Phillip Baker
@philbakernz.bsky.social
ARC Future Fellow & Horizon Fellow @ School of Public Health @sydneyuni | #foodsystems #governance #ultra-processedfoods #foodpolicy #nutrition #foodpolitics #breastfeeding #globalhealth 🍎 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=K4HNPhUAAAAJ&hl=en
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Phillip Baker
@philbakernz.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Hot off the press!🔥Our new @naturefood.bsky.social paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods?
We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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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
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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...
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...
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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...
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...
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
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
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October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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
This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
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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...
🌍 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...
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
🌍 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...
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...
🌍 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...
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
🌍 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...
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“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/...
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/...
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“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/...
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/...
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Looking forward to speaking at this online event tomorrow on corporate power in agrifood systems - info below⤵️
I'm honoured by the invitation from the FAO Right to Food team to present in this upcoming webinar on Unpacking Corporate Power in Agrifood Systems - with insights from my new book Titans of Industrial Agriculture. Sept 24 - 14:00-15:30CET
Link to register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Link to register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Food Policy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Calling all food governance scholars! Please check out this call for papers for a special issue on rebuilding global food governance. More info below 👇
Reposted by Phillip Baker
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Food Policy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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...
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.
The percentage of children identified as acutely malnourished in screenings across Gaza increased to 13.5 per cent in August, from 8.3 per cent in July.
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
Devastating rate of child malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in August surpasses July record
After July IPC famine finding in Gaza City, screenings show 1 in 5 children acutely malnourished as the military offensive there escalates
www.unicef.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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.
🔥 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...
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...
Feeding Profit
How food environments are failing children
www.unicef.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🔥 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...
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...
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Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts
theconversation.com/vape-brands-...
theconversation.com/vape-brands-...
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.
theconversation.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts
theconversation.com/vape-brands-...
theconversation.com/vape-brands-...
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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.
foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
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.co
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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.
foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
Excellent proposal 🙌
🔥BREAKING!
David Kessler, fomer FDA commissioner,"...has filed a citizen petition w/ the FDA to ban processed refined carbohydrates from the U.S. food supply...
The petition targets “refined carbohydrates used in industrial processing”..."
foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
David Kessler, fomer FDA commissioner,"...has filed a citizen petition w/ the FDA to ban processed refined carbohydrates from the U.S. food supply...
The petition targets “refined carbohydrates used in industrial processing”..."
foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
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.co
August 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Excellent proposal 🙌
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🧵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...
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🧵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...
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🧵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/...
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🧵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!
🧵1/3 New paper! Profits Before Health? New Zealand Government Rejection of Stricter Infant Formula Marketing Standards and the Lobbying Behind It. Read it here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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...
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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...
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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
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@nature.com @philbakernz.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@nature.com @philbakernz.bsky.social
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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.
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.
NEW PUBLICATION: Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and maternity protection: correlations with commercial milk formula consumption in East Asia and the Pacific. www.frontiersin.org/journals/ped...
Frontiers | Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and maternity protection: correlations with commercial milk formula consumption in East Asia and the Pacifi...
ObjectiveThe rise of commercial milk formulas (CMF) consumption by infants and young children raises concerns about their health, development, and survival. ...
www.frontiersin.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Phillip Baker
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 !
New video 🎬
Modern food systems encourage overconsumption and overproduction.
As citizens, we need to reassess our relationship with food.
Lidia Cabral offers her take on transforming food systems #sustainablefarming @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social
Modern food systems encourage overconsumption and overproduction.
As citizens, we need to reassess our relationship with food.
Lidia Cabral offers her take on transforming food systems #sustainablefarming @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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 !
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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
That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social from @landworkersuk.bsky.social and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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
That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social from @landworkersuk.bsky.social and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social
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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!
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
That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social from @landworkersuk.bsky.social and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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!