Designing Innovative infrastructure for Sustainable Healthy & Equitable Diets The DISHED project is testing a simple idea: can public restaurants promote healthier, more sustainable food systems and support local economies? Public restaurants can provide universal access to high quality nutritious…
projects
To date, global food system transformation has failed to accrue benefits to those living in extreme poverty. One potential reason for this is that the most vulnerable actors within food systems supply chains, such as smallholder farmers and micro businesses,…
projects
How we produce, trade and consume food (i.e. food value chains) is a major contributor to social and environmental problems: food insecurity persists among vulnerable people and the environment is damaged from food production while poverty persists among value chain…
projects
Poor diets are a primary cause of malnutrition and the leading cause of diseases worldwide. Improving diets, including increasing fruit and vegetable intake, could save one in five lives lost annually. Micronutrients and dietary fibre are essential for health; micronutrients…
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