IPES-Food

Hi friends, 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. Come join the conversation. ➡️bsky.app/profile/ipes-f… #Xodus

Farmers are already building soil fertility, cutting reliance on synthetic fertilizers, and growing more resilient systems. This is #agroecology – and it works. As long as food depends on fossil fuels, hunger will always be one shock away. ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to…

This is the deeper issue: Our #foodsystem is hooked on fossil fuels. 🛢️A system tied to the price of oil means shocks in energy markets quickly become food crises. This vulnerability is built in. It's a choice. 🌱 It doesn’t have to be this way.

🌍 The fertilizer crisis unfolding following conflict in the #Gulf is a warning of a food price crisis to come. ➡️ A food system tied to the price of oil ➡️ Rising input costs for farmers ➡️ Higher and volatile food prices ➡️ Growing #hunger #Hormuz #fertilizer

The Gates Foundation, and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, don't seem to like it when they're held to their own standards. Tim Wise reports on the fate of an independent evaluation of their African work. theelephant.info/analysis/2026/…

🐘How do we confront power in food systems? If we want transformation, we need to tackle who controls land, data & decisions. Join us 25 March with @TheNewSchool, @SlowFoodHQ & others. 📅 15:00 CET | ONLINE 👉Register event.newschool.edu/theelephantatt… #FoodSystems #FoodSovereignty

What happens when ships start running on food crops? ⚠️Land pressure ⚠️Higher food prices ⚠️Strain on fragile food systems & ecosystems As @IMOHQ rules are shaped, #biofuels risk deepening food insecurity in Africa. 👉ipes-food.org/shippings-biof…

💻Farm data is the new battleground. AI “precision” tools promise empowerment, but risk locking farmers into systems where data is extracted & monetised by #BigAg & #BigTech. “Nature isn’t just data points,” says our @Nettie_Wiebe 🔗civileats.com/2026/03/23/a-h… #HeadInTheCloud

🚢Shipping’s #biofuel push could deepen Africa’s land squeeze & food insecurity. “Burning crops for ships would compound existing injustices” say @suechomba & @Million_Belay As UN rules are set this April, food-based #biofuels must be excluded. 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/shippi…

🛢️The crisis in the Hormuz Strait is not just an energy or war story. It is a #food story, with global consequences. Fertilizer dependency ties #foodsystems to the price of oil. Breaking that dependence is now urgent. @_RajPatel's piece in @CivilEats 👉civileats.com/2026/03/17/op-…

When the Strait of #Hormuz closes, what happens?: ⚡Energy prices spike 📈Fertilizer prices follow 🌾Reduced harvests come a season later. "Food price inflation is brought to you by the price of #oil." ▶️WE NEED TO GET FOSSIL FUELS OUT OF FOOD SYSTEMS! civileats.com/2026/03/17/op-…

“This isn’t just an oil crisis. It’s a food crisis in the making.” #fertilizers The Gulf conflict imperils food security: “We’ve built a food system that rises and falls with the price of #oil” says @_RajPatel It doesn't have to be this way. 👉civileats.com/2026/03/17/op-… @CivilEats

⚠️ Another oil & fertiliser shock. Another food price spike. Industrial agriculture runs on fossil fuels – and that dependency is a political choice. “We didn’t stumble into this dependency. We funded it.” — @_RajPatel 🔗 newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/78ae8436-f60…

🌾Without women, there is no food. From farmers to food workers and community leaders, women sustain #FoodSystems across the world. Yet are denied resources and recognition. On #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate the women who feed the world. 💜 #IWD2026 #WomenInAg

📰 More coverage of our #HeadInTheCloud ☁️ report. As @insideclimate reports, #BigTech-led AI tools are reshaping farming – and concentrating power over seeds, data & decisions. “Who do these technologies benefit?” asks our Lim Li Ching. 🔗 insideclimatenews.org/news/28022026/…

💻 The digital ag market is set to hit $84bn by 2034. But who benefits? @guardian covers our #HeadInTheCloud report. #BigTech's AI farming tools are consolidating control over seeds & inputs. Who decides what we grow: farmers or algorithms? theguardian.com/global-develop…

New report on flaws in big tech promises focussed on a few commodity crops and food companies not health, farmer & ecosystem resilience "digital tools are portrayed as innovative and so easily attract the attention of policymakers and investors" @IPESfood theguardian.com/global-develop…

⚠️ What happens when a war in the Gulf raises bread prices in Africa? “Africa is unlikely to be a military participant… It will, however, be an economic casualty.” – @Million_Belay #Foodsecurity cannot be outsourced to volatile global markets. 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/gulf-cri…

📈Oil prices are surging after escalation around Iran. 🥣Food prices likely next. 1/2 the world’s calories depend on fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. This is a food access issue. 👉 #FuelToFork ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to…

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