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Nicholas Nisbett

Researcher at Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Publications -  62
Citations -  2175

Nicholas Nisbett is an academic researcher from Philippine Institute for Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Food systems. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1704 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Nisbett include Government Office for Science & Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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The future of the global food system

TL;DR: The collected papers suggest that major advances in sustainable food production and availability can be achieved with the concerted application of current technologies (given sufficient political will), and the importance of investing in research sooner rather than later to enable the food system to cope with both known and unknown challenges in the coming decades.
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The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture

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TL;DR: The UK Government's Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures project as mentioned in this paper aims to improve dialogue and understanding between agricultural research and policy by identifying the 100 most important questions for global agriculture.
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The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

TL;DR: The ways in which three domains (knowledge and evidence, politics and governance, and capacity and resources) are pivotal to create and sustain political momentum, and to translate momentum into results in high-burden countries are discussed.
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Friendship, consumption, morality: practising identity, negotiating hierarchy in middle-class Bangalore

TL;DR: This article examined the shared social and cultural practices of a group of young middle-class men in Bangalore and highlighted the role of friendship in providing a space for the negotiation of hierarchies, both old and new.
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Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition

TL;DR: A review of existing literature on nutrition politics and policy can be found in this paper, where the authors identify a number of recurring themes surrounding knowledge; politics; and capacities, and demonstrate how there are gaps in our understanding that might be addressed from wider development scholarship on politics and related issues such as power and the state, participation and accountability.