People of Permanence I may be known for bouncing around a bit. Those of you who know me are probably grinning right now. Growing up, my family moved a lot. By the time I was 16, my parents had moved ...

Benjamin Davis says the FAO forced him out because of his work on Gaza. In an interview, he discusses why he’s not staying silent and what others can do.

I am very excited to have started the fall semester at SAIS Europe, Johns Hopkins, here in Bologna. I am teaching two classes: Global Food Systems and Security: Policy, Politics and Power Food S...

Aquatic invertebrates are exceptionally nutrient dense, supplying the equivalent annual vitamin B12 and selenium requirements for over 5 billion people.

Ferragosto arrives like a held breath. In Italy, it settles over the country in early to mid-August, when the heat is thick (thanks to this fifth heat dome, because apparently Mother Earth is done bei...

Ferragosto arrives like a held breath. In Italy, it settles over the country in early to mid-August, when the heat is thick (thanks to this fifth heat dome, because apparently Mother Earth is done bei...

Diets affect both human and planetary health. Recent research reveals how dietary footprints vary across demographic groups and offers new data and methods for future studies.

Someone sent me this new interactive site. from Our World in Data: How does food get traded around the world?  It's fun and useful. Scroll down the page until you come to the impossibly complicated chart on global maize trade in 2023.  Ignore it. Above it are places where you can type in the product you want to look at, and the country that imports or exports it.

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FOOD BYTES IS A (ALMOST) MONTHLY BLOG POST OF “NIBBLES” ON ALL THINGS CLIMATE change, FOOD systems, & NUTRITION SCIENCE, POLICY, AND CULTURE. It’s been a while since I wrote a Food Bytes post....

Expensive fuel and fertiliser will lead to smaller harvests and higher prices

Hi, my dear readers — I took a brief sabbatical from the Food Archive, a self-imposed intermission of sorts. I’m back now, fortified and oddly calm. Recently, I gave a talk at CIMMYT titled “Catalyst...

Trigger warning: This blog has nothing to do about food! Ironically, last month I posted a blog about hued grief—reflecting on what has been lost in the past year in the U.S. What I didn’t mention i...

What we eat and how we grow our food matters, not just for our own health but also that of our planet, a global report finds. World-renowned nutritionist Jessica Fanzo explains the implications as she...

2025 has finally come to a close, and what a year it has been. For many, the last 365 days (well, + the beginnings of 2026…) have felt like an endless hellscape of despair, marked by one shocking and ...

A new lawsuit likens food companies to the tobacco industry. But it’s much harder to do something about junk food than cigarettes.

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

The United Nations says the world needs a new way of thinking about environmental crises threatening the health of people and the planet

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