Centre for Food Policy @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social We are an interdisciplinary centre based at City St George's, University of London, dedicated to improving food policy worldwide.
Department of Government, Essex @uniessexgov.bsky.social 2nd in UK for research outputs (REF 2021)
Top 5 in Europe for citations and journal impact (Barceló et al 2025)
Top 9 IR and Top 12 Politics (Guardian Uni Guide 2026)
https://linktr.ee/UniEssexGov
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social Researcher in digital, recovering academic. Data feminist.
On about games, books, cats, telly.
Always #LWithTheT
She/her
Exeter Food @exeterfood.bsky.social A University of Exeter research network exploring the role of food in human life and developing solutions to today’s most pressing food challenges.
Join us: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/networks/exeterfood/
Madeleine Coste @madeleinecoste.bsky.social Head of Food at Eurocities. Linking #EU and #urban #foodpolicy.
Colin Sage @envirofood.bsky.social Independent research scholar based in Portugal. Affiliated Professor Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto. Author, Environment and Food (2012); editor, A Research Agenda for Food Systems (2022). Co-founder, Cork Food Policy Council.
@geogjulie.bsky.social @geogjulie.bsky.social
Richard Patterson @richpatter.bsky.social Public health scientist.
plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social Campaigning for plant-based food as the norm. Reducing meat & dairy benefits climate, biodiversity and human health, and massively reduces animal suffering.
Scottish Food Coalition @foodcoalition.scot A diverse alliance of organisations working for a just transition to a fair, healthy, sustainable food system.
Obesity Action Scotland @obesityactionsc.bsky.social We’re continuing the conversation on #obesityprevtion on LinkedIn and our website. Connect with us there for the latest news, insights and updates.
👉 https://uk.linkedin.com/com/company/obesity-action-sco
Michael Fakhri @michaelfakhri.bsky.social Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2020-2026)
Asha Kaur @ashakaur.bsky.social Senior researcher | Sustainable Healthy Food Group | University of Oxford | https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/asha-kaur
High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to world food security and nutrition.
World Food System Center, ETH Zurich @ethzwfsc.bsky.social Tackling global food system challenges through research, education, and outreach.
Kathryn Backholer @kbackholer.bsky.social Co-Director @GLOBE_deakin | Research & capacity support that responds to real world health policy challenges | Prevention | Digital harms | Food policy | Equity | Multi-disciplinarity | Mum
Stella Nordhagen @stellanordhagen.bsky.social Researcher focusing on food, agriculture, nutrition, climate change, sustainability, gender equity, development.
Rachel Carey @drrachelcarey.bsky.social Academic @unimelb working on resilient and sustainable food systems, food policy, city region food systems, water and food waste
Public Health Association New Zealand @phanewzealand.bsky.social Health Equity in Aotearoa:
Hauora mō te katoa - Oranga mō te Ao.
The PHANZ is a passionate community of professionals, researchers, policymakers and advocates united by a common vision – creating a healthier, more equitable and sustainable New Zealand.
Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social We are the UK's national academy of academics, learned societies & practitioners in social science & the founder of the Campaign for Social Science. We exist to promote social sciences in the UK for public benefit: www.acss.org.uk
ProfTimLang @proftimlang.bsky.social Centre for Food Policy, City St George’s, University of London. Farmer in 1970s. Researcher and adviser. Author 'Feeding Britain' (Pelican 2020), and 'Just in Case' (report to National Preparedness Commission on civil food resilience, 2025).
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Ulrike Ehgartner @uehgartner.bsky.social Social scientist @UniOfYork | Researcher in sustainability & food systems | Investigating narratives shaping climate action & social change
Mark Driscoll (Tasting the Future) @mark-driscoll.bsky.social Sustainable Food Systems Consultant at Tasting the Future (www.tastingthefuture.com), Green Party Councillor (Malvern Hills DC), beekeeper and smallholder with a passion for traditional orchards.
Effie Papargyropoulou @effie25.bsky.social Environmental social scientist from University of Leeds. Interested in sustainable food systems practice, research and policy
Dan Crossley @dancrossley.bsky.social Exec Director, Food Ethics Council. Interested in all things food, sustainability, fairness, ethics, policy and participation.
Supporter of Duchenne UK & Non-exec director of From Babies With Love
@eleanordowding.bsky.social @eleanordowding.bsky.social
@rosiejph.bsky.social @rosiejph.bsky.social
Food Ethics Council @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social Not-for-profit bringing people & organisations together to find ways to unlock contentious issues around food & farming and to nurture food systems that are fair for people, animals & the planet
Visit https://www.foodethicscouncil.org/
Tower Hamlets 24 @towerhamlets24.bsky.social News reports & pictures from Tower Hamlets
*NOTE (Not any Association with Tower Hamlets Council )
Giles Yeo @gilesyeo.bsky.social MBE; Professor at University of Cambridge, Wolfson College, food intake & #obesity; Broadcaster; Author, #WhyCaloriesDontCount out now; on Instagram & Threads @gilesyeo
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social An alliance of 150+ organizations that advocates for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources, and rural communities.
Website: https://sustainableagriculture.net/
Dee Woods @deewoods.bsky.social Food and Farming Actionist, Urban Afroecologist, Earth Wisdom Keeper and Policy Advocate working for food justice and food sovereignty for everyone everywhere.
Glen Tarman @glentarman.bsky.social Director of Policy and Advocacy at Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
Martin Lines @linesmartin.bsky.social Arable farmer and farming contractor near St Neots Cambridgeshire. CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network. https://www.nffn.org.uk/
Abi Reader @abireader.bsky.social Farmer, Deputy President NFU Cymru, confounder of CowsOnTour, promoting rural life & rural issues, Wales
Sustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social A global voice for the Sustainable Food Movement, founded by Patrick Holden. Working to accelerate the transition to more sustainable food and farming.
🔗 https://sustainablefoodtrust.org
Craig Bennett @craigbennett3.bsky.social CEO of The Wildlife Trusts, UK.
Advisory Commissioner, 2030 Clean Power Commission. Senior Associate, CISL. Associate Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Judge, The Wainwright Prize.
Formerly CEO Friends of the Earth
Tim G Benton @timgbenton.bsky.social Independent, formerly Research Director at Chatham House and professor at University of Leeds. Food-climate-nature-politics-sustainability
Sabine Goodwin @sabinegoodwin.bsky.social Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) Director | Anti-poverty campaigner advocating for #cashfirst or income-focused solutions to food insecurity and an end for the need for charitable food aid in the UK | Opinion pieces - www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/opinion
@sharonfrieloz.bsky.social @sharonfrieloz.bsky.social
Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social Dietitian & Public Health Nutritionist at Teesside University.
Deputy Director for Fuse https://fuse.ac.uk/
Researching Food Inequalities & Insecurity, Food Environments, Energy Drinks.
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/amelia-lake
Ted Greiner @tedgreiner.bsky.social Retired nutrition professional, editor of World Nutrition (https://worldnutritionjournal.org/index.php/wn), the journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association. Dual citizen of US and Sweden, living in Brazil.
May van Schalkwyk @maizie333.bsky.social Public health doctor & Research Fellow researching the commercial determinants of health @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social.
Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social Professor@University of Sheffield. Food systems, nutrition, sustainability, equity, economics, policy & interdisciplinarity; plants, rabbits, cool jazz, languages. Learning Welsh.
Marion Nestle @marionnestle.bsky.social Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, & Public Health, New York University, Emerita, and author of books about food politics.
Erik Mathijs @erikmathijs.bsky.social Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at KU Leuven. Food systems. Healthy and sustainable diets. Regenerative agriculture. True cost accounting
Philippe Baret @pbaret.bsky.social Bioengineer PhD -prof UCLouvain Belgium in system analysis and agroecology. Research on Transition of food systems with www.sytra.be team. #agroecology www.philagri.net- C Chris Barrett @cbb2cornell.bsky.social Cornell agricultural/development/resource economist. Long suffering Orioles fan. Dad of 5. Luke 12:48.
Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social Professor at Tufts University, but all posts and views are my own. Food policy, nutrition, humanitarian action, international development, economics, public health, science.
Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
Grim Art Group @grimartgroup.bsky.social #GrimArt - the beauty & value of the everyday, the ordinary & the overlooked; industrial landscapes, whippets & wastelands, red bricks & rust. #art #photography
Global Alliance for the Future of Food @futureoffood.bsky.social A strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working
together and with others to transform global food systems.
Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, whose research is on the feminist political ecology of agrarian change, livelihoods and food systems.
Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures |
Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landscapes
Jacobo Grajales @jacobograjales.bsky.social Professor @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social ; political science / environmental conflict / agrarian studies
Annie Shattuck @ashattuck.bsky.social Geography @IU. Agrarian studies, agroecology, toxics, health. A decent rural future for all.
Sarah Rotz @sarahrotz.bsky.social Professor, EUC, York University; political ecologist; land & food studies; anti-colonial scholar/activist. she/her. settler. feminist. #foodjustice #climatejustice.
Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social Food rights advocate. Proud to serve as @IATP ED. Posts are not organizational endorsements (nor mine, necessarily).
Stefano Ponte @stefanoponte.bsky.social Power, Inequality & Sustainability in Business & the Economy / Prof. of IPE at Copenhagen Business School /
Co-editor Review of Int. Political Economy / New book out in 2025: “Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass.” Born @ 323 ppm
Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com Environmental economist | land-use🚜🌱 behaviour & policy | social–ecol modelling | ast prof @ufz.de & @unihalle.bsky.social | tea addict🫖 | jazz aficionado🎷 | Linux user | komischer Kauz | posts in 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇵🇱
https://bartoszbartk.com
staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/vast-spaces-without-reprieve
Janina Grabs @janinagrabs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sustainability Research at University of Basel, PhD in Political Science. Sustainable food systems and global value chains; ☕ ,🌴,🌳
Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social Writing about food and ag for the Open Markets Institute / Food & Power. Foodandpower.net
Hazel Healy @hazelhealy.bsky.social UK Editor in Chief at DeSmog. Investigations into climate and food politics.
Peter Newell @peternewell.bsky.social Academic, activist, lover of nature, football, drums & dogs
Michelle Jurkovich @mjurkovich.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ UMassBoston. Food Security, IR, and Ethics.
New book: http://bit.ly/2Zjuvpo
William Moseley @williamgmoseley.bsky.social DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography & Food, Agriculture & Society Program Director at Macalester College | Prez American Association of Geographers |Past Prez Mande Studies Association | Africa, Food Security, Agriculture, Agroecology, Political Ecology
Ben Lilliston @benlilliston.bsky.social Tracking the intersection of trade, climate and farm policy. @iatp.bsky.social
Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social Author of Hidden Politics in the UN SDGs & Professor @ Moo U and President of UGFA - critical thoughts on commodities, sustainability & CSR + check out www.theicsdp.org and https://adamsneyd.com
Marc Edelman @marcedelman.bsky.social #CUNY #anthropology prof #AgrarianStudies #HumanRights #ESCR
#EnvironmentalJustice #NuestraAmérica
#Peace
Madeleine Fairbairn @landstuff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UCSC. Author of: "Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush" (2020, Cornell University Press). Sociology of agriculture, land justice, agri-food tech, financialization.
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social Professor studying contentious climate debates, climate urgency, 'Climateflation', and society-environment relations (and all things Canada 🇨🇦). Co-Host http://EcopoliticsPodcast.ca Views are my own (not my employer's)!
Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social Tracking emerging tech, corporate power, food systems, biodiversity and occasional glimmers of hope and humanity. Fan of good lyrics and kickass poetry.
Laure Gosselin @lauregosselin.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Pol Sci @universitelaval.bsky.social & TU Dresden. Critical IR. Discourse Analysis. Norm Contestation.
Can talk for hours about environmental justice in global governance & how to develop more sustainable food systems.
Laurens Klerkx @laurensklerkx.bsky.social Principal scientist Universidad de Talca & professor of agrifood innovation & transition Wageningen University. Food systems transformation, digital agriculture. Editor JAEE, Agricultural Systems
Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social Member, Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
Professorial Fellow,
Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk
Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition & Health Equity, University of Sussex, UK
Matt Canfield @mattcanfield.bsky.social
Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Europe. Associate Professor @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Books: "The Making of Mămăligă", "Networks, Narratives and Nations", “Un boem la Bucureşti” &c.
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
Gawain @niawag.bsky.social Writing some stuff here: https://niawag.substack.com
Isabelle Vagneron @isavagneron.bsky.social Economist at CIRAD | food systems | transitions | sustainability standards & certification | commodities | smallholder farmers | Lao PDR | Bhutan
Sirisha Naidu @sirishanaidu.bsky.social Feminist political economist, radio host & producer, prof of Economics. Ag studies, labor, environment, development
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sirisha-Naidu
Juanita Uribe @uribejuanita.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher Geneva Graduate Institute | Visiting Fellow EUI | Doing research on the politics of multistakeholderism & the political economy of knowledge
Josh Sbicca @joshsbicca.bsky.social Author | Dreamer | Builder
Associate Professor of Sociology | Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab
https://joshuasbicca.com | https://prisonagriculture.com/
Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social RN, IBCLC, MPH (Nutrition), PhD Candidate @ Uni of Sydney School of Public Health - Advancing Global Food Security for Infants and Young Children.
#infantfeeding #breastfeeding #firstfoodsecurity
National Coordinator - WBTiAUS.
Micah @micah12.bsky.social Dutchy 🇳🇱 | Socio-economist climate adaptation & migration l equity & well-being | water💧& social justice | nature. Fighting disinformation & pro-democracy | US politics 💙 | lived in CO 🇺🇸and BRU 🇧🇪 | dog-lover 🐶 | mom of 3 | 🚲 #1 bike city
Felipe Infante 🌎🇨🇱 @felinfante.bsky.social 🌎 Anthropologist interested in socio-ecological systems, political ecology and social network analysis
🇨🇱 Antropólogo interesado en sistemas socioecológicos, ecología política y análisis de redes sociales
U.S. Right to Know @usrighttoknow.bsky.social We investigate corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health, environment and food system.
Follow our public health reporting: www.usrtk.org
Emily Reisman @emilyreisman.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Environment & Sustainability at the University at Buffalo.
STS + Political Economy + Agroecology.
Book: The Almond Paradox, coming soon!
IPES-Food @ipes-food.org We are the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) : a global think-tank guiding action for #sustainable #foodsystems around the world.🌍
🌱 Follow us for all things #food, #hunger, #climate.
➡️ https://ipes-food.org
UK Parliament @ukparliament.parliament.uk Where the House of Commons and the House of Lords scrutinise the work of the Government. Learn more about Parliament, its people and our unique heritage.
linktr.ee/ukparliament
House of Lords @houseoflords.parliament.uk News & information from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. Produced by its staff to show how the Lords checks and challenges the UK government.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/
House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is a CGIAR research center (@cgiar.org). www.ifpri.org
International Livestock Research Institute @ilri.org The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) supports better lives, better planet through livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR centre. #OneCGIAR
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
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