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Nicholas Nisbett

@nicknisbett.bsky.social
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Member, Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition & Health Equity, University of Sussex, UK

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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Food systems work perfectly... ...for the handful of multinational corporations who control them, that is 😱 We need to focus less on profit, and more on people and planet. To achieve this we need government action and strong social movements, says @stuartgillespie.bsky.social
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 28/07/2025
What would it take to transform the global food system? Coinciding with #UNFSS2025 we’re sharing a series of videos from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social hosted by IDS. For @philbakernz.bsky.social redistribution of resources to enable more households to access healthy food is the key.
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 29/07/2025
Food systems are unfair, often built on legacies of colonialism. We need improved policies to support people marginalised in food systems, especially those working in fields, factories & hospitality. @deewoods.bsky.social explains how food systems can be changed. @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 30/07/2025
We need to move away from food systems which encourage overconsumption and overproduction, says IDS researcher Lidia Cabral from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social As citizens, how can we reassess our relationship with food to help achieve this change?
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Did last month's #UNFSS conference focus too much on investment for food, and not enough on rights and accountability? Read our co-Director Jody Harris's take on the discussions @justjody23.bsky.social www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/acc...
Quote card which reads: "Corporate concentration in multiple aspects of food systems is part of the problem driving inequitable outcomes, and representatives of many of these corporations were active at the Summit."
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hunger is a crime in South Africa. Who are the criminals? Stephen Devereux of the Food Equity Centre and Mark Heywood identify the accused as the state, supermarkets and privately owned corporate food producers ⬇️ #WorldFoodDay
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Launched in 2024, the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty is playing a crucial role in the fight against hunger and poverty. How is it using evidence to inform policy? Join the Food Equity Centre and the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada to find out: ids-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Text-based graphic which says "Equity-driven evidence for policymaking; Food Equity Centre in conversation with the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty. 6 November 2025 | 13:30-15:00 (UK time), online on Zoom" The FEC and IPEA logos are bottom left
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In case you missed it in your busy inbox (somehow I did!) the Food Equity Centre's fantastic new newsletter is now out - you can view it and sign up (please do!) here mailchi.mp/ids.ac.uk/fo...
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Resilience in food systems should not just be about bouncing back - we need to find ways to bounce forward. On #WorldFoodDay, read about Equitably Transformative Resilience, a new concept proposed by the latest @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social report. www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/equ...
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Equitably Transformative Resilience: how can engaged food scholars take action? - Institute of Development Studies
Next week, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) meets for its 53rd session with a bold new report entitled Building Resilient Food Systems on the agenda. Commissioned by the High-Level Panel of ...
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 24/07/2025
🎙️IDS #Podcast What does it mean to navigate #motherhood while pursuing a postgraduate degree? IDS students Patronela Tshuma, Chaltu Merera Fana, and Akinyi Ochieng speak about their journeys as mothers pursuing higher education. #Gender Listen at: 👉https://ids.pulse.ly/afmp3twszx
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Next in our @foodequitycentre.bsky.social series asking how to transform the food system, @stuartgillespie.bsky.social! thanks again @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
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Colombo Urban Lab @colombourbanlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
HAPPENING TOMORROW Our webinar ‘Boiling Point’ will present findings from our report on heat stress in Colombo, followed by a discussion on extreme heat in South Asia and policy solutions. Time: 6.30pm IST/ 2.00pm UK Click here to join: us02web.zoom.us/j/88231558646
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High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
From the farm to the fork, inequalities exist throughout the entire food system.   📌Addressing inequalities in #foodsecurity and #nutrition lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.   Download your copy of the HLPE-FSN report📘https://f.mtr.cool/xmxvjggzzz
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excited to be presenting in this webinar alongside awesome colleagues on Monday July 14 on Concentrated Corporate Power in Global Food Systems: Consequences and Potential Policy Responses. Info below! 👇 www.unfoodsystemshub.org/latest-updat... @hilalelver.bsky.social @stefanosfotiou.bsky.social
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Event detail | UN Food Systems Coordination Hub
Webinar | 14 July 2025 | 13:30 to 14:30 (CEST)
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
And Phillip Baker:
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Here's Dee Woods once again:
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Next up in our series asking how we can transform global/local food systems - our own (Food Equity Centre and @ids.ac.uk's) Lidia Cabral. Check it out! And thanks again @philbakernz.bsky.social @deewoods.bsky.social for the earlier videos in this series and @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New video 🎬 Modern food systems encourage overconsumption and overproduction. As citizens, we need to reassess our relationship with food. Lidia Cabral offers her take on transforming food systems #sustainablefarming @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social
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Steve Metcalfe @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"Food is for people, and we need to have alternative economic systems that benefit our communities and those people who are underserved in communities" @deewoods.bsky.social shares her vision for transforming food systems in this latest video from the Food Equity Centre
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 25/06/2025
NEW REPORT JUST LAUNCHED! 🛢️Our food system is hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of #climate talks. 🔥Food systems use 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals. #FuelToFork exposes the risks – and lays out real paths to #FossilFreeFood. 👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... #ClimateAction #BigOil
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Fuel To Fork - IPES-Food report
Our food system uses 40% of petrochemicals and 15% of fossil fuels – yet it's left out of the climate conversation. Here's the path to fossil-free food.
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Lots of fantastic food equity related news in our latest newsletter, don't miss it. Sign up!! @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New issue of our newsletter just out! Top story: the relaunch of Consea, the national food and nutrition security council in Brazil Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/ids.ac.uk/fo... Newsletter sign-up 👉 ids.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
A crowd of people in a room, all facing the camera and many of them holding banners
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
INCYMI amazing video here by @deewoods.bsky.social for @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
So grateful to @deewoods.bsky.social for participating in this @foodequitycentre.bsky.social series of films asking what it will take to transform the global food system, with thanks also to filmmakers @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social ! ping also @philbakernz.bsky.social thanks again for yours!
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
People working in food systems - those in fields, in factories and in hospitality need to have their labour fairly compensated. That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social ‪from @landworkersuk.bsky.social ‪ and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It was a pleasure to speak with the team from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social at @ids.ac.uk about transforming the global food system. I was visiting to speak about the global health challenge of ultra-processed foods, and we made this short video 👇 please check out the wonderful work they are doing
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What would it take to transform the global food system? For @philbakernz.bsky.social, redistribution of resources to enable more households to access healthy food is the key. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4q... What actions do you think are needed? #foodjustice #foodsystems
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Transforming food systems: tackling inequality and redistributing resources
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William Moseley @williamgmoseley.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Happy to have contributed an essay on food and conflict in the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg...
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Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society
‘The best educational texts do not lead but rather gesture. They choose to show instead of tell. This book exemplifies that approach. Food is political. I believe this claim is best illustrated throug...
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Chalkstone Films @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s been great working with @nicknisbett.bsky.social and @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social at @ids.ac.uk to develop this series of short films featuring thought provoking insights from food system academia and beyond.
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 11/06/2025
"When the legal threshold for genocide is met, we must call it genocide – and act accordingly." Read the commentary from Martin Griffiths, former UN humanitarian chief and @philipproudfoot.bsky.social ac.pulse.ly/q5ldukwti0
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Steve Metcalfe @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We've got a bunch of video shorts coming out on how food systems need to be transformed. Here's the first! With thanks to @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
first in our series for the @foodequitycentre.bsky.social featuring the incredible @philbakernz.bsky.social ...watch this space for more and thanks to our amazing filmmakers @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New from the Food Equity Centre: Grassroots projects provide more dignified alternative to food banks Read more here: www.ids.ac.uk/news/grassro... @ids.ac.uk
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Grassroots projects provide more dignified alternative to food banks, research suggests - Institute of Development Studies
Innovative grassroots food projects in five cities globally provide a better alternative to foodbanks, suggests new research from IDS.
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High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Join us on Monday! HLPE-FSN Chairperson, @suwa-eisenmann.bsky.social, will present a new note at the @UN_CFS's High-Level Forum "Tackling Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Land Degradation through the Right to Food". Register now! All information and the note👇 www.fao.org/cfs/workstre...
Save the date for the CFS High-Level Forum, on 12 May 2025, in Rome, Italy, titled Tackling Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Land Degradation through the Right to Food.
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tomorrow!!
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 15/04/2025
📣IDS and @foodequitycentre.bsky.social event! Join us for the launch of Food Fight: From plunder and profit to people and planet - a book by food and nutrition expert @stuartgillespie.bsky.social Tuesday 29 April at 16:00 to 17:30. At IDS and online on Zoom. Book: www.ids.ac.uk/events/food-...
This is a photo of Stuart Gillespie.
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
going to start posting more academic stuff, starting with some papers I've read recently This analysis by @uribejuanita.bsky.social on the managerialist lineages of multistakeholder governance is fantastic, connecting the dots between deliberative democracy and neoliberalism
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Excluding through inclusion: managerial practices in the era of multistakeholder governance
Managerial practices underpin most global policy agendas. Existing research shows how these practices have reshaped the public sector, facilitated the marketization of problems, and altered organiz...
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 10/04/2025
In FOOD FIGHT Stuart Gillespie reveals how the system we once relied upon for global nutrition has warped into the very thing making us sick. Both unflinching exposé and revolutionary call to arms FOOD FIGHT maps a way towards a new system that gives us hope for a future of global health and justice
A hardback copy of Food Fight by Stuart Gillespie. The book is laying flat on a white table but instead on resting on the table it is floating above it. The book itself is white with black and green text. The cover shows a photo of the globe with a silver fork piercing its side.
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Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My book on "Smugglers and States" has won the Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award by @apsa.bsky.social and @ipsa.org. I'm surprised and honored and thrilled to be in the company of some really great books that won in recent years. www.ipsa.org/na/news/max-...
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Max Gallien Named the Recipient of the 2025 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award
Max Gallien has been named as the recipient of the 2025 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for his first book titled Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins,
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Lucy Westerman @lucywesterman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Yes ⏩ “connect, not compete. ‘My crisis is bigger than yours’ will never work in the long run, especially when it’s clear that crises interact. We need to see (and seize) the common ground” I want to underline this & more from this provoking read from @stuartgillespie.bsky.social
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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🔥new commentary in World Nutrition 'Use your Power' worldnutritionjournal.org/index.php/wn...
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 28/03/2025
Sadiya plans her day around waiting for water. If it’s late or doesn’t come, her family’s meals are affected. Reliable infrastructure is key to food security, yet it’s rarely part of the conversation. It should be. Watch her story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=axgv... #WaterSecurity #FoodJustice #N4G
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Sadiya's story | Food and infrastructure justice
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Action contre la Faim @actioncontrelafaim.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
[2/4] Alors qu’un enfant de moins de 5 ans meurt de faim toutes les 11 secondes nous constatons un recul massif de l’aide publique au développement dans de nombreux pays riches🚨 L'arrêt brusque des financements de l'aide humanitaire des États-Unis n'a fait qu'aggraver une situation déjà dramatique.
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Action contre la Faim @actioncontrelafaim.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
[1/4] Aujourd'hui et demain nous participons au Sommet International #N4GParis sur la nutrition 🌍 Cette édition prend une ampleur politique sans précédent puisqu'il s'agit d’un des premiers sommets sur la solidarité et le développement international depuis la crise des financements américains ⬇️
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Sommet sur la nutrition à Paris : "Ça devait être un sommet des chefs d'État, ça va être une réunion ministérielle", regrette Action contre la faim
Le sommet "Sommet Nutrition for Growth 2025" s'ouvre à Paris alors que le secteur de l'humanitaire s'inquiète de la baisse des financements pour l'aide au développement. Michael Siegel, directeur délé...
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I love these animations. See more here: foodinfrastructurejustice.ac
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Food Infrastructure Justice
The LOGIC project studied the social and material systems that drive food and infrastructure access across five African and Asian cities.
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 28/03/2025
For families like Naleli’s, unstable energy access makes nutrition a daily struggle. Ahead of the #N4GSummit, its important to talk about infrastructure and food security together. 📽️ Watch her story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjoE... #EnergyJustice #FoodSecurity #N4G
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Naleli's story | Food and infrastructure justice
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Florian Weigand @weigand.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Had the privilege to review @maxgallien.bsky.social's absolutely fantastic new book 'Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins' @columbiaup.bsky.social. Please contact me if you can't access the review - or, simply, just get his book: doi.org/10.1111/deve...
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Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins by Max Gallien, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, xiv + 346 pp.
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 27/03/2025
Amidst the #ODA cuts, IDS fellow Santiago Ripoll points to Spain’s success in improving global #nutrition despite a smaller aid budget and makes recommendations for the ongoing #N4G Summit 👇 www.nutritioninsight.com/news/how-spa...
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How Spain’s small aid budget makes a big impact as global nutrition funding shrinks
Spain&rsquo;s cost-effective, policy-driven nutrition aid model offers key lessons as global funding declines. <strong><em>Nutrition Insight&nbsp;</em></strong>speaks to an expert at the Institute of ...
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Recent outbreaks of avian influenza cast doubt on the mantra that large industrialised farms are always best from a biosecurity perspective. Could the next global pandemic originate from the so-called “developed world”? www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/avi... @ids.ac.uk
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Avian flu: Intensified animal production does not make us immune to it - Institute of Development Studies
Driving up intensified farming in lower income countries will not make them immune from bird flu, as the USA and UK shows.
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Colombo Urban Lab @colombourbanlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Some highlights from our latest policy brief 'Beyond Aswesuma: Investing in Transformative Social Protection' by Iromi Perera. To read the full policy brief ➡️ tinyurl.com/4u6h8564
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