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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Today's mid-August harvest. 🤗

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Basketflowers. They close up at night, only to unfold the next morning. Delicate, despite their prickly looks.

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My helianthus (perennial sunflower) and amaranth are luxuriating in this August's New England heat. And the pollinators too.

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I didn't expect this when I went to get my ladder! But life always finds a way...

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Here's my version. Stunning colour combo.

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Welcome back FEWS NET. The latest update on global food insecurity makes for hard reading, as usual: fews.net/global/speci.... Up to 45% shortfall in rain from long term trends in pastoral zones of Ethiopia and Sudan. Likely flooding in Kenya. But humanitarian aid cut like never before....

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our new paper shows how critical it is to use reliable data to achieve effective targeting and use of development resources: doi.org/10.1038/s414.... Sadly, the source of these data was terminated a few weeks ago. Draw your own conclusions...

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

And over at Wholefoods, nothing to see here...

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Lovely day snowshoeing in the forest. Nothing else of consequence happening today, right?

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Proud to note that our 2013 paper in the Lancet series on nutrition has reached 1,000 citations in Google Scholar. Not a lot, maybe, for earth science and climate papers, but quite a lot for a single nutrition article. Great that it still has legs! lnkd.in/eR8KXMxy

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Our new paper tracking process (or not) on food systems transformation globally using harmonized metrics. A valuable accountability mechanism: lnkd.in/ebRdbqim

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Finally, some New England weather that allows for snow-shoeing. Yay!

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Afternoon in Le Guilvinec, Brittany. Crisply cold but wonderful with it.

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We can change some short-term household outcomes (like dietary diversity) through behaviour change interventions; but chronic poverty and food insecurity hinder deeper impacts. New paper on research in Uganda. Free access (until 27 Jan 25): authors.elsevier.com/c/1kECs7sxZ~...

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Clear affect of India removing its export ban on the global market price for rice. Africa was most impacted by this artificial inflation. www.ifpri.org/blog/india-l...

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Patrick Webb @patrickwebb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Oyster mushroom in my garden. These mushrooms are carnivorous. To get needed nitrogen, they secrete a toxin that stuns passing nematode worms. Apparently, thr mushroom then sends out fibres to find the worm, enter its mouth and suck out the guts. And here I was going to fry it up.for tea....

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