Gillespie writes beautifully with an urgent clarity. This isn’t just a good read, it’s an essential reference for anyone hoping to understand the food system, why it’s broken and how we might imagine fixing it. Scholarly, literate and deeply moving - Gillespie deftly draws on global expertise built over four decades working in nutrition and food policy. Food Fight is the essential food book of this year and years to come’ - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, author of ULTRA PROCESSED PEOPLE‘If you want to change our rotten corrupt food system, you first have to understand it. Food Fight is the gripping book we have been waiting for, from a veteran of the food wars. Essential reading for anyone interested in our health and the planet’ - TIM SPECTOR, author of SPOON FED and FOOD FOR LIFE ‘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, author of FOOD POLITICS ‘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, author of RAVENOUS

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.