This week in our newsletter Fodder: 🇺🇲 The debates inside U.S. farming communities 🐄 US grass-fed beef is as carbon intensive as industrial beef 🍟 Corporate Lobbying: The Dark Side of the Plate 👁️🗨️ PR campaign may have fuelled EAT-Lancet backlash 🛒 Food industry insiders warn that crises loom Read here: https://lnkd.in/gd-P9NRF This issue interviews Jesse Hirsch, editor of Ambrook Research, about the conversations inside American farming communities. If you'd like to see more insights and featured research in your inbox, subscribe to the newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gwYyC-_6 This week's issue features the work of: The Food Foundation , CIRAD, DeSmog, The Guardian, Bard College, Inside Track, Marco Springmann, Alice E., Sarah Buszard, Rebecca Tobi RNutr, Indu G., Katina-Leigh Taylor, Gidon Eshel, Florent Vieux, and Jack Thompson.
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TABLE seeks to facilitate informed discussions about how the food system can become sustainable, resilient, just, and ultimately “good”. We impartially set out the evidence, assumptions, and values that people bring to food system debates. Scientific knowledge is necessary for understanding the issues and complexities around healthy and sustainable food. But science alone cannot tell us how to act or what a good and ethical food system is. Making decisions about the food system involves value judgements about what is important and these depend on people’s preferences and visions for the future. Therefore, we aim to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and perspectives to bring out value-based reflections and to clarify the arguments, assumptions and evidence around issues of concern. Table is rooted in academia. We are a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR). Table is the successor to the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Oxford, which for 15 years conducted, synthesised, and communicated research on food sustainability.
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To ensure as many voices, faces, and organisations as possible join the knowledge-sharing that will take place at the 2026 conference, we've extended the call for submissions to Sunday, April 27th, at 23:59 BST. Don't miss out on the chance to shape the UK's largest gathering of the real food and farming movement. Submit your ideas for ORFC26 by then! Please share the call widely with your allies and networks so no one misses out on the opportunity to contribute to the ORFC26 programme. Submit your ideas and proposals now: https://lnkd.in/ecSi5CRW Soil Association Pasture for Life Emergent Generation The Landworkers' Alliance TABLE Animate Earth Collective Shared Assets La Via Campesina European Coordination Via Campesina Conscious Food Systems Alliance
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Can humanity feed nearly 10 billion people without frying the planet? That question is at the heart of journalist Michael Grunwald’s provocative argument in “Sorry, This Is the Future of Food,” his recent New York Times essay and the basis of his forthcoming book, We Are Eating the Earth. He warns that we’re clearing an acre of rainforest every six seconds to grow more food — and even if we quit fossil fuels, we won’t avert climate chaos unless we fix how we use land. In this episode of the Feed Podcast, Michael makes the case to Jack Thompson that high-yield industrial agriculture, for all its flaws, might be our best chance to grow more food on less land. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gj6j9YFx
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🌱 Don't forget to register for the summer symposium "Nature, Farming & Food: How we value our land" which runs 19-20 June in Oxford, co-hosted with British Ecological Society & The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. 🗓️ Early bird registration closes 16 May. ☀️ We hope to see you there!
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Can humanity feed nearly 10 billion people without frying the planet? That question is at the heart of journalist Michael Grunwald’s provocative argument in “Sorry, This Is the Future of Food,” his recent New York Times essay and the basis of his forthcoming book, We Are Eating the Earth. He warns that we’re clearing an acre of rainforest every six seconds to grow more food — and even if we quit fossil fuels, we won’t avert climate chaos unless we fix how we use land. In this episode of the Feed Podcast, Michael makes the case to Jack Thompson that high-yield industrial agriculture, for all its flaws, might be our best chance to grow more food on less land. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gj6j9YFx
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A PhD student is seeking women in farming for a research project this summer. See below for more details!
☀️ Recruiting women in farming for research project on future farming visions This spring, I’ll be cycling across England to interview women in farming communities about their visions for the future of farming. If you live, work, or volunteer on a farm near one of the areas highlighted on the map, I would love to hear from you! Learn more and register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eq74hk7x And follow along with the adventure at: https://lnkd.in/eaQA_HmG The Farming Community Network, CRPR University of Exeter, Exeter Food, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, NFU (National Farmers' Union), Nature Friendly Farming Network, Pasture for Life, National Women in Agriculture, Soil Association, The Landworkers' Alliance, Thomas Slattery, David Christian Rose
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🥝 How do we get to a different food system? 🙌 We were proud to support TABLE's collective exploration of the politics and economics of food system transformation. Over two days, their workshop brought together voices from across the food system, from civil society and academia, policy, business and community engagement, to imagine a better food future and how we might get there. 📃 From market-led to state-led to bottom-up approaches, we explored bold visions of the future, and found surprising areas of alignment. The newly published report captures the richness of those conversations. Well worth a read below! 👇
What happens when you bring together people with very different visions of the future of our food systems? Check out this summary of our latest report "Tomorrow on the Table: The politics and economics of food systems transformation". Find the full report here: https://lnkd.in/g26M92J4
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Very inspiring podcast: Interview by Matthew Kessler with Ken Giller During the 5th Global Food Security Conference in Leuven, Table Debates recorded several interviews. It took a while, but now the final episode of this series is online. And what an episode! I really enjoyed listening to Ken's wise insights on science, #sustainability, #foodsystems, #polarisation, and so much more
Are you caught up on the Feed Podcast? In our latest episode, Ken Giller, recently retired professor at Wageningen University & Research, makes the case for more nuanced discussion after four decades of witnessing both progress and setbacks in supporting farmers worldwide. He and host Matthew Kessler discuss the dangers of populist narratives that oversimplify agricultural challenges, how to reshape research incentives to embrace complexity and nuance, why he opposes carbon credit schemes for farmers, and more. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/g8zwbKhs
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Don't miss last week's issue of Fodder! Read here: https://lnkd.in/gCNeNhgU
This week in our newsletter FODDER: 🍚 The politics of rice and palm oil with journalist Thin Lei Win 🌏 Research Priorities for Food System Transformation in South Asia 🙋 How inclusive should food system transitions be? ⚠️ Just in case: How to increase food resilience 🚮 Used by: How businesses dump their food waste on food charities This issue interviews journalist Thin Lei Win about several food systems debates in Southeast Asia: from the politics of rice to palm oil, and how the region flies under the radar in global food system debates. We also explored Thin’s upbringing in Myanmar, why she became a food systems journalist and what gives her optimism for the future. You can find this interview and many other timely resources about food systems in the newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gCNeNhgU In between recording this interview and publishing, Myanmar experienced a devastating earthquake. Our thoughts at TABLE go to those affected. Please consider donating to Myanmar Earthquake Relief, an organisation recommended by Thin who are working in the affected area and directly with local volunteers: https://lnkd.in/gHN_HAQR If you'd like to see more insights and featured research in your inbox, subscribe to the newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gwYyC-_6 This week's issue features the work of: Lighthouse Reports, Feedback , Purnima Menon, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Else Giesbers, Wageningen Social Sciences, Thomas Mattijssen, Cees Leeuwis, Lars Landsman, SDG2 Advocacy Hub, Paul Newnham, Antony So, City St George’s, University of London, & Jack Thompson.
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Lives, breathes & writes Food Systems & Climate issues with Lighthouse Reports, Thin Ink, The New Humanitarian + others. Ex-Thomson Reuters Foundation, Co-Founder (Kite Tales Myanmar), Founder (Myanmar Now)
This has been a very surreal week, with losses both personal and collective. As you probably know by now, Myanmar, where I was born and raised, was hit by an earthquake that was both powerful and shallow - a deadly combination. This happened on a Friday just as I was embarking on a work trip. Frantic messages and doom scrolling have been the order of the week. Then on Saturday, Gwen Robinson, an old friend whose love for Myanmar is well-known and who has done much to support Burmese journalists, passed away. She was also a big champion of my work and an outspoken supporter of The Kite Tales. I’m very grateful for the chance to see her briefly last month, hold her hand, and tell her we love her. So inevitably, this week's issue has to touch on the earthquake, but I'm also very grateful to the folks at TABLE for (1) letting me speak about Southeast Asia's food systems because the region often gets ignored in the global debates, and (2) letting me reproduce the Q&A in full. Special thanks to Jack Thompson for turning our long and wide-ranging conversation into an understandable conversation. https://lnkd.in/gCbMTBiD