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Fostering a global community of researchers & practitioners focused on #agriculture, #foodsystems, #nutrition & #health 🌱 Housed w/in LSHTM
ANH Academy joins a #D4N2025 session on how homes, schools & markets shape diets across South Asia 🌱🌏

🗓 Dec 3 | 13:30–15:00 NPT
📍Kathmandu & Online
▶️ Join: bit.ly/Zoom_Bagmati

Explore the agenda & register free bit.ly/D4N2025_register!

@ifpri.org @cgiar.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Call for ANH2026 Learning Labs! 🎉

ANH Academy invites proposals for 1–2 hr interactive Labs for ANH Academy Week, online 22–24 June 2026.

👉🏼Open to all disciplines & career stages on themes from climate & conflict to markets & governance.

🔗 Details & apply by 16 Jan 2026: bit.ly/3Kk4dyM #ANH2026
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🚨 The climate crisis is a health crisis! COP30 is an integral opportunity to improve our health & that of our planet. 🌏

This EGM on climate change, food systems, nutrition, & health offers a review of existing evidence and critical gaps to help transform evidence into action 🔗 bit.ly/3K7lQli
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🔔 Applications now open for Round 2 of @anhacademy.bsky.social SciPol Fellowships!

1-year placements in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, translating research into policy for equitable, sustainable food systems for healthy diets.🌍

Learn more & apply→ bit.ly/4ox3skD

#Fellowships #SciencePolicy
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🌏 Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia (D4N2025) is back!

Join researchers, policymakers & practitioners in Kathmandu 🇳🇵 & online, Dec 2–4 to explore pathways for scaling nutrition impact across systems from food & health to climate resilience. 🌱

🎟 Register → bit.ly/D4N2025_register
@ifpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a Research Roundtable discussing the prices of healthy diets and foods across 10 countries in Africa. 🫑🌍🍎

Join us tomorrow on 5 Nov | 12:00–13:00 UTC | Zoom: tufts.zoom.us/j/9150600124... to hear insights from 🎤Joyce Grevulo Minofu.

#FoodAccess
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Join the ANH Academy for free to stay updated on the latest research, resources & opportunities from the ANH Community of 13,000 members in 160+ countries. 🌍 www.anh-academy.org/user/register

📰 Check out the October newsletter here bit.ly/47Wfez9
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New ANH Academy Research Community on Food Supply, Loss & Waste launch 🎉 Hear authors Jocelyn Boiteau & Prabhu Pingali on their book 'Wasted Potential'📘 exploring SDG 12 & reducing food loss & waste across the value chain🌍

📅 30 Oct, 12–13 UTC on Zoom🔗 bit.ly/47tclVl

#FoodLoss #SDG12 #FoodSystems
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a Research Roundtable on barriers to healthy diets in Tanzania🇹🇿.
🫑🥕Hear Nishmeet Singh on food choices & issues of access from the perspective of women on 15 October | 12:00–13:00 UTC | Zoom: bit.ly/4nIxUYK

#FoodAccess
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🌋 New research: Are water & food insecurity linked with mental distress among men & women after a natural disaster? A paper by IMMANA Fellow @indirabose.bsky.social explores this using the 2022 volcanic eruption data in Tonga 🇹🇴.

📄Read here bit.ly/3ITOwha
October 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Join the ANH Academy for free to stay updated on the latest research, resources & opportunities from the ANH Community of 13,000 members in 160+ countries. 🌍 www.anh-academy.org/user/register

📰 Check out the September newsletter here mailchi.mp/lshtm/anhaca...
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎉 Delighted to introduce the ANH Academy Science-Policy Fellows for 2025-26!

🌍 They are driving evidence-based research and policy solutions to strengthen food systems and improve healthy diets across Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Pakistan 🇵🇰, Nigeria 🇳🇬, and Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

🌱 www.anh-academy.org/science-poli...
September 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚰 Water insecurity ripples through food, health & livelihoods. At #FoodWise2025, @indirabose.bsky.social stressed tackling food & water insecurities together. Tools like WISE Scales 🌍now used in 55+ countries, make the invisible visible: wisescales.org 💧 #SDG6

@nuwater.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If you are interested in tools for measuring food environments and diets, then join us for this interactive webinar!

Date: 30 September 2025
Time: 14:00 BST/9:00 EST/18:30 IST

More info here: www.anh-academy.org/community/ev...

Register here: lshtm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a roundtable on how income and access to healthy diets relate to diet quality in Malawi. 🌽🍠 Hear @racheldgilbert.bsky.social on Malawi & 🪙 food prices for nutrition on September 17 | 13:00-14:00 UTC | Zoom: bit.ly/3JPOU01 #FoodAccess
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a roundtable on Optimising Food Supplementation in India 🇮🇳🫛🍚Hear Tinku Thomas on Balancing Energy Needs & Budget Constraints on September 10 | 12:00–13:00 EST | Zoom: bit.ly/4m023Bi
#FoodAccess
September 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Plastics are in our oceans, air, food & us – even before birth, states Megan Deeney at INC 5.2 in Geneva. Production & waste will triple by 2060. Most of 16K+ chemicals are unregulated. #PlasticsTreaty must deliver a strong treaty to protect people & planet! 🌍 #INC5
@scientistscoa.bsky.social ‬‪
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Research Community on Food Access is hosting a roundtable on how balanced diets, food prices & gender dynamics shape dietary diversity in households. 👥🥗📈

Hear Martin Chegere on 🌆 rural & urban Tanzania & agricultural links 🇹🇿 on Aug 13 | 09:00–10:00 EST | Zoom: bit.ly/4fCotXC

#FoodAccess
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Megan Deeney, co-author of the report & @lshtm.bsky.social researcher, says
August 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Plastic pollution will almost triple from 2019-20 at current rates.

What does this mean for health?

🔄 In @thelancet.com a new Health Policy outlines dangers at every stage of the plastic lifecycle —and steps for change.

➡️http://bit.ly/4mvtjZ8
August 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🌍 That’s a wrap on the 10th Annual #ANH2025!

Huge thanks to all who joined us in Dar es Salaam + online. Your energy brought vital conversations on food, health & equity to life.

Stay tuned for highlights & resources!

Asanteni Sana! 💡✨

#ANH2025 #Conference #FoodSystems #Nutrition #Agriculture
June 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
💡Day 3 of #ANH2025 sparked big questions:

🌍 Can diets be healthy and sustainable?
⚖️ How do equity & empowerment shape food systems?
🔬 What tools align nutrition, climate & policy?

Explore more:
🔗 anh-academy.org

#ANH2025 #Agriculture #FoodSystems #Nutrition #Health #Equity #Research
June 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Posters & Panels, Day 2 of #ANH2025 was rich with insights! Researchers explored food systems risks, from mining to pesticides, and ways to boost demand for healthy diets through affordability & behaviour change. 🌱
Plus, a poetic snapshot of global research with posters! More to come next day..
June 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Big ideas & bold voices on Day 2 of #ANH2025 🇹🇿! A powerful keynote from @descendantsproject.bsky.social Banner sisters spotlighted environmental justice, while experts tackled demand for healthy diets in tough food environments.
Equity, action & transformation were front and centre. Stay tuned! 🌍💬
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Day 1 of #ANH2025 🇹🇿 brought 12 hands-on Learning Labs!
From calculating diet costs & mapping food systems to storytelling for impact & tackling gender gaps, the labs bridged research + real-world change.
That’s a wrap on LL, but next up: plenaries,orals,posters & more! 🌱📊🗺️🎙️

#FoodSystems #Health
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM