These three reports from the think-tank the Good Food Institute set out the global market landscape for three forms of alternative protein: cultivated, plant-based and fermented. The reports discuss retail trends, investments, science and technology developments, and government regulations.

This report from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future reviews the literature on the working conditions, social contexts and public health threats experienced by farmworkers and their communities in the US. 

In this paper, the authors draw on their experience as agricultural scientists who have worked in Latin America, Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia to argue that the land-sparing vs land-sharing framework has two major limitations.

This paper argues that novel foods such as microalgae, mycoprotein, molluscs and mealworm can be important sources of nutrition that are resilient to disturbances such as climate change, trade restrictions and disease.

This paper sets out a “safe climatic space” for food production and finds that, while climate change could put around one third of global crop and livestock production at risk, keeping to the Paris Agreement could reduce this risk considerably.

This article published by Civil Eats asks whether the concept of agroecology is being co-opted by proponents of marginal improvements to industrial agriculture systems. Some NGOs have introduced the term “junk agroecology” to refer to corporate forms of agroecology that do not inherently require a simultaneous social justice transformation.

TABLE member Luke Spajic has hosted an episode of the Climate Proof-Food Podcast, in which Dr Claas Kirchelle, historian of science, medicine, and technology at University College Dublin, speaks about the contribution of agriculture to antimicrobial resistance.

TABLE’s Tara Garnett has been interviewed on an episode of the podcast Great Green Questions, tackling the question: "Is being vegan the only way to save the planet?" The podcast episode covers the impacts of the production and consumption of both livestock and vegan alternatives, the ‘’tyranny of choice” and the implications of click and collect culture, and whether it is possible to farm without animals.

This essay collection from Dutch food innovation centre Flevo Campus discusses how the food system can become more resilient, bearing in mind the important events of 2020, including Brexit, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic.