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Family farms: A personal reflection

This reflection about family farming in the UK – and some of the changes seen over 5 generations – was written in response to a conversation on social media, which led to the question: have we given up on the mixed family farm as a food producing entity? About the author: Richard Bainbridge is a 3rd generation English farmer and retired Methodist Minister.

TABLE Summary series: Soy

This is a brief summary of the longer TABLE Explainer “Soy: Food, Feed, and Land Use Change”. It aims to illuminate key debates surrounding and linked to soy, land use change and animal- versus plant-based protein. Citations and references for the information discussed can be found in the full explainer (note certain statistics have been updated if available). Written by Jack Bosanquet

TABLE Summary series: Agroecology

This is a brief summary of the longer TABLE Explainer “What is agroecology?”. It aims to define the concept and illuminate key debates surrounding agroecology. Citations and references for the information discussed below can be found in the full explainer. Written by Jack Bosanquet

TABLE Summary series: Food Sovereignty

This is a brief summary of the longer TABLE Explainer “What is food sovereignty?”. It aims to define the concept and illuminate key debates surrounding food sovereignty. Citations and references for the information discussed below can be found in the full explainer. Written by Jack Bosanquet

The role of visions, values and assumptions in determining the future of our food system

TABLE’s director, Tara Garnett, gave a talk at the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) symposium on the environmental impact of food systems earlier this summer. We are summarising the talk here, because it provides a good introduction to TABLE’s approach to food system debates.

Presenting "M4F: Ep5. Less meat"

Podcast episode

Triple win for people, planet and animals or elitist and unrealistic?

Presenting "M4F: Ep6. Plant-based"

Podcast episode

Planet friendly eating or going against our nature?

Setting the table for COP28 - Event Recordings

Following last year's popular event series, TABLE will again be hosting a series of 3 online events this autumn leading up to COP28:Nitrogen, climate change and food: showing the connections on 16 October at 5pm BSTCan nature-based solutions deliver on their promise? on 31 October at 5pm GMTChanging diets to tackle climate change - what’s the role of government? on 14 November at 5pm GMTPlease join us as we explore questions regarding the evidence and values behind debates around food systems, nature and governance.Update: These events have already occurred. Please use the links below to watch the event recordings.

Diets high in animal products have increased negative environmental outcomes regardless of production, sourcing, calories or metrics

Journal articles

This paper uses data on the real life (as opposed to modelled) dietary practices of vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters to compare environmental impacts across all major environmental measures. The paper links one of the largest datasets available on the true dietary practice of different self-identified dietary groups (vegan, vegetarian, meat eater etc.), with data on the environmental impact of 589 foods across ten environmental measures from 570 life-cycle assessments.