Report
26 June 2023
Pathways to Equitable Food Systems
Published by: IDS
Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of...
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Working Paper
19 June 2023
Healthy Diets Depend on Equity and Justice: Understanding the Context in Brazil, South Africa, the UK, and Vietnam
Published by: Kingston University
The purpose of this paper is to outline a new intellectual and research agenda for future work taken forward by the Food Equity Centre on the theme of Healthy Diets. We outline our initial conceptual approach and summarise current thinking and action on dietary equity through four country case studies, then propose a number of research gaps that we will address in future research and publications together.
News
10 May 2023
IDS researchers join experts at global food and farming conference
IDS Director Professor Melissa Leach and IDS researcher Stephen Devereux will speak alongside experts from around the world tomorrow (11...
Journal Article
19 April 2023
A Whole System Approach to Childhood Obesity: How a Supportive Environment was Created in the City of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Published by: SpringerOpen
Childhood obesity is a growing global challenge, and no country has yet reversed the upward trend in prevalence. The causes are...
Working Paper
19 December 2022
Connecting Food Inequities Through Relational Territories
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper explores how food inequities manifest at a territorial level, and how food territories are experienced, understood, and navigated by stakeholders to address those inequities. We interpret ‘food territory’ as a relational and transcalar concept, connected through geography, culture, history, and governance.
Working Paper
19 December 2022
Challenging the Normalisation of Hunger in Highly Unequal Societies
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper starts from an empirical observation that levels of hunger or food insecurity in middle-income and high-income countries are often higher than might be expected, and in some cases are rising rather than falling in recent years. We document levels and trends in selected food security indicators for three case study countries: Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Working Paper
19 December 2022
Food Equity: A Pluralistic Framework
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Food systems are characterised by inequities in every component, from production through to consumption. This paper seeks to make sense of various perspectives and concepts that account for the multiple forms of inequity.
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Challenging the normalisation of hunger in highly unequal societies
Levels of hunger and food insecurity in middle-income and high-income countries are often higher than might be expected, and in some...
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12 October 2022
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11 October 2022