This study identifies consumer barriers to cultivated meat in public tasting. It showed the importance of aligning cultivated meat with ethical priorities while meeting sensory and transparency expectations to build consumer trust.

This study shows that in organic and conventional arable fields, the health of soils increases with lower intensity of management; less-frequent tillage and increased cover cropping, claiming that organic farming did not outperform conventional farming. The authors argue that the paradigm of sustainable intensification should be replaced by “productive deintensification.” 

This paper argues that increased corporate concentration and power in food systems has the capacity to undermine people’s agency in three core ways. Companies with high market concentration charge higher prices, suppress wages and weaken livelihood opportunities, they shape consumers’ choices, and their corporate lobbying weakens democratic participation.  

This event was co-hosted by TABLE and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food on 2 June 2025 in a hybrid format and took the form of a panel discussion moderated by Tara Garnett (Director, TABLE) with:Rohit Kaushish (Chief Economics Advisor, National Farmers' Union);Constance McDermott (Associate Professor and Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Land Use and Environmental Change, Oriel College and the Environmental Change Institute at University of Oxford);Vassilis Gkoumas (Economist, WWF-UK);Henry Leveson-Gower (Founder & CEO, Promoting Economic Pluralism).The event was inspired by the TABLE explainer Making Nature Count: How should we value nature in our food systems? (authored by Henry Leveson-Gower). 

This book explores the ways in which famine results from political decision-making, and how  the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool.

This book explores how our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. 

NGO Changing Markets finds that some of the world’s biggest makers and users of dairy products are failing to cut emissions of the climate-critical gas methane. 

This report by Climate Shot Investor analyzes climate finance going to global agrifood systems in 2021/22, tracking flows across climate uses, financial sources, sectors, regions, and instruments.

There’s a growing concern of the rise of industrial livestock production, but conversation can stall over definitions and shared understanding. This report by the Eating Better Alliance presents a definition, and a case for change.