🌍 We’ve entered a new era of food crises. Our food systems aren't built to withstand them.

Decades of deep dependence on volatile global markets and fragile supply chains have made our food system vulnerable to shocks.

We need new economics of #resilience

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✊ Food worker exploitation is not inevitable.

Our #FoodWork report sets out 5 priorities for change:

✊ Build worker power
⚖️ Secure decent work
🛂 Equal rights for migrant workers
🏢 Rein in corporate power
❤️ Value food work

👉 Read the report: ipes-food.org/report/food-...

1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like?

1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork

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4/4 But exploitation is not inevitable.

When food workers organize, they win better pay, safer workplaces & stronger rights.

Good food should never depend on poverty wages, unsafe work or invisible labour.

Read our new report #FoodWork: ipes-food.org/report/food-...

1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like?

1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork

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Our food systems cannot function without workers. So why are so many exploited?

Low pay. Unsafe work. Insecure jobs. Wage theft. Forced labour.

Our new #FoodWork report exposes the exploitation running through the global food chain, and how to end it.

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⚒️ Behind every meal is someone’s work. But what is that work really like?

1.4 billion people work in food systems – yet no other sector exploits more workers.

Our new #FoodWork report exposes why: exploitation is built into the system.

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🚨 NEW REPORT: The world’s largest workforce is also its most exploited.

1.4 billion people – 2 in 5 workers worldwide – work in food systems. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector.

Read & share #FoodWork:
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Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what is that work really like?

📆 Join us on 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across global food chains.

What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all?

👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Africa’s neglected crops are finally getting attention.

But changing the crops without changing the system is not enough.

“Africa’s crops do not need rescuing from African farmers. They need investment that puts farmers at the center" writes our Million Belay www.commondreams.org/opinion/afri...

Excited to participate in this webinar on Oct 14 launching @futureoffood.bsky.social 's important new report Toxic Dependency: How Agrochemicals Lock-In Food System Vulnerability

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Climate change isn’t just making food more expensive. It could be making healthy diets harder to afford.

Extreme weather is driving price spikes in fruit, vegetables and other nutritious foods – pushing families towards cheaper, less nutritious alternatives.
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🚨 NEW: Who really controls what we eat?

The #AgribusinessAtlas exposes how a handful of corporations are tightening their grip on our food – squeezing farmers, raising prices, influencing policy, and fuelling climate & health crises.

📖 Explore: ipes-food.org/agribusiness...

“It’s not a food system; it’s an agribusiness financial complex.”

“If we want to transform the food system, we need to recognise that finance is really at the heart of it.”

Powerful words from Jeff Conant on the financial interests behind Big Food & Big Ag.

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