This event was hosted by TABLE on 31 October 2023 and took the format of a panel discussion with:Dr Tara Garnett (director of TABLE);Professor Nathalie Seddon (Nature-based Solutions Initiative, University of Oxford);Kirtana Chandrasekaran (Friends of the Earth International);Jutta Kill (World Rainforest Movement);Roberto S. Waack (Arapyaú Institute, Associate Fellow of Chatham House).

This event was hosted by TABLE on 16 October 2023 and took the format of a panel discussion with:Dr Tara Garnett (director of TABLE);Professor Wim de Vries (Wageningen University & Research);Pauline Chivenge (International Rice Research Institute);Rasmus Einarsson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences).

Supported by thirty six well-known organisations, Royal Colleges and charities, a new campaign ‘Recipe for Change’ is calling on the Government to introduce a new industry levy to make food healthier. The campaign highlights research by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine demonstrating that salt and sugar levies could prevent over 1 million cases of cardiovascular disease (CVD), 571,00 cases of type 2 diabetes, 11,000 cases of cancer and 249,000 cases of respiratory disease.

Given the huge impact that the food system has on climate change, the food industry is coming under increasing pressure from investors, politicians, environmental groups and consumers to clean up their operations and set out strong net zero targets. However this is exerting downward pressure on farmers who are being forced to comply with large industry players' demands or risk losing their contracts.

This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to food policy in the UK. The book covers various topics, including healthy and sustainable diets, food insecurity, finance, public sector food initiatives and food safety as well as the role of media, the food industry and government. The book is addressed to students, scholars, policymakers and professionals, as well as those interested in food systems.

Former James Beard Foundation Vice President of Impact Katherine Miller shares the essential techniques she developed whilst training chefs to be policy and change advocates. These include learning how to focus efforts, identify audience, develop arguments, recruit allies and catch attention in the media landscape. 

Beyond the Kitchen Table is a collection of articles on the role of Black Women in global food systems. Topics include the contribution of black women to community building, matrilineal food-based education, the role of networks in addressing food insecurity, intersectionality in the food system and more. 

The narrative that individuals are responsible for their food choices and dietary health forms a large part of political and media messaging. This report demonstrates that behaviour is in fact influenced by a wide array of factors that are out of the consumer’s control and that effective policies to improve dietary health need to go further than nutrition and cooking education and public health campaigns.

This report is a follow on to The Farm to Fork strategy, announced by the European Commission in 2020, that presented a series of policy goals based on the assumption that consumers choose food through a rational and reflective process. Incorporating scientific evidence that consumer choice is actually largely influenced and restricted by food environments, this report sets out a set of recommendations for a mix of policy interventions to overcome the barriers that are preventing consumers from adopting more sustainable and healthier diets.