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Kelly Parsons

@kellyparsons.bsky.social
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Post-doc #foodpolicy researcher. Role of policymaking processes and governance structures in #foodsystems. What's in the policy toolbox for transforming #foodsystems. Food #systemsthinking. Food #policycoherence. Kellyparsons.co.uk. @thefoodrules

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IMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The latest UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) report, covering 2019-2023, finds that key dietary recommendations are still not being met by many in the population, with those in the most deprived areas tending to have poorer diets. Read more at buff.ly/U3eIVr9 🧵 (1/2)
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National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2019 to 2023 highlights dietary deficiencies and inequalities - MRC Epidemiology Unit
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has published the latest report from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), which shows results for 2019-2023.  The NDNS is […]
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Spending Review settlement for DEFRA: capital spend up (flood defences) but resource spend down Seems to cut ELMs funding (as rumoured) - no details yet, assume SFI being re-targeted. Basic Payments wound down But will continue to be a separate pot of funding for peat + trees worth 'up to £400m'
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#foodpolicy loophole
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UK supermarkets exploit tax loophole to produce cider at ‘pocket-money prices’
Campaigners say ‘super-strength subsidy’ puts pressure on the NHS, as some ciders cost same as apple juice
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LindsayGrahamUK @lindsaygrahamuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
👓👇#Freeschoolmeals
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thanks for inviting me to to contribute to the chaper on #foodpolicy coherence @jeremyfarr.bsky.social, the #foodsystems report is epic and with great visuals too
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
'Next year’s presidential election seems to be weighing on his mind more than November’s Cop30 climate summit in Belém'
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Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry
Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
theguardian.com
Sweet dreams: dessert parlours help to revive UK’s high streets
Market thought to be worth more than £500m as diners seek cheaper alternatives to the pub or a meal out
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
'...the government needed something like a climate security centre to feed these arguments into the decision-making process around security matters rather than delegating them to other departments such as Defra' #foodsystems #foodpolicy
theguardian.com
UK must consider food and climate part of national security, say top ex-military figures
Former army and navy leaders urge government to think beyond military capability in advance of key defence review
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Important research #foodsystems #foodpolicy
theguardian.com
Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers
The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
V lucky that hyperlocal journalism is alive and well in our area, and the latest edition of Tower Hamlets Slice is a food special! 😃 #foodsystems
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Very excited to have this on my doorstep
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Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&A’s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers
The Victoria & Albert’s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its ‘order an object’ service and gets intimate with some national treasures – including ‘the bigge...
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Government’s AI peatland map ridiculed for confusing bog with rock
Farmers and residents across the country were quick to spot inaccuracies in Defra’s map — and worry that policy decisions will be erroneous
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Was just coming on here to say the same. Best bit of writing I have read for a while, thank you @archiebland.bsky.social
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
'the project had taken a singular, “whole-system” approach in targeting children and families, community organisations, schools and the environment, ensuring “it’s the people within the locality that are making the decisions”'
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Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity
JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For anyone else looking for a link to the MAHA report, the go-to source for any food-related political news is @hbottemiller.bsky.social, and her newsletter, @foodfixco.bsky.social, has it. If you don't subscribe, you should! Her link is here. foodfix.co/wp-content/u...
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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If FT are right about this announcement it will be yet another example of ambitious public health policy being announced and then quietly watered down before implementation
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Looking forward to participating in this webinar with @ipes-food.org colleagues and moderated by @thinink.bsky.social on June 3! Do join us! Details below ⬇️
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Love this
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 21/05/2025
Trussell food banks reported a 46% increase in emergency food parcels provided for families with children compared to five years ago.
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Food banks urge Labour to rethink benefit cuts amid surge in demand
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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Happening at 4pm today! You can attend online or in person at the Oxford Martin School.
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Nice way to learn about ingredients...
theguardian.com
The best ingredients to buy in Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Polish stores – by the cooks and foodies who shop there
From fresh noodles and frozen lotus buns to smoked country sausages and pandan leaves, these are the brands the experts swear by (and where to get them online)
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
👀 #foodpolicy #foodsystems
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
In a workshop on role of chefs in sustainable diets, low emission menus, hoping to gain (and share) insights re. @ukri.org #foodsystemsspf Mandala project on institutional catering in Birmingham #foodsystems
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What can be done to support professional cookery, by #foodpolicy and practice?
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Why is professional cookery not represented on the Defra Food Strategy advisory board? #foodpolicy not encompassing all activities in #foodsystems
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Great to see a reference to The Bear in the opening remarks at today's #foodpolicy symposium, @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social #foodsystems
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Centre for Food Policy @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
For anyone who missed Professor Kevin Morgan's excellent #FoodThinkers last month; the recording is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. This is essential viewing for anyone joining our City Food Policy Symposium tomorrow! #CityFoodSym 👩‍🍳 👇 youtu.be/F3q0I-6opwk
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April 2025 Food Thinkers: Kevin Morgan
YouTube video by Centre for Food Policy
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
👀 #foodsystems #foodpolicy
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High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation jointly undermine food systems, with the most severe impacts on marginalized communities. These interlinked crises threaten all six dimensions of food security. 📄Read more in the new HLPE-FSN note👇
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New HLPE-FSN note: Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation through the right to food
These interlinked crises threaten all six dimensions of food security
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So interesting, and the prices are 🤯
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
theguardian.com
Closure of post-Brexit subsidies wrongly blocked 3,000 English farmers from funding
Sustainable farming initiative is part of payment package that replaced EU’s common agricultural policy
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
theguardian.com
Toxic tofu? How plastic waste from the west fuels food factories in Indonesia
Tofu factory owners in Indonesia’s East Java feed their boilers with tonnes of foreign plastics each week to produce tofu sold in the region
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
theguardian.com
‘Food is medicine’: Mississippi grocery store revitalizes its majority-Black town with fresh produce
Through a new food access initiative, J’s Grocery provides its Clarksdale community with hard-to-come-by crops
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Impact on Urban Health @impurbanhealth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📋🍊 Could you work with @sustainweb.org to evaluate Good Food Local? More info and apply today 👇
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) @besnet.world · 02/05/2025
🌿 How do Indigenous Peoples shape global solutions? Join the upcoming webinar by @ipbes.net , @unesco.org and the Centres of Distinction on Indigenous and Local Knowledge to explore their role in the #NexusAssessment. 🗓️ 15 May 🕑 2–4 p.m. (Paris) unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
theguardian.com
Glut of early fruit and veg hits UK as climate change closes ‘hungry gap’
Warm weather means strawberries, aubergines and tomatoes have come weeks earlier than expected
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Prof Brennan has lots of experience of + insights into Scottish #foodpolicy #foodsystems. It is a pleasure being part of her research project on delivery of the good food nation policy: lgfn-lab.business-school.ed.ac.uk
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Living Good Food Nation Lab
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Funded PhD opp #foodsystems #foodpolicy
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Nancy Hey @worklifeyou.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A year ago What Works Wellbeing published its last projects including a bumper review of both interventions effectiveness (many & growing) & analytical determinants for overall wellbeing - life satisfaction The gap between the two is important & quite big. whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/new-fin...
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» New findings on what works to improve life satisfaction
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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Counting butterflies in two contrasting sites, 200m apart: arable vs grassland. Sounds unfair? The latter was arable too, just until recently. Being inside the rapeseed field is a strong experience: so many flowers, so few insects... Wanna join? We need many more sites! 15 min, 3 visits would do.
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Do's and Don'ts of conducting a policy review ✍️ @jillongovt.bsky.social
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The Do's and Don'ts of conducting a policy review
Imagine you are a paid-up member of the great and the good – a business leader, a former minister, a distinguished academic. You get a call (or a W...
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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🛒 Did you know #climatechange has led to some food products doubling in price? Our latest project will explore climate-driven price hikes and the impact on disadvantaged communities. 🎧 Find out more: bit.ly/4jkvkpx #foodprices #CostOfLivingCrisis
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rural communities could be destroyed if UK signs US trade deal, says former food tsar
Exclusive: Henry Dimbleby joins farmers in voicing fears of lower standards and a poor deal for British food producers
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Bad news for #foodsystems #foodpolicy
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Missed this yesterday: @henrydimbleby.bsky.social interview was spot on about both the economics and politics of our failing food system and remedies that may work. Hope Defra is listening as it prepares its forthcoming UK food strategy. Interview from 2:34:25 here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Today - 14/04/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat
Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industry
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Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Brilliant to see Braun & Clarke 2006 qual research paper on thematic analysis in this list! 👏🏻 and to read their story behind the paper...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.
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