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 pandemic exposed the scale of food insecurity and structural issues that leaves people in poor food environments more vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.
Transformation through interdisciplinarity
The Food Equity Centre is made up of leading actors in food security and social justice including food systems, nutrition, social protection, food sovereignty and the right to food. Through research, knowledge sharing and mutual learning between countries North and South, it is breaking down silos between researchers, activists and affected communities. The Centre is generating contextualised knowledge and actionable solutions contributing to transformative change that leads to equitable and sustainable food systems globally.
Why is tackling inequity so important?
In June 2023 IDS released a report entitled Pathways to Equitable Food Systems, which showed how food systems around the world are highly unjust, revealed the drivers of food inequity, and outlined a pathways approach to moving towards a more socially just food system.
