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IPES-Food is branching out. You can now catch us on @bluesky!🦋
Follow "@ipes-food.org" for our continued analysis on #foodsystems, #agroecology, #hunger, and #sustainability.
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🛢️ 99% of synthetic nitrogen #fertilizers are derived from fossil fuels.
When energy prices spike, farmers and food prices feel the impact.
🌱 Climate philanthropy can help break this dependence and build more resilient food systems.
👉 ipes-food.org/follow-the-fue…
#FuelToFork
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🌍 This #WorldFoodDay, let’s recognise the women who keep us fed.
Women perform 76% of unpaid care work – cooking, feeding, caring for families.
This essential work is invisible & undervalued.
It’s time to value #FoodWork paid & unpaid.
⚒️ Our report ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
ALT Unpaid care work underpins food work. 76% of unpaid care work that sustains life is undertaken by women. IPES-Food
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What happens when billionaire philanthropists fail? Who holds them accountable?
The Gates Foundation invested $1.5bn in African industrial agriculture. Fertilisers doubled. Hunger rose.
Yet the programme keeps getting more funding.
@_RajPatel in @FT
ft.com/content/fff4d860-5652…
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🎧2 years ago our #FuelToFork podcast explored how dependent our food is on fossil fuels.
Now disruption in the Gulf is putting that dependence back in the spotlight.
What’s changed? Are our food systems any better prepared for the next shock?
👉LISTEN ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork/#…
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What does an oil shock have to do with food prices?
🎧A new #FuelToFork podcast episode explores how fossil fuel & fertilizer disruptions ripple through #FoodSystems – & whether we’re ready for the next shock?
🎙️Dire Straits: Hormuz, Fertilizers & Food
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IPES-Food retweeted
Migrant farmworkers face exploitation and abuse that would be unimaginable for native workers: housed in poor conditions, paid poverty wages, and working in often dangerous conditions, says Olivier De Schutter, @IPESfood ipsnews.net/2026/10/workers-…
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🌍 We’ve entered a new era of food crises. Our food systems is not built to withstand them.
Decades of dependence on volatile global markets and fragile supply chains have made our food system vulnerable to shocks.
We need new economics of #resilience
ipes-food.org/the-new-geopol…
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Food worker exploitation is not inevitable.
Our #FoodWork report sets out 5 priorities for change:
✊ Build worker power
⚖️ Secure decent work
🛂 Equal rights for migrant workers
🏢 Rein in corporate power
❤️ Value food work
👉 Read the report: ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
ALT 5 priorities for dignified food work 1. Build worker power 2. Secure decent work 3. Equal rights for migrant workers 4. Rein in corporate power 5. Value food work IPES-Food
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1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like?
1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork
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ALT More people work in food systems than any other part of the global economy. Nearly 1.4 billion people work in food systems - 2 out of every 5 workers
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1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like?
1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork
ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
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ALT More people work in food systems than any other part of the global economy. Nearly 1.4 billion people work in food systems - 2 out of every 5 workers
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3/ And pressures are intensifying:
🌡️ Climate change is making work more dangerous
📱 AI & surveillance are creating new forms of control
🏢 Corporate concentration is weakening worker power
ALT Six forces worsening food worker exploitation. Gender, class and race-based discrimination; restrictive migration policies; consolidated corporate power; digital technologies; climate breakdown; weakened public oversight.
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4/4 But exploitation is not inevitable.
When food workers organize, they win better pay, safer workplaces & stronger rights.
Good food should never depend on poverty wages, unsafe work or invisible labour.
Read our new report #FoodWork: ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
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Our food systems cannot function without workers. So why are so many exploited?
Low pay. Unsafe work. Insecure jobs. Wage theft. Forced labour.
Our new #FoodWork report exposes the exploitation running through the global food chain, and how to end it.
ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
ALT Exploitation is rife across the entire food chain
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⚒️ Behind every meal is someone’s work. But what is that work really like?
1.4 billion people work in food systems – yet no other sector exploits more workers.
Our new #FoodWork report exposes why: exploitation is built into the system.
👉 ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
ALT FOOD WORK: The workers behind our food and the exploitation they face 👉 https://ipes-food.org/report/food-work/
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🚨 NEW REPORT: The world’s largest workforce is also its most exploited.
1.4 billion people – 2 in 5 workers worldwide – work in food systems. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector.
Read & share #FoodWork:
ipes-food.org/report/food-wo…
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Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what's that work really like?
📆 Join us 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across food systems.
What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all?
👉 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
ALT FOOD WORK. Webinar. 5 October 2026. 13:00 UTC Report Launch. The workers behind our food and the exploitation they face. REGISTER NOW! IPES-Food
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Fired from the FAO for attending a Gaza protest - Thin Lei Win reports on Benjamin Davis’ commitment to ending hunger for all thenewhumanitarian.org/inter…
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It IS making healthy diets harder to afford. But it is not just about money. It is harder to produce and reproduce life, which is even worse!
Climate crisis isn’t just making food costlier. It may be making healthy diets harder to afford.
Extreme weather is driving price spikes in fruit, vegetables and other nutritious foods – pushing families towards cheaper, less nutritious alternatives.
zerocarbon-analytics.org/nat…
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Africa’s neglected crops are finally getting attention.
But changing the crops without changing the system is not enough.
“Africa’s crops do not need rescuing from African farmers. They need investment that puts farmers at the center" says @Million_Belay commondreams.org/opinion/afr…
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