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

Exciting insights emerged at the Wellcome-funded LEAP conference hosted by Future of Food.

From land restoration to frog meat sustainability, experts explored link between food, environment, & people. 🌱🐸🍽️ #FutureofFood

Read more: oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/last-leap…

🎉 Announcing our 2024 Essay Challenge winner 'De-Naturalizing the Poultry Plant' by 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.

tabledebates.org/blog/de-natura…

📢Fodder is back! 📢

In today's issue:

🌾 Prioritizing labor in food systems governance work
🍟 Determinants of obesity in Latin America
🦋 Tackling the climate-nature nexus
🍤 The role of seafood in UK food systems transformation

And more! mailchi.mp/tabledebates/f…

Just an hour left to get your ideas in! 💡

💡HESTIA Hackathon💡

Passionate about #sustainability ? Join us in Barcelona, 7-8 Sept 2024 and help us make a difference! 🌱🌍

Register by 1st July 2024: ikpbjce1f3c.typeform.com/to/tHegxDyH

Cost: £200/€230 (to cover venue and meals)

#HESTIA #Barcelona #Tech #OpenData #LCA

📢 TABLE is hiring! 📢

Our team is growing (again) and we're seeking 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/…

Can we eat enough white-tailed deer to restore forest ecosystems?

In episode 4, we speak with Bernd Blossey (Cornell CALS) who specializes in the management of invasive species and the restoration of disrupted ecological relationships.

Listen: tabledebates.org/podcast/episod…

What impedes sustainable cattle-raising in Mexico?

Elena Lazos Chavero (IISUNAM) draws on years of fieldwork in Veracruz to illuminate how livestock-raising has spread into the region’s indigenous territories, & the role it has played in recent history.

tabledebates.org/blog/challenge…

Research Assistant job available in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group OxPrimaryCareSci 🌟
Join us to trial interventions that encourage healthier & sustainable food purchases & consumption. You'll report to Dr Rachel Pechey who is a 10/10 human. Pls share!
tinyurl.com/SHFGjob

What is a 'natural' diet?

This week on Feed, Amy Styring (Oxford School of Archaeology) gives her take on whether we overestimate the role of meat in our past diets & what we can learn through a better understanding of how people produced & ate food in the past.

tabledebates.org/podcast/episod…

Absolutely delighted to have been awarded best oral presentation at #OXLEAP24 yesterday!

It was fantastic to finally attend the LEAP conference in person and hear about all the brilliant food systems and sustainability research happening in this space 🌱

🚜There's still time to apply to join us as a Farm Sustainability #Researcher ! 🚜

Work on an #international project and help reduce farm environmental impacts using digital tools.

Full-time position University of Oxford, apply by 01-May-2024. Details below! #Sustainability #Oxford 🌍

Did you ever wonder if the choices we make about farming and eating are based on solid evidence or just assumptions? Dr Harriet Bartlett 's latest research dives into this question, revealing surprising findings. Nature Food research briefing: 
nature.com/articles/s4301…

Fascinating + uplifting point from Dustin Benton / dbenton.bsky.social of Green Alliance showing how the energy system transformed in the last 15 years way better (for climate) than even hoped, so it could happen with food? #OxLEAP24 This projection didn’t happen! Price of renewables went down

We had such a great time at #OxLeap2024 yesterday! LEAP

Excellent presentation on efficiencies in diets over time from Pan He, ECR Board Chair at AFN Network+ - at the 2024 LEAP conference today.

Drivers in #foodsystems and examination of historical changes of efficiency along the gradient of socioeconomic development

Dr Harriet Bartlett (who lectures for our food systems, health and environment series) was interviewed on Farming Today about her new study published in Nature Food that evaluates different methods of pig-farming. Listen at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🐽Reconciling trade-offs in pig farming requires a change in mitigation approach🐽

Don't want to read the full paper? You're in luck! Here's our research briefing

nature.com/articles/s4301…

📢 Two days left to register 📢

Join TABLE, Alice Tunfjord, MFogde, & Matthew Kessler for a virtual discussion of SIANI's theory of change.

🗓️ 18 April at 2pm BST

More details here: tabledebates.org/events/ask-aut…