Drawing on 51 interviews with founders, engineers, product designers, dairy experts/advisors, board members/investors and farmers, the study examines a range of digital tools, including animal health and behaviour monitoring sensors, pasture measurement systems, herd management applications and decision-support applications. It shows how design logics and commercial models can misalign technologies with ecological and organisational realities.

This review found that in 500 studies, 78 (15.6%) reported industry involvement. Studies with industry ties were 16 times more likely to report favourable conclusions regarding meat consumption. 

This article argues that scientist, policymakers and NGOs have a carbon tunnel vision on addressing meat - a disproportionate focus on reducing emissions. The authors claim this tends to oversimplify the meat issue, ignoring regional variations, mitigation potential, and ecological and nutritional contexts. It concludes that hyperbolic narratives, and misguided policies risk compromising the reform of existing meat industries. 

This research found that discretionary foods that include sweets, biscuits and desserts accounted for 22% of spending and contributed up to 17–32% of environmental impacts. Reducing discretionary food consumption could yield notable environmental benefits and allow reallocation of expenditure towards more nutritious foods.

Soil organic carbon stock is a key component impacting agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. However, a standardized methodology for integrating SOC stock changes into agricultural life cycle analyses is still debated. This study integrated SOC stock balance into LCA of the carbon footprint of milk production at farm level based on data from a research dairy farm in Helsinki, raising the carbon footprint by 41%. 

The future of food is in peril. Food production around the globe is both a contributor to and a victim of climate change, while population growth and shifting consumption patterns threaten to outpace supply. The Future of Food examines the current issues facing our food supply and considers the potential solutions, low-tech and high-tech, to those challenges.

This webinar was hosted by TABLE on 16 April 2026 and took the form of a discussion between:Matt Abel, assistant professor, Southern Methodist University;Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas, associate researcher, Centro de Estudios Populares and Catholic University.Matthew Kessler of TABLE introduced the speakers and moderated the Q&A.

The Big Three asset managers (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street) appear to be reinforcing shareholder primacy in health-harming commodity industries, including by undermining many shareholder-led social and environmental initiatives, which risks perpetuating widespread health inequities. 

This book examines the politics of agrarian change in the Gulf. The author Christian Henderson considers the way that the Gulf states represent 'inverted farms', where the import of prodigious quantities of agricultural commodities has enabled these economies to overcome their lack of arable land. As a result of this trade, states such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have developed their own agribusiness sectors.