TABLE’s mission: ingredients for better dialogue. TABLE is a food systems platform that sets out the evidence, assumptions and values that people bring to debates about resilient and sustainable food futures. They explore the data, the biases and the beliefs behind those debates in order to support better dialogue, decision making and action.
TABLE is for everyone with an interest in food. Acting as an interface between the worlds of research and practice, our work reflects and interrogates real and relevant food system debates. We are in constant dialogue with people working within the food system, including civil society, policy makers, advocates and practitioners.
TABLE puts together many resources such as explainers, blog posts, podcasts, letterbox series, other publications in their resource library, and a list of events and job opportunities. They have a page in Spanish as well. TABLE es MESA en América Latina.
A useful resource for busy people is their summary series which break down some of their explainers into a brief format. Short summaries are now available for the following explainers:
- What is regenerative agriculture?
- What is ecomodernism?
- What is feed food competition?
- What is the land sparing-land sharing continuum?
- What is agroecology?
- What is food sovereignty?
- Soy: food, feed and land use change
- Rewilding and its implications for agriculture
- Agricultural methane
- What is malnutrition?
- What is the nutrition transition?
- What is ultra-processed food? And why do people disagree about its utility as a concept?
TABLE was created in collaboration with the University of Oxford, building on the work of the Food Climate Research Network; the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), via the SLU Future Food platform; and Wageningen University & Research, and then expanded to include la Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Cornell CALS (USA).
Transparency | Diversity | Dynamism | Evidence-based |