Andrea Cattaneo

“#Power is often absent from conversations about food systems.”— Olivier De Schutter, @ipes-food.org

These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation.

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Where you live could save—or cost—your life Interview with Dr Peter Macharia, a spatial epidemiologist from Kenya

Health and place – my journey

www.itg.be/en/health-st...

#GeospatialHealth #GISchat #geosky

Absolutely and totally sick

Thanks!
It is a great tool for PhD students because it helps leverage a novel geospatial dataset. We hope folks will find it helpful.
A week from the launch we have a lot of interest from international financial institutions.

YouTube video by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The City-Region Explorer integrated with the Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform. Video 5.

9/ 🎥 Tutorial video: How to get into the City-Region Explorer panel and leverage FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform functionalities
youtu.be/g7l9T85yG_0

YouTube video by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Aggregated Analytics in the City-Region Explorer. Video 4

8/ 🎥 Tutorial video: Aggregated Analytics in the City-Region Explorer
youtu.be/7ZBBTlj7J00

YouTube video by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations The City-Region Explorer Explained with the City of Toulouse (France). Video 3

7/ 🎥 Tutorial video: The City-Region Explorer Explained with the City of Toulouse (France)
youtu.be/JGDavYI5j1Q

YouTube video by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Navigating the City-Region Explorer. Video 2

6/ 🎥 Tutorial video: Navigating the City-Region Explorer
youtu.be/u7b5y6lrrcc

YouTube video by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Welcome to the City-Region Explorer! Video 1 Intro

5/ 🎥 Watch the tutorial video:
Welcome to the City-Region Explorer!
youtu.be/nbVvUNLP6s4

4/ The City-Region Explorer is great for researchers and practitioners.
Some tutorials: 4️⃣videos on functionalities of the Explorer panel, and 1️⃣video on its embedding in the FAO's geospatial platform. Check them out below.

@patrickwebb.bsky.social ‪@waiterich.bsky.social‬ @isavagneron.bsky.social‬

Worldwide delineation of multi-tier city–regions - Nature Cities This study uncovers the surprising interconnectedness of urban centers globally, finding that 3.2 billion individuals can access multiple urban tiers ranging from towns to large cities within an hour’...

3/The City-Region Explorer can replicate all figures & tables published in our @NatCities paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Users can go beyond replication and examine countries not highlighted in our paper.

@DavidUbilava.bsky.social @willmasters.bsky.social‬ @robertfinger.bsky.social‬

2/ The City-Region Explorer 👇https://data.apps.fao.org/cityregions

Examine 30,000 urban centers classified into four tiers—towns, small, intermediate, and large cities—as well as their interconnections and surrounding areas. No geospatial expertise needed.
Example: Toulouse, France.👇

1/ 🚀Big Update❗❗
Last year we published @NatCities, a systematic analysis of how countries are organized around multiple urban centres. That geospatial dataset is very complex. So we just launched the City-Region Explorer🔎... an easy to use platform for analysis. 🧵
#EconSky #Geography #GISChat

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...

Want a cheap & sustainable healthy diet? New preprint confirms that less expensive options generally emit less GHGs. Main exception is animal source foods. The least emitting healthy diets cost ~$7/day and emit 0.7 kg CO2e, while actual choices cost ~$10 and emit 2.4 kg.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24457

Text from an article: Given the current state of evidence production in the social sciences, I believe that many - perhaps most - attempts to use social scientific evidence to inform policy will not lead to better outcomes. This is not because of politics or the challenges of scaling small programs. The problem is more immediate. Much of social science research is of poor quality, and sorting the trustworthy work from bad work is difficult, costly, and time-consuming.

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

SAVE THE DATE❕❕ June 3rd📅
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This is a great job, working on major agrifood issues Topic changes yearly and you interact with world experts on a given theme. Our team also has a good publication record in peer-reviewed journals.

Deadline May 8th.
💢 Join FAO's State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Team 💢

Exciting opportunity! 👀
Ideal candidates combine strong analytical skills with expertise in agrifood systems and excellent communication abilities.

jobs.fao.org/careersectio...

Hi Will. Great stuff. Fio and I were study mates back in Pavia when we were doing electrical engineering together. Have not seen him in a while. Need to find an excuse to visit Tufts. :-)

@jennxer.bsky.social opens the True Cost Accounting Global Summit, hosted by @fao.org!

As Jenn said in her opening remarks:
"This is our moment to align, commit, and act. The future of food systems depends on it."

#TCAGlobalSummit2025 #scalingtca

Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human need, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing it. Conventional …

New paper uses lowest-cost healthy diets in each country plus alternative definitions of other basic needs to measure the extent and depth of global poverty.

Great work from @jonasstl.bsky.social & coauthors @unigoettingen.bsky.social, much needed for #TeachEcon #EconSky & #FoodSky

USDA Cancels Local Food Funding The Iowa Farmers Union is deeply alarmed disappointed by the USDA’s sudden termination of state contracts for the 2025 Local Food funding

A real pity.
Farmers are not happy, and children will lose out on a healthier diet.
www.morningagclips.com/usda-cancels...

New SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity adopted by UN Statistical Commission FAO assumes joint custodianship of indicator seen as key to ending malnutrition

The UN Statistical Commission #UN56SC has just formally adopted the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) score as a global diet quality indicator.

Measurement is a first step for action, using #FoodPricesForNutrition and other data to lower costs, improve access, and provide healthy diets for all.

Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it Massive political efforts are needed to tackle the root causes of hunger – conflict, poverty, inequality. Technology alone is not sufficient.

Happy to share this piece I wrote (with input from @ipes-food.org colleagues) as a counter to the recent call for more technological 'moonshots' to end hunger.

No amount of technology can ensure people are well fed - we need political will to tackle inequities

theconversation.com/only-politic...

My thanks to Preet for leading this effort.
Great collaboration and happy to see this out!

As more people join Bluesky, I am updating my starter pack on food systems with a focus on research and policy...

go.bsky.app/LKK6nBq

#Repurposing and #budget_optimization belong to an important agenda and governments need technical support to bring it down to implementation, to which @fao.org ao has paid attention. Thank you @iisd.bsky.social for helping raise awareness on this important issue.

Image of Earth on right with two red checkmark arrows pointing up. Text to the left reads: "The Countdown’s 2024 report shows global food systems have made some progress worth celebrating: Twenty of the 42 metrics analyzed show improvement since 2000, with major wins in safe water access, vegetable availability, and information transparency."

New Countdown Initiative paper which:
- Presents the first indicator monitoring update across 5 themes (more below)
- Provides an expert elicitation of interactions across indicators.
- Reviews literature & country case studies

Paper: tinyurl.com/CountdownMS
Website: tinyurl.com/countdownweb...