Phillip Baker

The title slide of Philip Baker's presentation featuring groups of mothers breastfeeding side by side, with Philip video image next to it as he is presenting remotely

Next up we are hearing from @philbakernz.bsky.social on The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress #BFConf

Please join us! For the launch of the Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health 🌏

Tickets are SOLD OUT for the London launch event. But some tickets are still available to join us online via Zoom.

🔗 Click here to register: uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

High-angle photography of grocery display in a supermarket. Copyright: Peter Bond on Unsplash.

Ultra-processed foods are reshaping global diets, health, & the planet.

Join us for the global launch of a new Series on UPFs & Human Health on 19 Nov. 🌍

Experts will unpack the science, policy, & politics of #UPFs.

Register to attend 👉 tinyurl.com/3h2t5mr4

How's this for a World Food Day partnership!?

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Excellent paper Rob 🙌👏

Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...

new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels

This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world

Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods

How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it?

🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)

Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...

Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods

How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it?

🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)

Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...

“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.”

Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.

Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Looking forward to speaking at this online event tomorrow on corporate power in agrifood systems - info below⤵️

Calling all food governance scholars! Please check out this call for papers for a special issue on rebuilding global food governance. More info below 👇

Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Absolutely heart breaking 💔 I can only imagine the frustration and pain parents and health workers are experiencing watching their young children starve. Let’s be clear: the weaponisation of food by the Israeli state is a war crime under international law. It’s mass murder and an act of genocide.

Feeding Profit How food environments are failing children

🔥 Powerful new report just out from UNICEF - Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children.

Exposes rising problem of ultra-processed foods in child food environments, the industry behind it, and what to do about it.

Please absolutely read and share 👇

www.unicef.org/reports/feed...

Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts Vape manufacturers mirror traditional tobacco marketing, including stylish branding, flavours and sponsorships, to reach young people through social media.

Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts
theconversation.com/vape-brands-...

Former FDA commissioner seeks ban on popular ingredients in ultra-processed foods David Kessler, who served as FDA commissioner during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, once took on Big Tobacco. Now he’s taking on Big Food.

FoodFix bonus edition: David Kessler, who served as FDA commissioner during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, once took on Big Tobacco. Now he’s taking on Big Food.

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Excellent proposal 🙌

🧵3/3 This is timely given the current work in Australia to restrict the marketing of infant formula and what the formula industry has to say about it. You can read what they are saying about the matter (publicly) here ➡️ www.accc.gov.au/public-regis... and ➡️ www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

🧵2/3 The NZ govt bowed to lobbying, departing from the revised standard to limit misleading labels on formula tins. Evidence of many meetings between formula execs and NZ ministers. Strong regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hot off the press! 🔥 our new case study on political lobbying by the baby food industry and how it influenced New Zealand governments decision to opt out of regulations intended to protect infant health. Please see below for the full article 👇 with congrats to Naomi Hull for her leadership on this!

Timely editorial by @TheLancetEndo highlights need for policies on ultra-processed foods. @carlos-monteiro.bsky.social & me agree, adding that policies targeting ultra-processed diets as a whole are realistic & urgent—especially in regions not yet dominated by them www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Great paper by Dori Patay and colleagues...on getting beyond the clichés of transformation to show what it will really take!

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

@nature.com @philbakernz.bsky.social

Hot off the press, @mathisenroger.bsky.social @philbakernz.bsky.social
Recommendations include
Adopt legal measures to give full effect to the Code as opposed to relying on voluntary measures. Prioritise strengthening comprehensive maternity protection, cultivate intersectoral policy environments.

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 !

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

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!

Food Equity Centre - Institute of Development Studies The Food Equity Centre brings together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists to collaborate in developing solutions to inequities in food systems. It addresses the urgent need for re...

More about the Food Equity Centre here: www.ids.ac.uk/programme-an...

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

YouTube video by Institute of Development Studies Transforming food systems: tackling inequality and redistributing resources

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

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 !