What does a future with 'better' relationships with the animals we eat look like? Animals living natural lives through regenerative farming? Meat-free living? A future where science eliminates animal suffering? Join our panel discussion on 10 Sept: https://lnkd.in/gjWAGdyJ
About us
TABLE seeks to facilitate informed discussions about how the food system can become sustainable, resilient, just, and ultimately “good”. We impartially set out the evidence, assumptions, and values that people bring to food system debates. Scientific knowledge is necessary for understanding the issues and complexities around healthy and sustainable food. But science alone cannot tell us how to act or what a good and ethical food system is. Making decisions about the food system involves value judgements about what is important and these depend on people’s preferences and visions for the future. Therefore, we aim to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and perspectives to bring out value-based reflections and to clarify the arguments, assumptions and evidence around issues of concern. Table is rooted in academia. We are a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR). Table is the successor to the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Oxford, which for 15 years conducted, synthesised, and communicated research on food sustainability.
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http://tabledebates.org
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- Research Services
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- 2-10 employees
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- Oxford
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- Educational
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- 2020
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- Food sustainability
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Oxford, GB
Employees at TABLE
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Dimitri Houtart
Environment, Food, Rural Affairs & Natural History Exec Editor; BBC Rural Affairs Champion; board member & Diversity Advocate
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Camilo Ardila Galvis
Sustainable rural development | Family farming | Agroecology | Public Policy
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Heather Stallard
Communications and Events Officer
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Tara Garnett
Director of TABLE, University of Oxford
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Dear colleagues and students, I am happy to inform you that the latest episode of the Feed Podcast, produced by TABLE, is out now. In this episode, you will listen how thanks to Matthew Kessler's insightful questions, I try to articulate why valuation services and goods that are currently not traded in a market is useful to inform policy decisions. Salvador Meneses Requena, and Iljana Schubert, you will see that I have used our work as illustrations. I hope I have done a good job. Rebecca Albrecht, Suze van der Zwet, Alba Tobio, you may find it useful for purposes of our own projects. Colleagues at SLU Global, Focali - Forests, Climate & Livelihoods, Red-MOPTO, ACCESS, and IDA I believe that the ideas discussed in this episode can trigger inter- and trans-disciplinary projects (Elisabeth Bolund,Marie Stenseke,Verena Germann,Erik Ockinger,Märit Jansson, Cesar Viteri Mejia, Michael Tanner, Carlos Enrique Orihuela Romero, Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, Marcela Sjöberg, Camilla Widmark, Do-hun Kim what do you think? :-)) Looking forward to learning your feedback.
Why should we value nature in our economies? In the latest episode of Feed, environmental economist Adan L. Martinez-Cruz argues that markets are a fundamental aspect of human society. He suggests that assigning a monetary value to natural resources can provide environmental benefits and create economic incentives to achieve them. In this episode, we discuss concept of non-market valuation, consider whether nature has inherent value, and examine whether markets are the best way to ensure fairness in the cost of food for both consumers and producers. Listen: https://lnkd.in/grjGCNSB
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Why should we value nature in our economies? In the latest episode of Feed, environmental economist Adan L. Martinez-Cruz argues that markets are a fundamental aspect of human society. He suggests that assigning a monetary value to natural resources can provide environmental benefits and create economic incentives to achieve them. In this episode, we discuss concept of non-market valuation, consider whether nature has inherent value, and examine whether markets are the best way to ensure fairness in the cost of food for both consumers and producers. Listen: https://lnkd.in/grjGCNSB
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What does a future with 'better' relationships with the animals we eat look like? 🗓 10 Sept at 4:30pm BST (online) Join TABLE's upcoming panel discussion with moderator Jenny Splitter and panelists Harriet Bartlett, Josh Milburn, Nikki Yoxall, Hibba Mazhary & Cleo Verkuijl: https://lnkd.in/gjWAGdyJ
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Our latest explainer summaries are out in the world! Each of the four briefs focuses on: - Regenerative agriculture - Land sparing / land sharing - Feed-food competition - Ecomodernism Check out these resources & more briefs on crucial food systems topics: https://lnkd.in/eXGGJnun
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If you're still buzzing about the Olympics, don't forget to check out Jack Thompson's think piece on the Paris Food Vision for the Olympics: https://lnkd.in/gm9VfTu7
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How do we measure biodiversity? Climate change has a 1.5 degree target, but there is no equivalent for the biodiversity crisis. This week's Feed episode dives into understanding biodiversity with Ville Lähde of the BIOS Research Institute. Philosopher and environmental researcher Ville Lähde argues that we need to understand biodiversity differently at a fundamental level in order to preserve it. Biodiversity loss is much more than the list of extinct and endangered species. In our conversation, we talk about the myriad food systems and their different relationships with biodiversity, what are the hidden costs of simplifying biodiversity, and why Ville feels closest to biodiversity when working with his compost pile. Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/gaH3a5sg
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How does a farmer find balance between food and nature in regenerative agriculture? In a new essay, student & dairy farmer Joe Lyall rejects polarising food system solutions to find balance between food & nature in regenerative agriculture: https://lnkd.in/gvy9xYNk
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What role does naturalness play in the ultra-processed food debates? Our latest explainer is up as an audio version on the Feed Podcast. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gpWdG6Rm
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If you've been following the Olympics, you may have heard the claim that the 2024 Paris Olympics is the most sustainable edition of the event in history. But what does that mean for food at the Olympics? Jack Thompson examined the Paris 2024 Food Vision, spoke with experts from The Sustainable Restaurant Association, and examined available information about past Olympics to try to elucidate this claim when it comes to what's being served up at the Olympics this summer. Read the commentary here: https://lnkd.in/gm9VfTu7
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