Awards

• Short-listed for Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards - Food Book of the Year 2026 (UK)

Overview

'Essential' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'Punchy' JULIAN BAGGINI 'Gripping' TIM SPECTOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS Food is life but our food system is killing us. Our global food system lies in the tight grip of a handful of powerful players who are prioritising profit at any cost - despite rising obesity, ill-health and a worsening climate crisis - aided by governments who are letting them get away with it. Stuart Gillespie, a veteran of four decades at the frontline of global food policy, reveals how we can transform it into a system that can nourish all of us, as well as the planet we live on. Both unflinching exposé and revolutionary call to arms, Food Fight maps a way towards a new system and reveals the solutions within our grasp.

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9781837261147

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Reviews

This isn't just a good read, it's an essential reference. Scholarly, literate and deeply moving - Food Fight is the essential food book of this year and years to come -- CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN Food Fight is the gripping book we have been waiting for, from a veteran of the food wars -- TIM SPECTOR A punchy polemic backed up with hard, often astonishing, facts. Anyone who reads his book will want to add their voice to the calls for change -- JULIAN BAGGINI * * Literary Review * * Up there with Marion Nestle's Food Politics, Food Fight exposes the dark arts of the food industry and the frustrating lack of political will. Like hers, Gillespie's anger burns off the page -- PEN VOGLER Eye-opening . . . Food Fight tackles a crucial issue at an important moment, offering rich detail on how our food is produced, traded and consumed and why the system must change * * Nature * * From his years of experience working in international nutrition, Gillespie has on-the-ground knowledge of why and how global food systems lead to widespread hunger, obesity and environmental damage, and what needs to be done to make those systems healthier for all. He makes it clear that this food fight is crucial to take on -- MARION NESTLE The need for a radical overhaul of our food system has never been more urgent. Food Fight powerfully articulates the intricate web of historical, economic and political factors that have led us to this point of crisis. It is a clarion call for action, demanding that we rethink and restructure our food systems not just for today, but for generations to come. We owe it to our children and our planet to move beyond incremental reforms and embrace true transformation -- HENRY DIMBLEBY Stuart Gillespie has spent over forty years working on the front-line of nutrition policies across the world - in this brilliant book, he pulls together why we're still seeing such high levels of malnutrition in the world, the role of corporations and key suggestions on how to improve it. A must-read for those interested in food and nutrition -- DEVI SRIDHAR, Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and bestselling author of PREVENTABLE Stuart Gillespie's decades in the trenches and in corridors of power have made him a clarion of reason and good sense in the battle against hunger. With ripping prose and a global sweep, Gillespie deploys a lifetime's evidence and brilliant argument to show that the only reasonable way to fix our food system is to transform it completely -- RAJ PATEL, author of STUFFED AND STARVED: THE HIDDEN BATTLE FOR THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM [Gillespie] has seen the devastating effects of power imbalances on the ground. Food Fight is an angry, tub-thumping polemic * * Financial Times * *

Author Information

Stuart Gillespie has been fighting to transform our dysfunctional food system for the past forty years. Stuart worked with a range of UN agencies across the world, before joining the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1999. Here he founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security, the Transform Nutrition research consortium, a flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health programme and the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions in public food and nutrition policy. Stuart's newsletter, Food Fight Files, tackles the political and commercial drivers of food injustice and malnutrition and what can and should be done about them. stuartgillespie.substack.com | @stuartgillespie.bsky.social

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