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Rach Headings @rachheadings.bsky.social · 7d

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 @tabledebates.bsky.social · 9d

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!

Preet Lidder @lidderpr.bsky.social · 9d

Just wrapped up an insightful workshop we co-organized with the @sciencecouncil.bsky.social on science communication for agrifood systems transformation. Stay tuned for our upcoming joint issue paper later this year! @fao.org @carbonbrief.org @tabledebates.bsky.social @thinink.bsky.social

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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 9d

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!

Preet Lidder @lidderpr.bsky.social · 9d

Just wrapped up an insightful workshop we co-organized with the @sciencecouncil.bsky.social on science communication for agrifood systems transformation. Stay tuned for our upcoming joint issue paper later this year! @fao.org @carbonbrief.org @tabledebates.bsky.social @thinink.bsky.social

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Rach Headings @rachheadings.bsky.social · May 15

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

Rach Headings @rachheadings.bsky.social · May 15

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Rach Headings @rachheadings.bsky.social · May 15

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!

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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · Mar 19

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:
buff.ly/3EDqfUk

A sketch brainstormed by TABLE and illustrated by Roberta Aita representing a Bottom-up vision for the future of food.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Jan 14

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.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe

More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production

www.theguardian.com

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Rach Headings @rachheadings.bsky.social · Jan 14

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!

Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · Jan 14

How did sugar taxes get passed? Simple, just by keeping them secret until the budget and not telling industry to they wouldn't lobby! The result? Businesses easily reformulated drinks with less sugar and large health benefits

A lesson for Labour and regulation

From www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...

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Rach Headings @rachheadings.bsky.social · Jan 14

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."

TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · Dec 23

Over the course of our working theme on power in the food system, we heard many definitions & opinions of what power is and how it influences the food we eat.

We've boiled down our findings into a new summary.

Check out this new report on power here: tabledebates.org/publication/...

A flyer for The Power Project report from TABLE by Ruth Mattock. Background photo is a birds eye view of a field and electrical pylon by Max Bottinger via Unsplash.

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Garrett Broad @garrettbroad.bsky.social · Jan 2

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/

TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · Jan 2

If your #NewYearsResolution is to listen to more podcasts, we've got you covered! 🎧

#FueltoFork tackles the big questions around the role that fossil fuels play in our food system.

🍽️ Think you know what's on your plate? Think again.

Listen here: tabledebates.org/fueltofork

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Jess Fanzo @jessfanzo.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

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