📢 Three days left to apply 📢

Our team is growing (again) and we're hiring a Researcher & Programme Manager to work at the interface of research, practice & science communication.

🗓️ Apply by 10 May 2024

More details here: tabledebates.org/opportunities/…

Does CRISPR make our food unnatural?

Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr (University of La Verne), host of A CRISPR Bite, spoke w/ Feed Podcast about whether tech innovations such as gene editing & CRISPR are addressing root causes of food systems challenges.

tabledebates.org/podcast/episod…

Carbon dioxide & methane often take centre stage in discussions about the food system & its climate changing impact.

Nitrous oxide, arising use of nitrogen in agricultural production, often receives much less attention.

Have you read our explainer? 👀
tabledebates.org/building-block…

Affordable fresh produce is a key 🇪🇺 food system goal, but year-round availability relies on labor instability. ICLEI's María Alonso Martínez explores this in Spain's Almería, the world's largest greenhouse concentration city. Read her blog via TABLE: bit.ly/3xmv86a

📢 One week left to apply 📢

Our team is growing (again) and we're hiring a Researcher & Programme Manager to work at the interface of research, practice & science communication.

🗓️ Apply by 10 May 2024

More details here: tabledebates.org/opportunities/…

Our 2024 Essay Challenge winner is BU PhD candidate Martin Aucoin! 🎉

Martin's essay reflects on our understanding of the word 'natural' & on the deeply embedded but often invisible structures our food systems rely upon.

Read the essay: tabledebates.org/blog/de-natura… BU Anthropology

Our Guyo Malicha Roba, PhD recently participated in a discussion on livestock and environment hosted by TABLE . He called for more, and more relevant, evidence and seats at tables for pastoralist voices: jameelobservatory.org/livestock-role…

Does CRISPR make our food unnatural?

Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr (University of La Verne), host of A CRISPR Bite, spoke w/ Feed Podcast this week about whether tech innovations such as gene editing & CRISPR are addressing root causes of food systems challenges.

tabledebates.org/podcast/episod…

'I began to regard the poultry plant as a strange organism that digests live animals, repackaging them for convenient human consumption. Machine and animal blur together, the neat categories collapsing as grain becomes chicken becomes meat becomes human.'

tabledebates.org/blog/de-natura…

The 3rd season of TABLE's podcast Feed is 6 episodes in!

🍄 We've spoken with various food systems experts on 'should food systems be more natural?', 'should we eat invasive species?', and 'what does history say about our food choices?'

Listen here: tabledebates.org/podcast

There's still time to apply for this role! ⬇️

A written summary of our event 'Global villain, local saviour? - what's the role of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa?' is now available.

Find the recording & summary of the thoughts shared by Laura Cramer, Mario Herrero, Guyo Malicha Roba, PhD, & An Notenbaert:
tabledebates.org/research-libra…

What influences the meals we enjoy today?

Meal historian & cultural researcher Richard Tellström (Stockholm University) suggests that our food choices are primarily shaped by cultural, political and economic forces in the 6th episode of Feed Season 3.

Listen: tabledebates.org/podcast/episod…

Start your week off right by catching up on the latest issue of Fodder ⬇️👀

Recently posted to our jobs & opportunities board:

2-year postdoc in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of livestock systems with SLU & Horizon_StepUp

🗓️ Apply by 9 May

tabledebates.org/opportunities/…

The 3rd season of TABLE's podcast Feed is 6 episodes in!

🍄 We've spoke with various food systems experts on 'should food systems be more natural?', 'should we eat invasive species?', and 'what does history say about our food choices?'

Listen here: tabledebates.org/podcast

What influences the meals we enjoy today?

Meal historian & cultural researcher Richard Tellström (Stockholm University) suggests that our food choices are primarily shaped by cultural, political and economic forces in the 6th episode of Feed Season 3.

Listen: tabledebates.org/podcast/episod…

Are you an early career researcher in aquatic food systems?

Cathrine Baungaard & Urja Thakrar have created a survey to evaluate interest and learn what early career researchers would like to see from a network.

Find the survey here: bit.ly/3VYqR3b