Archive - Thin Ink

The Animals Are Not Alright

As floods and heatwaves intensify, farm animals remain invisible in EU disaster planning & response

Mar 27 • Thin

The Saturday Queue

What community kitchens reveal about hunger in rich Europe

Mar 20 • Thin

The Fertiliser Trap

The history, power, & cost of the chemicals feeding the world

Mar 13 • Thin

Not Victims, But Architects

FAO’s Piedad Martin on why what gets measured gets funded, and what happens when women farmers hold real authority

Mar 6 • Thin

February 2026

A Food Fight Worth Having

A Conversation with Stuart Gillespie

Feb 27 • Thin

Five forces reshaping food systems in 2026

Guest commentary on how food systems are being reorganised

Feb 20 • Thin

We Don’t Have a Food Production Problem

We have an access, power and rights problem

Feb 13 • Thin

Who Grows Our Food…?

And other papers about power, plastic, protein, & who pays the price

Feb 6 • Thin

January 2026

Five Years of Darkness

The fight to keep Myanmar’s stories alive

Jan 30 • Thin

How food systems issues have evolved, what I’ve learnt, and where to go from here

Jan 23 • Thin

The Cost of Weak Competition

From grocery mergers to cross-border cartels, how anti-competitive conduct in Africa’s food systems affect prices & livelihoods

Jan 16 • Thin

The Real Big Tent

Food, climate, and why rejecting purism ≠ rejecting responsibility

Jan 9 • Thin

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