Do you research food, food systems or a topic related to food?

TABLE & @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, have launched a new survey to learn what you want from food research, what you need from funders, & key topics.

Take the survey here: buff.ly/ROPrwTY

New survey to shape the food research agenda in the EU & UK!

Take it here: buff.ly/ROPrwTY

We want to hear from researchers what you need from research & funders to:

➡️ do more & better research
➡️ put knowledge into practice &
➡️ have more impact for food system change

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Do you research food, food systems or a topic related to food?

TABLE & @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, have launched a new survey to learn what you want from food research, what you need from funders, & key topics.

Take the survey here: buff.ly/ROPrwTY

TABLE is excited to welcome a new advisory board! We'll be sharing the new members one by one over the next two weeks.

Next up, a warm welcome to @mhairikb.bsky.social, Head of Food Futures at the @ffc-commission.bsky.social.

Learn more about Mhairi & our board here: buff.ly/w1FePFo

Had a fantastic time in Paris last week participating in a workshop for the FAO exploring how #ScienceCommunication can help facilitate transformation of agrifood systems. Looking forward to the upcoming issue paper!

TABLE's Rachel Headings participated in this workshop on agrifood systems transformation and we're very much looking forward to the paper coming out later this year!

How can policy and practice support capacity building for chefs & professional cooks for food system change?

Shiela Dillon from BBC Radio 4's #TheFoodProgramme chairs the final panel at #CityFoodSymposium2025

Professional cookery is the forgotten industry. So what would it take to integrate it with #foodsystems skills, knowledge, policy and thinking?

Excited to explore this and more today at #CityFoodSymposium2025!

Should the future of food systems be led from the bottom up?

We posed this vision to a diverse group of policymakers, community leaders, philanthropists, & academics.

We've published a report about what they agreed & disagreed on--& how to move toward food system transformation:
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150 Nobel & World Food prize laureates believe agricultural R&D developed by the Global North to boost food production in Global South is the answer to world hunger.

The power of Northern institutions to reproduce these broken narratives is something.

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Policy processes are designed to be complex, slow-moving and difficult so the status quo is maintained. Transparency is a lofty goal but in practice decisions are often made behind closed doors. To affect urgent, transformative change, prioritise being part of those decisions!

Synthesis and analysis of diverse works about power in the food system. 👇

"This wealth of meanings around food means it engages ‘power’ in the most diverse sense. It also means that the potential reach of the power(s) in question is universal - no-one remains untouched."

I enjoyed this @tabledebates.bsky.social podcast on how and why fossil fuels became so central to food systems, from production to distribution to cooking. But in terms of what comes next, I think it suffers from what I like to call the limits of "agroecological solutionism." A thread... 1/

Every year, 50+ of us monitor the state of food systems: The Food Systems Countdown to 2030 Initiative. Bottomline? Food system trends show some positive progress. Our third peer review pub and report are out! Find the paper here: shorturl.at/ZbyJ7 and the report here: shorturl.at/elfqu