Featured item: New episode of "Feed"
In this conversation with U. of Oxford environmental geographer Jamie Lorimer, we discuss different ways of conceptualizing scale; how ideas of scalability, globalization, and homogenization have shaped food and other systems; and how the tiniest of actors, microbes, can potentially have huge impacts on these systems.
Listen to the episode here, and please rate and review on Apple podcast!
What's new?
- Review: Impacts of plastics in the food system
Featured articles - Water and socioeconomic impacts of avocado production
Journal articles
- Influence of farm size and structure on agroecological practices
Journal articles - Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions
Featured articles
- Banning wild meat could harm food security and biodiversity
Journal articles - Pest management practices depend on who advises farmers
Journal articles
- Sustainable nutrition in company and prison canteens
Journal articles - The political challenge of red and processed meat reduction
Journal articles
Research library
Table’s Research library holds thousands of summaries of journal papers, reports and news articles on a wide variety of food systems topics. To keep up to date with new entries in the research library, subscribe to our newsletter, Fodder.
- Podcast: How climate-linked food insecurity shapes migration
News and resources
- Ecological deskilling from uptake of modern seed varieties
Journal articles
Explainers
Table produces Explainers on food systems topics. These include Building Blocks - concise explanations of key concepts - and Chapters - clear overviews of key issues for food systems sustainability.
- What is animal welfare?
Building blocks
- What is environmental efficiency? And is it sustainable?
Building blocks
- What is food loss and food waste?
Building blocks - What is sustainable intensification?
Building blocks
