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Bhavani Shankar

@bhavanishankar.bsky.social
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Professor@University of Sheffield. Food systems, nutrition, sustainability, equity, economics, policy & interdisciplinarity; plants, rabbits, cool jazz, languages. Learning Welsh.

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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Had to get this t-shirt when I spotted it.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Jam tomorrow!
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Food system inequalities are alive and thriving. on.ft.com/4kFb6rb
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The controversial return of Brazil’s billionaire beef barons
The world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, listed in New York on Friday, marking a dramatic turnaround for the Batista brothers
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Against the grain: as prices and temperatures rise, can Japan learn to love imported rice? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Against the grain: as prices and temperatures rise, can Japan learn to love imported rice?
The political and cultural insulation of Japan’s beloved grain is falling apart, and experts warn the country’s relationship with the staple will have to adapt
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
INFUSION project & Jeevika have been collaborating on an innovative healthy food market concept. Now, we are on the threshold of launching our 1st pilot 'Jeevika Didi Haat' in Telhara, Nalanda. Excited to, quite literally, be on the map! @anhacademy.bsky.social
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Mostly plant-based water bottle, well done Virgin Atlantic. Next frontier, plastic-free cap!
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ANH Academy Science-Policy Platform @anhacademy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🌍 Join #ANH2025 for 2 weeks of learning, sharing, networking & action on food systems, agriculture, nutrition & health! 🌱 In-person in Tanzania 🇹🇿 or 💻 online. 🗓️ June 16–26, 2025 🎟️ Register now: www.anh-academy.org/academy-week... ✈️ Visa deadline: May 15! youtu.be/im3NATjjo04?...
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds
About 14% of premature deaths in England attributable to unhealthy food, the most among surveyed countries
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The wholegrain revolution! How Denmark changed the diet – and health – of their entire nation www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The wholegrain revolution! How Denmark changed the diet – and health – of their entire nation
Is it possible to make a country healthier one slice of rye bread at a time? If the rocketing wholegrain consumption of the Danes is anything to go by, absolutely
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Being a Tamilian, taken at face value this means I might well live to be 200. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A tub a day: might eating yoghurt help you live longer?
When the world’s oldest woman passed away at 117, much was made of her three yoghurts a day diet. But what role does yoghurt actually play in longevity?
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
RCT evidence highlights the value of traditional diets in mitigating chronic disease risk in sub-Saharan Africa. rdcu.be/egl6p
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Immune and metabolic effects of African heritage diets versus Western diets in men: a randomized controlled trial
Nature Medicine - A randomized crossover trial showed that transition to a Western diet resulted in pro-inflammatory changes, whereas transition to an African heritage diet rich in fruits and...
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ANH Academy Science-Policy Platform @anhacademy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We recently interviewed nutrition & food policy expert @stuartgillespie.bsky.social to discuss his new book exploring the food system’s colonial roots & neoliberal challenges, concluding with a call to prioritise people and the planet. 🌍 Dive into his insights and reflections 📎 bit.ly/3FNmWjx
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A group of us had the opportunity to draft policy recommendations for the forthcoming Nutrition for Growth Summit #N4GParis. The recommendations of the Independent Panel of Experts convened by @ParisPeaceForum is linked below.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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A chance for world leaders to end malnutrition and save lives | Letter
Letter: Parliamentarians from the UK and France urge governments to make strong pledges at the nutrition summit in Paris this week
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say
Fruit variety developed in Norwich remains fresh for up to 12 hours after being peeled
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia
Ethiopia was the largest recipient of US aid assistance in sub-Saharan Africa before Donald Trump froze funding last month. From food and health to support for refugees and sexual abuse survivors, we ...
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Development economics has seen a huge renaissance in the last couple of decades, and yet developing country representation in authorship remains disturbingly low. The global distribution of authorship in economics journals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The global distribution of authorship in economics journals
We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels and trends o…
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Eeshani Kandpal @eeshani.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a cash transfer that increased prices? I spoke with @voxdev.bsky.social about what recent research tells us about the price effects of cash transfers and how to reconcile various findings that at times appear to be at odds with each other. @cgdev.org
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
'The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, And everyday the paper boy brings more...'
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New Blog: Food markets at the forest margins in Keonjhar, Odisha sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Professor Bhavani Shankar - Keonjhar markets
In December 2024, a couple of us from the Indian Food Systems for Improved Nutrition (INFUSION) project spent a few days in Keonjhar (or Kendujhar) District in Odisha. We were there to do a bit of sco...
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What, me worry? #easylikesundaymorning
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ouagadougou fights climate change with....vegetables! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city
A green belt circling the capital of Burkina Faso is preparing the country for the climate crisis
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
#easylikeSundaymorning
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is as it should be. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ja...
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Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza
Pizzeria adds eye-watering price-tag to divisive Hawaiian variant to put customers off ordering it
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Indonesia is poised to launch a massive free school meals programme, placing improved child nutrition at the heart of their long-term economic growth strategy. @anhacademy.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6920...
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Indonesia places a $28bn bet on free school meals
President Prabowo Subianto wants to cater for 82mn students and pregnant mothers to boost growth and attainment
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Professor Andrew Dorward, renowned scholar in agricultural development economics, passed away a few days back. A small tribute to him below. @anhacademy.bsky.social www.anh-academy.org/community/bl...
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In memory of Professor Andrew Dorward: A personal reflection
In memory of Professor Andrew Dorward
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
David Lodge captured the essence of British academic life so accurately and funnily in his campus novels. But he also wrote funny & moving non-campus books about the human, and particularly, the British condition. Thanks for the joy you gave your readers! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89
The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
'Fredo, I love you...' and 'You broke my heart, Fredo'. #learningwelsh #duolingo
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Food markets we've visited recently feature Handiya, the fermented rice drink. The fermentation starter/accelerator is Bakhar (picture) - a rice+herb mixture dried until it resembles whitish pebbles. Handiya has less than 2% alcohol content, but puts everyone is a mellow mood!
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is cool work debunking longstanding myths regarding the geography of diets and longevity. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
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The secret of ‘Blue Zones’ where people reach 100? Fake data, says academic
University College London researcher is on a mission to debunk shoddy research into the world’s oldest people.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The junk food crisis harming Britain’s children - on.ft.com/4gRUMky via @FT
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The junk food crisis harming Britain’s children
As their diets worsen, young people are suffering increasing levels of malnutrition and obesity. Can the UK turn the tide?
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
INFUSION project and @brlps_jeevika are piloting the innovative concept of healthy rural food markets, 'Didi Haat'. Last week we were in Telhara in Nalanda, Bihar, planning the first haat with our design partners Design Jatra.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The inequality in resources for competitive exams & higher education in India is a debilitating one. @brlps_jeevika colleagues have been working tirelessly on a 'Didi ki Library' intervention that is making impressive strides in addressing this disparity. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
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In Bihar, libraries as windows to the world
Bihar's Didi ki Libraries provide free books, internet, and support for rural students aspiring for higher education and careers.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Tap your phone to buy a cauliflower. Simples. - Islampur haat, Nalanda District, Bihar
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
WARNING! Graphic images of luscious vegetables at food markets - at Islampur haat, Nalanda District, Bihar.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Birmingham airport has the Xmas spirit going (volume)!
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Some lovely words from Richard Murphy to end the work week. #poetry
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
And still they lead me back To the long and winding road Cerdded mynyddoedd y Cambrian. Walking the western edge of the Cambrian mountains.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Our student union at University of Sheffield runs a brilliant zero waste shop, offering packaging-free refills of breakfast cereals, nuts, snacks, detergent, etc.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
More power to Professor Bishop. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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The Tony ™ @tonysadowski.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The best post-election political analysis I’ve seen.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” -Shakespeare
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Some Mary Oliver on this threshold of winter.
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Samira Choudhury @samirac.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Why caste plays a role in childhood stunting in India
A new study finds that caste plays a vital role in high rates of stunting in children in India.
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Bhavani Shankar @bhavanishankar.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Very cool, a train cooperative! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Green signal given for first UK co-operatively owned railway service
Regulator approves bid by open-access operator Go-op to run trains in south-west England from late next year
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Will Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our new #Fellowships from @anhacademy.bsky.social offer a year of funding to bring recent #research into #policy decisions in #SubSaharanAfrica or #SouthAsia, via placement in a policy organization. Aim is healthier diets, less food loss & waste, climate & equity. www.anh-academy.org/science-poli...
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ANH Academy Science-Policy Fellowships
The Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy is pleased to announce our new Science-Policy Fellowships, funding three researchers for one year of full time work to support evidence-based decisions by a...
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