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.

This report from IDH, the sustainable trade initiative sets out lessons learned from the work of the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund, a tool for market investment in sustainable land management such as sustainable forestry, climate mitigation projects and payments for ecosystems services. The report includes case studies on hazelnut production in Bhutan, cocoa and coffee agroforestry in Nicaragua, and sustainable forestry landscapes in Ghana and Sierra Leone.

This report from the World Resources Institute discusses how agriculture in Denmark can become carbon neutral, in line with the net zero commitments made by many Danish agricultural organisations. It stresses the need to continuously improve agricultural technologies by supporting cooperation between researchers, farmers and businesses.

This briefing paper by the COP26 Universities Network explains what nature-based solutions (NbS) are and sets out policy recommendations for their implementation in the UK, spanning the UK’s chance to use the COP26 summit to promote the global adoption of good practice principles for NbS, strategic planning at the landscape scale, the economic incentives needed for NbS schemes to be effective, metrics and monitoring, and involving communities.

This report from the United Nations Environment Programme assesses the implications of cutting global methane emissions, including those from agriculture, fossil fuels and waste. It finds that reducing human-caused methane emissions by 45% this decade would avoid nearly 0.3°C of warming by the 2040s as well as have significant co-benefits in reducing premature deaths, asthma-related hospital visits and crop losses (related to ozone exposure, as methane promotes ground-level ozone formation) and work hours lost to extreme heat (related to climate change).

This special issue of the journal Restoration Ecology examines trends, opportunities and research gaps in the restoration of grassland ecosystems. TABLE readers may be particularly interested in the special issue’s coverage of grazing and land-use legacies.

This paper argues that the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is being used by large corporations, philanthropic organisations and export-oriented countries to take control of the narrative around food systems transformation and undermine more democratic forms of food systems governance. It analyses how the Summit was organised and how stakeholders were selected to take part.