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Food Standard Agency Household Food Insecurity Report

This report establishes how the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) are responding to rising levels of food insecurity in the UK. With the price of food rising alongside other costs, UK consumers are reducing their spending on food, and decisions over what food to buy are coming under increased pressure. With the statutory objective of protecting consumers, the FSA is changing its practices to understand how food insecurity pressures are increasing the risk of unsafe practice and unsafe or inauthentic food.

Universal Food Security

Universal Food Security offers an accessible introduction to key areas that are driving research, investment and policy. Denning provides a well informed, partial account of how to solve global security through science led agricultural innovation. His approach sets out several key features for food system transformation: sustainable intensification, market infrastructure, postharvest stewardship, healthy diets and social protection.

Critical Mapping for Sustain Food Design

This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analysing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out existing solutions, and finding opportunities for sustainable design intervention.

Russia pulls out of Grain Deal, putting tens of millions at risk of food insecurity

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Russia has pulled out of the Black Seas Grain Initiative, risking the loss of millions of tonnes of food from the global market. The landmark deal made last summer provided assurance that ships entering and leaving ports in Ukraine would not be attacked. This allowed 32.9 mn tonnes of food to be exported to food insecure regions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia since August. The Kremlin announced on Monday that Russia would suspend the initiative until its demand to get its own agricultural shipments to the world are met, despite the fact that Russia has been exporting record quantities of wheat and fertilisers.

Climate change and conflict are fuelling Nigeria’s food insecurity crisis

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The joint forces of climate change and violent conflict are pushing Nigeria’s food security to the brink. It is estimated that over 25 million Nigerians will be food insecure in the coming months, with the country dropping from 97 to 107 out of 133 in international food security rankings. With two thirds of the labour force working in agriculture, the increasing extreme weather patterns brought about by climate change are putting the country under severe threat. Simultaneously, Boko Harma extremist groups continue to occupy the North of the country, where the majority of agricultural production takes place.

TABLE launches new beans video with BBC Ideas

The humble bean is taking up more room in research agendas and consumer consciousness, called upon as a valuable tool in modern challenges from climate change and malnutrition to the rising cost of living. TABLE launches a new video in collaboration with BBC Ideas that asks, what is it about beans?

Presenting "M4F: Ep4. Alternative 'meat'"

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A utopian evolution or science fiction dystopia?

We need a common language if anyone is to have a constructive debate

On 11 July, the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery hosted a debate between George Monbiot, a prominent critic and author, and Allan Savory, a founder and leading voice for Holistic Management. The event was titled "Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?" and was chaired by Professor EJ. Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford. TABLE's director Dr Tara Garnett was asked to write about her takeaways from the event. This blog was originally published on the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery's website.

Invasions, Protections, and the Legacy of Empire in the Animal Kingdom

Researcher Alma Igra finds that what it means for a species to be native has long been bound up with ideas of human belonging: relationships with animals have been one of the many ways in which colonisers have enacted and justified control over people, resources and animals. In this blog she asks if acknowledgement of this colonial legacy can give us a broader understanding of what it means to protect nature and who we protect it for, and a more inclusive approach to animal and environmental care. Alma Igra is a historian who writes about food, science and animals in the 20th century. She completed her PhD at Columbia University in 2020 and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy.