This book is an update to the book about all aspects of food policy in the U.S. It covers policy changes since the 2018 Farm Bill, the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and President Trump’s approach to food and agricultural trade.  

This book traces the European Common Agricultural Policy from its conception to the present day. It aims to understand how many of today’s problems have roots whose branches extend back in time, and to draw useful insights to help the European Union develop an ambitious agricultural and rural development policy. 

Professor Jennifer Clapp investigates how a small handful of giant corporations have come to dominate the farm input sector, why it matters and what can be done about it. She explains how we got here, outlining the forces that enable this extreme concentration of power. 

The USDA’s Economic Research Service was uprooted from Washington, D.C., in a controversial move that gutted its expertise and reshaped its mission. This article explores the political motivations, the exodus of talent, and the agency’s struggle to rebuild.

This scoping review examines how policy coherence has been broadly defined and measured in areas related to food system transformation to inform conceptualization, definition, and measurement specific to food systems transformation and provide insights for policy and program implementation.

In early January, the TABLE team were out in force for two of the biggest farming events in the UK: the Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference. Taking place at the same time, these two events represent very different perspectives, reflecting not only the divergence in food and farming debates, but the consensus, too. In this edition of FODDER, I talk to TABLE researchers, Ruth Mattock and Richard Kipling who attended the two conferences. 

In this edition of FODDER, our main focus is on the US election. It’s about how food and corporate power has become a central part of Kamala Harris’ agenda through her commitment to a ban on price gouging. TABLE speaks to Professor Zephyr Teachout, a renowned US legal scholar specializing in price gouging and monopolies. She explains what price gouging is, what exactly Kamala Harris is planning and why there’s a growing appetite to take on the power of food corporations. 

Environmentalist Vandana Shiva argues food is the currency of life, indivisible from Earth and its natural systems. She claims to unpack the false promises of technology and reveal the dangers of UPFs and take a stand on a future based on the natural regeneration of biodiversity. 

This study aims to understand why agroecology transitions are so fraught with challenges. The authors have identified five interrelating dimensions for analysing these transitions, arguing that they have been explored in research separately and to varying degrees.