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Adèle Sulcas
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Health and food systems writer, global-health partnerships and content specialist, mother, South African, lover of food and wine, francophile.
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South Africa is catching up quickly to the global leaders in UPF consumption (UK and US), and its massive harms. Could The Lancet series on UPFs and human health spark ultra-processed food's "tobacco' moment? www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#DailyMaverick #foodsystems #foodjustice @TheLancet
New Lancet series warns ultra-processed foods are reshaping diets and fuelling global burden of disease | Daily Maverick
<p>The launch of The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed food is the largest study yet of the links between ultra-processed food and human health — and a call-to-arms. The series appeals to governm...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Unicef calls it like it is in the 2025 Child Nutrition Report, "Feeding Profit": Corporate capture of our food systems (and South Africa's public schools) is a major driver of child malnutrition. #FoodJusticeSA #ZeroHunger #foodsystems #Unicef #HandInHand
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How Big Food’s corporate ambition is driving child overweight globally
Malnutrition has reached a critical tipping point globally, says Unicef’s latest report on child nutrition, with ultra-processed foods driving rapidly rising rates of overweight and obesity among scho...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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What we eat (and waste) is one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis. Changing it could be one of the best ways to slow it down. The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission explains.

#EATLancet #PlanetaryHealthDiet #FoodSystems #FoodJusticeSA #FutureofFood
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What’s for dinner? Better health, and a shared responsibility for climate change
The less meat, more plants Planetary Health Diet could save 15 million lives a year, and dramatically slow down the global climate crisis, a new report says.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#EATLancet #PlanetaryHealthDiet #FoodSystems #FoodJusticeSA
What’s for dinner? Better health, and a shared responsibility for climate change
The less meat, more plants Planetary Health Diet could save 15 million lives a year, and dramatically slow down the global climate crisis, a new report says.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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South Africa committed in 2010 to phase out 116 "highly hazardous pesticides" but by 2025 has banned only one, Terbufos. The health of farmworkers, the public, and the environment is at stake. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#DOA #FoodJustice #SustainableFood #DailyMaverick
South Africa’s pesticides regulations decades behind, say experts
The verdict of the South African People’s Tribunal on Agrotoxins, triggered by the deaths of seven children in October last year, is due this month. The revelatory process has also shone the spotlight...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Great to see our South Africa #FoodSystems case study featured in this in-depth article by @adelesulcas.bsky.social & @dailymaverick.co.za.

A sobering look at methane, meat, and missed opportunities in #NDCs.

Read the article 👇
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#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
April 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The third U.N. Food Systems Summit was held for the first time in Africa, where delegates grappled with the pressure on food systems from climate shocks, conflict, inequality, and economic disruption #unfss2025 #FAO #IFAD #FoodSystems
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Global table turns: Africa at the centre of food systems change
The third United Nations Food Systems Summit was dominated by ministerial-level discussions as it aimed to ‘unlock finance and investments to accelerate food systems transformation’.
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August 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Norway vs UK (and SA) on policies to ban marketing of unhealthy food to children
The World Health Organization will begin, in July 2025, to develop guidelines on the consumption of ultra-processed foods, because a growing body of evidence suggests that a diet rich in highly proces...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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South African NGO Abalobi is a finalist for the Global Food Systems Challenge Grand Prize - zero-waste, sustainable seafood, direct from fisher communities
#fishwithastory #abalobi #rethinkingsustainability #knowyourfisher www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
SA fisher-led nonprofit Abalobi hopes to reel in huge global prize
The company’s approach to sustainable fishing and helping small-scale fishers thrive has netted it global recognition as a finalist in the 2025 Global Food System Challenge.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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SA fisher-led nonprofit Abalobi hopes to reel in huge global prize
The company’s approach to sustainable fishing and helping small-scale fishers thrive has netted it global recognition as a finalist in the 2025 Global Food System Challenge.
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May 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Food systems globally are responsible for more than 10 times the greenhouse-gas emissions compared to aviation - yet South Africa (among others) does not seem to be taking this massive climate threat seriously.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

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April 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#InvestInNutrition #StandingTogether4Nutrition #FoodSystems
US funding cuts for health, food programmes having tragic consequences
The US leads 44% cuts in global nutrition funding, threatening global food and nutrition aid on which millions depend for survival.
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April 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#Nutrition4Growth #ST4N #GAIN #FoodJustice
US funding cuts for health, food programmes having tragic consequences
The US leads 44% cuts in global nutrition funding, threatening global food and nutrition aid on which millions depend for survival.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
March 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Brazil’s bold food policies highlight South Africa’s missed opportunities in school nutrition delivery and reform dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... #foodjustice #CMonteiro_USP #WHO #Nutrition #InternationalSchoolMealsDay
Brazil’s bold food policies highlight South Africa’s missed opportunities in school nutrition reform.
While Brazil announces stringent restrictions on the inclusion of ultra-processed foods in school meals, South Africa’s education department, responsible for the National School Nutrition Programme (N...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A post from my occasional Substack, which is called Food Stories: open.substack.com/pub/adelesul...
South Africa is failing its children
Why can the world's most unequal country not figure out how to feed and protect its youngest citizens?
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March 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Big Food is finally on the chopping block - but will the US Justice system be brave enough to get the knives out?
hashtag#foodjustice hashtag#ultraprocessedfood hashtag#whatsinyourfood
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...
Unprecedented lawsuit against ultra-processed food companies — Big Food goes on trial
The evidence on the harmful effects of UPFs on human health has grown dramatically in recent years, and continues to grow, with emerging evidence going beyond the negative impacts of foods high in fat...
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December 14, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Despite almost one third of all greenhouse gas emissions coming from our food systems, food is not yet at the head of the main table for all climate and biodiversity COPs. But... at least it's at the table.
#cop29 #foodjustice #scalingupnutrition #foodtank
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...
Food systems hold slender but firm place on COP29 agenda
Despite a sense within the global food systems community that food’s presence at COP29 was in some ways substantial but lacked the pioneering spirit of food systems at COP28, some important initiative...
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December 3, 2024 at 12:11 PM