Linking local and global food systems for more healthy and sustainable communities
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The ingredients: making the most of our food supplies
Let’s talk data. I have mentioned a couple of times that in this project I’ll be using national food balance sheets to assess countries’ diet quality – or how aligned …
The index: short and bittersweet?
Here’s a challenge for the kitchen, and my fledgling wordsmithery: what would you make if you wanted to blend a bunch of ingredients together, but then be able to take …
Working (in) the system: a new review
Last week I wrote a bit about food systems approaches, to contextualise my project: why we’re looking at diets, and why looking at diets isn’t enough to transform food systems …
Working (in) the system: looking at diets in context
Now it’s the end of my fourth (!) week at CIAT, in Cali-Palmira, Colombia, I think it might be time to explain a little why I am here—or rather, why …
A diet to sustain ourselves, sustainably?
So we can’t have our cake and eat it too. What if we change the recipe? This week’s Food Climate Research Council (FCRN) newsletter revisits Tara Garnett’s 2014 discussion paper …
Measuring diet quality: with a side of alphabet soup
We know diet is important to human health. Across the world, around 800 million people are undernourished —going hungry because they do not have access to enough food to meet …
What is an ideal diet anyway?
It’s easy to assume we know what healthy eating looks like. Think, an apple vs a packet of chips. While we’re probably on the right track, when it comes to …