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. 

The FAO assesses the global plant genetics for food and agriculture, based on information from 128 countries and four regional and 13 international research centres. It reports on the progress since 2012 and challenges and needs for the future. 

This study explores indigenous dairy production in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and how production – essential for regional food and nutrition security, and adapting to climate change – could be enhanced through scientific practices.