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Food security is increasingly being shaped by geopolitics.
🌍Our report The New Geopolitics of Food explores how governments can reduce vulnerability to shocks, stabilise food prices, and strengthen local food systems.
Now available in:
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📘https://ipes-food.org/report/the-new-geopolitics-of-food/
We hear a lot about fertilizer crises. But far less about the solutions.
In an era of constant shocks, farming that doesn’t rely on unreliable fossil inputs – like #agroecology – is key to resilient #foodsystems.
Time to scale what works.
👉 https://www.scidev.net/global/news/agroecology-mideast-food-insecurity/
In a world that produces enough food for everyone, Jean Ziegler refused to accept hunger as normal.
His voice helped establish the right to food as a human right and inspired generations to challenge the systems that keep people hungry.
Rest in peace.
🎥 Wars, trade disruption, climate shocks, energy volatility. What does the “new geopolitics of food” mean for #FoodPrices and global #FoodSecurity?
Catch up with our webinar launching IPES-Food’s new report The New Geopolitics of Food
📺 Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYveuQ4BcUY&list=PL0pDKBoKM0cJ7MJQ8VW78Ft7pRn3B_CaR&index=1
🎥 Missed it? Catch up now.
Who is shaping #innovation in #agriculture – and in whose interests?
Watch the launch of HEAD IN THE CLOUD, unpacking digital agriculture, power, and farmer-led alternatives.
👉https://youtu.be/lN8n6sGouCI?si=8hf4jkTQy1oujxGo
#Agroecology #FoodSystems #HeadInTheCloud
“It’s good for the planet because you’re weaning food production off fossil fuels,” says @suechomba.
As geopolitical conflict sends fertiliser prices soaring once again, farmers from Senegal to India are turning to organic & natural alternatives.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/farmers-seek-fertilizer-alternatives-as-iran-war-drives-up-prices
RT: @_RajPatel The anti-Congolese xenophobia in Durban is horrific. It's particularly scandalous that one of the parties fanning the flames was invited to the SACP's conference. More here: https://progressive.international/movement/article/2026-05-21-crisis-in-durban/en/ https://richardpithouse.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-decision-for-the-left
RT: @via_campesina@mastox.eu La Vía Campesina Honduras condemns the massacre of peasants that has shaken the entire country and exposed the vulnerability and insecurity in which the peasant communities are forced to live.
https://viacampesina.org/en/2026/05/la-via-campesina-honduras-denounces-the-massacre-of-peasants-in-the-community-of-colon/
Food is increasingly being used as a weapon of war.
21,000+ incidents of “food-related violence” have been documented since 2018.
From Gaza to Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Mali, deliberate attacks on food systems are driving hunger.
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/24/hunger-weapon-of-war-food-violence-surges
RT: @DevEconNetwork 📚Lecture: "What is at stake in a fragmented world today: Rethinking peace, imperialism & the global disorder"
📅21 May
⏰4:30–6:30pm (Kuala Lumpur time)
📍Senate Hall, Level 5, Muhammad Abdur Rauf Building, @IIUM Gombak, KL (also available in Zoom)
✍️https://go.networkideas.org/4uH281e
We are now facing the 5th global food price spike in just 15 years.
At what point do we stop calling these 'shocks' – and recognise a broken #FoodSystem?
@_RajPatel argues the answer may lie in rebuilding public food infrastructure.
🔗 https://agrowingculture.substack.com/p/the-price-of-passage
Who owns the data generated on farms?
Increasingly, not farmers.
As AI, cloud computing & biodigital technologies take over farming, control over data is becoming a major source of corporate power.
Here's why data sovereignty matters for our food.
https://ipes-food.org/digital-agriculture-is-concentrating-corporate-power-over-food-systems/
RT: @_RajPatel "All gains, countless improvements, and not a single concession" Meatpackers' strike against JBS wins! https://www.foodmanufacturing.com/labor/news/22964580/workers-at-major-jbs-meatpacking-plant-win-wage-increases
This week, IPES-Food panel members gathered to chart the future of food systems.
In a time of crisis, transformation is urgent.
It’s already happening – in fields, movements, and communities worldwide.
We’re here to help it grow.
Europe’s dependence on synthetic fertilisers is also a dependence on fossil gas.
Between 2019–2024, €16.4bn was spent on fertiliser that generated no food, while synthetic nitrogen use caused an estimated €233.7bn in environmental damage.
"We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution."
Our @DeSchutterO & top economists call for a rewiring of economies.
✊ No workers. No food.
In Colorado, 3800 marginalized workers are taking on the world’s biggest meat company #JBS.
Fighting for safety, dignity & fair pay.
“This strike is a matter of life and death.”
When workers organise, power shifts. https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2026/03/31/why-jbs-meat-packing-workers-are-on-an-historic-strike/
RT: @_RajPatel Sergio Oceransky is out of jail, but not yet free. His press conference is now live here: https://www.facebook.com/CEPAD.GDL
RT: @_RajPatel David Bacon's black and white photography is always heartstopping. Use it to find out about what Coachella was before it was #Coachella, out now in the excellent US rural news source BarnRaiser https://barnraisingmedia.com/for-coachella-farmworkers-the-grape-strikes-of-the-20th-century-cast-a-long-shadow/
RT: @ksjomo Recently, at @ipsnews with Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan: Partial closure of Iran's Hormuz Straits is also disrupting crucial fertiliser and other supplies, risking catastrophe for billions worldwide. https://www.networkideas.org/2026/03/31/iran-war-threatens-world-food-crisis/
Climate shocks are no longer exceptional. They’re becoming a defining feature of our food systems.
As Europe endures another extreme heatwave and a strong El Niño is expected to develop, #foodsecurity is increasingly about #resilience to shocks.
@fao: https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/el-ni%C3%B1o-is-coming.-here-is-where-the-risks-to-agriculture-are-highest/en
RT: @IPESfood@mastox.eu 🌱 Land is the source of our food – and our life.
On the International Day of #PeasantStruggles, we honour those killed in Eldorado dos Carajás – and the fight that continues.
The “land squeeze” is pushing farmers out.
We must put land back in farmers’ hands.
Climate change is raising temperatures & food prices.
Climate shocks become food price shocks when they hit food systems built on fossil fuels, imported inputs, monocultures and fragile supply chains.
Building #resilience has never been more urgent.
RT: @_RajPatel In 2003, Florida produced 242 million boxes of oranges... 25 years later it's 12 million. Why? Climate change, private equity, disease, developers. A brilliant long-read https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html
🌱 Land is the source of our food – and our life.
On the International Day of #PeasantStruggles, we honour those killed in Eldorado dos Carajás – and the fight that continues.
The “land squeeze” is pushing farmers out.
We must put land back in farmers’ hands.
Fresh, nutritious food for the wealthy. Junk food for everyone else?
Our @grocery_nerd challenges the idea that healthy food should be a luxury.
His answer: “Redistribute the health” and expand food access.
https://grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-update-160-class-war-smoothies
“[Farmers] are feeling the conflict in their pockets.”
As wars drive up fertiliser prices, farmers dependent on imported synthetic inputs are paying the price.
But farmers building soil fertility locally are far less exposed to volatile global markets.
https://www.foodtank.com/news/2026/06/how-transitioning-away-from-chemical-fertilizers-pays-off-for-farmers/
Can African food systems rely less on chemical fertilisers?
Billions have been spent on subsidies - but with mixed results for small-scale farmers. While dependency & exposure to shocks grew.
Time to rethink, says @grain
📖 https://grain.org/e/7375
RT: @ksjomo My latest for @ipsnews
Trump 2.0 has been marked by the blatantly aggressive exercise of power to secure US interests as defined by him.His reduced use of ‘soft power’ has exposed his bullying, extortionary use of US power.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/04/trump-rips-off-velvet-glove-from-mailed-fist/
Who actually drives innovation in our #foodsystems?
Farmers have always been the innovators. But today “innovation” is often framed as delivered from the top down – raising questions about power and whose knowledge counts.
https://www.uvm.edu/instituteforagroecology/news/farmer-led-grassroots-innovation-makes-real-systems-change-possible
Why are food prices so volatile – even when there’s enough food to go around?
A new report by @brettonwoodspr shows how financial speculation is driving price swings, inequality, and hunger.
Food is being treated as a financial asset – not a human need.
Time to rein it in.
RT: @_RajPatel Sergio Oceransky, a land defender in Yucatan has been arrested, and there's reason to worry that local land-grabbing families wish him ill in prison. Solidarity campaign news coming soon... https://24horasyucatan.mx/2026/04/06/detienen-a-defensor-del-territorio-y-comunidades-en-yucatan-alzan-la-voz/
“Lobbying has borne fruit.”
That’s how the EU's most powerful agricultural lobby reportedly described its campaign to influence key EU Farm To Fork legislation.
Raising important questions who gets to shape Europe’s food policy, and in whose interests?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law
We cannot stabilise food prices without getting fossil fuels out of food systems.
Stark warning from @FT on the coming food crisis.
"We need to loosen the grip of hydrocarbons on our food system… More sustainable farming is both possible & necessary"
👉https://www.ft.com/content/36343e24-b06f-434d-a7e5-6046e7bcf3df
Why are some farms weathering the fertiliser crisis better than others?
Because they don’t rely on it.
Regenerative & agroecological farming shows how to build resilience free of fossil fuels.
“The Iran war has highlighted, yet again, the collateral damage of war and the food system’s vulnerability,” writes our @JomoSundaram
Why are we still relying on a #foodsystem that amplifies them?
🔗 https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/03/iran-war-threatens-world-food-crisis/
War. Trade disruption. Climate extremes. Oil shocks.
Our food systems are cracking under pressure.
Join the launch webinar for our new report THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF FOOD: how countries can stabilise food prices & build resilient self-reliance.
📅13 May
https://ipes-food.org/the-new-geopolitics-of-food-report-launch-webinar/
🛒 Why are food prices still rising – and set to rise again?
⛽ Because our food systems run on fossil fuels. When energy prices spike, so do grocery bills.
We have to break food’s dependence on fossil fuels. Here's how.
👉 https://ipes-food.org/out-of-pocket-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-groceries/
RT: @_RajPatel Canadians! If you're curious about public groceries, you need to join this A-list deep dive, later this week. https://fcn-rcn.ca/uncategorized/public-grocery-stores-webinar/
RT: @brettonwoodspr 📢 New BWP report: Hard-wiring hunger
Today’s food crises are not just about scarcity — they’re about how markets are structured and priced. Financial speculation is increasingly shaping global food systems.
https://tinyurl.com/FoodSecurityPaper
Our findings ⤵️
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Food prices face a triple whammy.
Trade disputes. Geopolitical conflict. Now climate extremes and a potential super El Niño.
"Price shocks could reach 10-50% across core commodities" or more…
Building resilient #foodsystems has never been more urgent.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/12/super-el-nino-severe-shock-global-food-prices-lasting-into-2028-economists-warn
The dependence of our food system on #fossilfuels creates a triple threat:
📈Food prices tied to oil price spikes.
🌡️Climate breakdown causes droughts & floods that destroy harvests.
🤑A handful of corporations control the system & profit from crisis.
https://350.org/out-of-pocket-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-groceries/
Fertilizer shocks are back. Africa is once again exposed.
As Strait of Hormuz tensions disrupt #fertilizer flows, African farmers are caught in a bind.
But, @suechomba writes, solutions exist – biofertilizers, cover crops, & healthier soils.
👉 https://ipes-food.org/strait-of-hormuz-crisis-should-catalyze-african-biofertilizer-production/
When food & fertiliser prices rise, who benefits?
New @DeSmog story shows execs at major fertiliser firms sold $66M in shares since war on Iran.
“It reveals… how dependent our food system is on fossil fuels,” says Jennifer Clapp.
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/fertiliser-grain-bosses-bank-66-million-selling-shares-iran-war/
“When shocks and crises become a regular feature of food systems, it can be far cheaper to invest in resilience over the longer term.”
Jennifer Clapp explains why resilient self-reliance is about reducing vulnerability to food price shocks.
@ArtfSurvival Here's the article
Out of Pocket: the real cost of fossil fuels on our groceries
How we are all paying to keep our food systems hooked on fossil fuels
https://350.org/out-of-pocket-the-real-cost-of-fossil-fuels-on-our-groceries/
What if phasing out fossil fuels in energy just shifts them into our food?
As leaders meet in #SantaMarta remember:
#FoodSystems use ~15% of fossil fuels & ~40% of petrochemicals.
If we ignore food, we shift the problem. Include food in #JustTransition!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-fuel-food-why-agrifood-systems-belong-center-fossil-addison-hw3bf
Food prices are rising: but why? And what can actually be done about it?
Join us for the launch of our new report on the new geopolitics of food, exploring how global tensions are reshaping food systems – & how countries can respond.
📅May 13
🔗Register: https://ipes-food.org/the-new-geopolitics-of-food-report-launch-webinar/
🙌 Congratulations to our friend & colleague Sofía Monsalve Suárez on her appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on the #RightToFood.
A tireless advocate for food as a human right, not a commodity.
At this critical moment, her leadership matters more than ever.
“You could be killed.”
The reality behind some of the world’s cheapest meat.
Now 4k Colorado workers at #JBS are on strike in a historic fight for dignity & safety.
“This strike is a matter of life & death.”
📖 https://grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-update-146-why-jbs-meat-packing by @grocery_nerd
