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Chief of staff, Animal Think Tank, UK, remote
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Animal Think Tank is small, but ambitious. Our mission is to help build the political, strategic, and narrative powerof the UK animal freedom movement. To achieve that we need disciplined operations, timely delivery , and athriving, accountable team. This role is about making that happen. Y ou will work in close collaboration with me, Mark Westcombe, Animal Think Tank's director . Y our role will takeownership of our people, progress, and accountability . A primary objective of the role is to help me gain time tofocus on strategy , fundraising, and crucially , to think. If you want to be a driving force behind delivering a mission that matters, read on ... Your Core Purpose: enable organisational delivery so the director can focus on strategy and fundraising.● Culture: Shape a strong, high-performance organisational culture.● Progress and Accountability: Drive key organisational priorities forward; keep projects on track; andhold the team accountable for outcomes.● People Operations: Line manage our narrative research, engagement, and cultural sector work (withdirector retaining political and organisational strategy , and external comms).● Strategic partner: Act as a trusted advisor , partner and sounding board to the director .● Growth: Help scale the organisation - build the systems, processes, and people we need.● All Hands On Deck: We're all crew at Animal Think Tank, all roll up our sleeves, and do whatever it takes. You: You are a disciplined, driven, and people-savvy leader . You thrive on building strong teams and enablingthem to excel. You take pride in helping others succeed, including those you report to.You do not need prior experience in the animal freedom movement, but you must be deeply mission-aligned.This is not a job, salary or career - it's a vocation. The role might suit mid, late or end career professionals,including those who've an accomplished career and are now looking for a purposeful and meaningfuloccupation.
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Biodiversity pressure from fruit and vegetable consumption in UK, India and South Africa varies by product and growing location
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This study analyses the biodiversity pressure of fruit and vegetables in the UK, South Africa and India, comparing imported and domestically grown. In all three, imported fruits typically exert greater pressure than domestically grown fruits. Contrastingly, in India and South Africa, imported vegetables generally have a lower biodiversity pressure than domestically grown. 
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The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
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The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems presents new evidence-based insights on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries. New to this Commission are updates to the planetary health diet, measurement and assessment of the impact food systems have in driving transgressions of planetary boundaries, an exploration of multi-dimensional and underlying issues of food justice. 
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Increasing inequality in agri-food value chains: global trends from 1995-2020
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This analysis finds that global agricultural production for food and industrial inputs has increasingly shifted to the global South, global food-system income is increasingly captured by post-farm activities in the global North, and a substantial share of food-system income is captured in low-tax jurisdictions with low agricultural production.
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Transforming African food systems: perspectives from the Food Systems Network for Africa
Journal articles
This paper synthesises insights from 19 case studies in six African countries. Five key focus areas were identified: food system governance, indigenous crops and African foods, innovations for sustainable production among small-scale farmers, consumer preferences, and food loss and waste. Major priorities for transforming African food systems include inclusive engagement and the integration of indigenous knowledge to improve local food choices and resilience. 
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Who can change what? Self-perceived, attributed and structural influence among actors in the Swedish grain legume system
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Using Sweden as an illustrative case, this study explores actors’ perceptions of influence to change grain legume consumption and production, and examines system structures that support or hinder these actions. Findings suggest most actors attribute influence to others than themselves, most frequently the national government. 
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Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions
Reports
This report by NGOs Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy presents the latest global assessment of the meat and dairy industry’s climate impact, estimating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by 45 of the world’s major meat and dairy processing companies in 2022/23. It found that if they were a country, they would be the world’s ninth highest GHG-emitting nation. 
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Towards a Shared Understanding of Food Literacy Across Europe
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The report by EIT Food aims to build a shared European framework for food literacy that connects health, sustainability, culture, and society. While food literacy frameworks have been well established in countries like Australia, Canada, and the UK, this report is the first to contextualise it within the diverse realities of the European Union. 
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Feeding profit
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This report by UNICEF examines how unhealthy food environments are shaping children’s and adolescents’ diets and contributing to the surge in overweight and obesity. It presents data on the status, trends and inequities in overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, and projects when obesity will overtake underweight as the more prevalent form of malnutrition. 
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