Jess Fanzo takes a close look at what’s wrong with global food systems and how it might be possible to change them.

Three billion people couldn’t afford a healthy diet even if they wanted to.

More thoughts on spurtles, and food news from here and there.

Four recent studies add weight to advice to reduce the amount of ultra-processed food you eat — even if you don’t quite agree what makes a food ultra-processed.

Soy milk marketing sillies, USA deceived and dethroned, protective taint, anything but rice, maize trade pictured.

On the links between land reform and prosperity, the origins of a sandwich, the Amish and Whole Foods and more.

When people get their SNAP benefits is associated with when grocery store crimes are committed. And it’s almost impossible to follow government dietary guidelines on the government’s food assistance.

Chunks on organic standards, fermenting Jews, Indian agriculture and globalisation.

In the wake not only of the podcast here but a lot of other discussion around the interwebz, here are a couple of bits of research that help to untangle the complex relationships between economics and diet.

You can eat a perfectly nutritious diet for a lot less money than the US government says you need. But would you want to?