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Hibba first entered the department as a BA Geography undergraduate in 2013, before going on to complete an MSc there in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance. She divides her time between fieldwork, teaching undergraduates, and undertaking various part-time research assistant roles, including a project on parenting and the gut microbiome, one on meat normalisation media narratives, and one with the RSPCA on laboratory rat welfare. Hibba is interested in all things farm animal welfare and food sustainability. Her first TABLE blog, in which she sets out the aims of her PhD research, can be found here: Distancing death: slaughter, welfare and consumption in the British halal meat industry. Read Image Publication Exploring the ebbs and flows of Regenerative Agriculture, Organic and Agroecology The regenerative, organic and agroecology movements share many concerns, and offer seemingly similar solutions. We, at TABLE, therefore began to ask ourselves if they are perhaps repeated attempts to articulate the same things, or whether there are substantive differences. Dr George Cusworth (U Oxford) and Rachel Carlile (U Edinburgh) worked with graphic designer Emily Liang (WUR) to develop a diagram articulating these agricultural movements' similarities and differences. Read Image Publication What scale for the food system? Moving beyond polarised debates This report shares our reflections on TABLE’s most recent project of work – a series of dialogues and discussions with food systems stakeholders, focused on the theme of ‘scale’ in the food system. Read Image Explainer What is agroecology? In response to concerns about global hunger and malnutrition, climate and environmental crises, and corporate consolidation in agri-food value chains, increasing numbers of stakeholders are arguing for agroecology as a way of providing healthy nutritious food in an equitable and sustainable manner. This explainer provides an overview of the historical development and various definitions of agroecology and explores some of the major debates related to its use. https://www.doi.org/10.56661/96cf1b98 Read Image Essay Answering audience questions from a "A dialogue on Regenerative Agriculture" On 11 May 2021, TABLE and LEAP facilitated a dialogue between Ken Giller (Wageningen University) and Yichao Rui (Rodale Institute) on the topic of Regenerative Agriculture. We asked: why is it taking the world by storm and what are the broader implications for farmers and food systems? We received over 70 questions during the event. We've clustered the most commonly asked questions into different themes, and the panellists have generously agreed to respond to them. For more information on the event, visit here. Read Image Explainer What is food sovereignty? Food sovereignty, “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems,” is often discussed as an alternative political framework and approach to food security (Nyéléni, 2007). Food sovereignty has grown as a countermovement to the growing dominance of industrial agricultural practices, the increasing power of corporations in the global food system, and the convergence of diets towards more imported and processed foods. This explainer explores food sovereignty as a concept and movement, how it differs from the concept of food security, criticisms of the movement, and evolving definitions. https://www.doi.org/10.56661/f07b52cc Read Image Essay Introducing the Wageningen Alternative Protein Project This blog post is written by Panagiotis Vlachogiannis in collaboration with Anna Celli, Shan He, Aditya Vaze and Julia Gil N. Martin, all MSc students at Wageningen University & Research. For more information on the authors, see the end of this piece. Read Image Essay The emergence of an international food system - the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Roman period Dr Kelly Reed is an archaeobotanist with interests in food systems, agricultural development and cultural adaptations to environmental change in the past. She is currently the programme manager for the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and the Wellcome Trust-funded Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project based at Oxford University. Dr Lisa Lodwick is an archaeologist who researches shifts in agricultural production in Iron Age and Roman Europe and the Mediterranean. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. Read Image Essay Why the climate emergency demands food waste regulation Martin Bowman is the Senior Policy and Campaigns Manager at Feedback, managing Feedback’s campaigns related to food waste and anaerobic digestion. He was previously the UK coordinator for Feedback’s Gleaning Network and worked on its Pig Idea campaign. He is a contributor to Routledge Handbook of Food Waste, a TEDx speaker, and has helped coordinate several This Is Rubbish campaigns. Read VIEW MORE
Image Essay On flesh and the spirit: understanding British Muslims’ meat consumption Hibba Mazhary is a part-time PhD student in Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Hibba first entered the department as a BA Geography undergraduate in 2013, before going on to complete an MSc there in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance. She divides her time between fieldwork, teaching undergraduates, and undertaking various part-time research assistant roles, including a project on parenting and the gut microbiome, one on meat normalisation media narratives, and one with the RSPCA on laboratory rat welfare. Hibba is interested in all things farm animal welfare and food sustainability. Her first TABLE blog, in which she sets out the aims of her PhD research, can be found here: Distancing death: slaughter, welfare and consumption in the British halal meat industry. Read
Image Publication Exploring the ebbs and flows of Regenerative Agriculture, Organic and Agroecology The regenerative, organic and agroecology movements share many concerns, and offer seemingly similar solutions. We, at TABLE, therefore began to ask ourselves if they are perhaps repeated attempts to articulate the same things, or whether there are substantive differences. Dr George Cusworth (U Oxford) and Rachel Carlile (U Edinburgh) worked with graphic designer Emily Liang (WUR) to develop a diagram articulating these agricultural movements' similarities and differences. Read
Image Publication What scale for the food system? Moving beyond polarised debates This report shares our reflections on TABLE’s most recent project of work – a series of dialogues and discussions with food systems stakeholders, focused on the theme of ‘scale’ in the food system. Read
Image Explainer What is agroecology? In response to concerns about global hunger and malnutrition, climate and environmental crises, and corporate consolidation in agri-food value chains, increasing numbers of stakeholders are arguing for agroecology as a way of providing healthy nutritious food in an equitable and sustainable manner. This explainer provides an overview of the historical development and various definitions of agroecology and explores some of the major debates related to its use. https://www.doi.org/10.56661/96cf1b98 Read
Image Essay Answering audience questions from a "A dialogue on Regenerative Agriculture" On 11 May 2021, TABLE and LEAP facilitated a dialogue between Ken Giller (Wageningen University) and Yichao Rui (Rodale Institute) on the topic of Regenerative Agriculture. We asked: why is it taking the world by storm and what are the broader implications for farmers and food systems? We received over 70 questions during the event. We've clustered the most commonly asked questions into different themes, and the panellists have generously agreed to respond to them. For more information on the event, visit here. Read
Image Explainer What is food sovereignty? Food sovereignty, “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems,” is often discussed as an alternative political framework and approach to food security (Nyéléni, 2007). Food sovereignty has grown as a countermovement to the growing dominance of industrial agricultural practices, the increasing power of corporations in the global food system, and the convergence of diets towards more imported and processed foods. This explainer explores food sovereignty as a concept and movement, how it differs from the concept of food security, criticisms of the movement, and evolving definitions. https://www.doi.org/10.56661/f07b52cc Read
Image Essay Introducing the Wageningen Alternative Protein Project This blog post is written by Panagiotis Vlachogiannis in collaboration with Anna Celli, Shan He, Aditya Vaze and Julia Gil N. Martin, all MSc students at Wageningen University & Research. For more information on the authors, see the end of this piece. Read
Image Essay The emergence of an international food system - the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Roman period Dr Kelly Reed is an archaeobotanist with interests in food systems, agricultural development and cultural adaptations to environmental change in the past. She is currently the programme manager for the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and the Wellcome Trust-funded Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project based at Oxford University. Dr Lisa Lodwick is an archaeologist who researches shifts in agricultural production in Iron Age and Roman Europe and the Mediterranean. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. Read
Image Essay Why the climate emergency demands food waste regulation Martin Bowman is the Senior Policy and Campaigns Manager at Feedback, managing Feedback’s campaigns related to food waste and anaerobic digestion. He was previously the UK coordinator for Feedback’s Gleaning Network and worked on its Pig Idea campaign. He is a contributor to Routledge Handbook of Food Waste, a TEDx speaker, and has helped coordinate several This Is Rubbish campaigns. Read
