Feed: a food systems podcast
Episodes
The future of food retail, made simple
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most industries have a clear roadmap for transformation. The power sector goes renewable. Cars go electric. But food and agriculture? The world’s mo...
Can we eat better without paying more?
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of tell people what to eat, what if we changed what food costs? With Jörgen Larsson (researcher from Chalmers University), we explore a cost-...
A three course meal in 2050
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We invite you to a three course meal in 2050, where climate breakdown has reshaped what and how we eat. Each of the courses is designed to provoke que...
Hunger on our doorstop (Part 2)
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hunger on our Doorstep is a two part podcast about food poverty in the UK. It explores the issues and potential solutions through the eyes of three fo...
Can we change what a society eats? (with Sarah Lake)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if changing what we eat wasn’t about persuasion, but about reshaping everyday food choices? With Sarah Lake, CEO of Tilt Collective, we explore...
Why food needs a systems approach (with Corinna Hawkes)
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do Yorkshire beaches, Sierra Leone’s new food strategy, and New York City school lunches have in common? For Corinna Hawkes, they all shaped he...
Hunger on our doorstep (Part 1)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Hunger on our Doorstep" is a two part podcast about food poverty in the UK. It explores the issues and potential solutions through the eyes...
What is food solutionism? And why does it limit us
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we drawn to simple fixes for the complex challenge of feeding the world sustainably? Researchers Colin Sage (formerly Cork University) and Gar...
Food Systems, Rice and Power in Southeast Asia (with Thin Lei Win)
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does Myanmar, often called the "rice bowl of Southeast Asia," continue to struggle with high rates of malnutrition? In this episode, jou...
Is this the future of food? (with Michael Grunwald)
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can humanity feed nearly 10 billion people without frying the planet? That question is at the heart of journalist Michael Grunwald’s provocative arg...
Perils of Populism and Precarious Promise of Regenerative Agriculture (with Ken Giller)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can we have more honest conversations about the future of food and agriculture? That’s the plea from Ken Giller, recently retired professor at Wagen...
TikTok masculinity and the Tradwife (with Feminist Food Journal)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What else should we consider when shifting to natural, whole foods—beyond just their health benefits? Feminist Food Journal co-founders Isabela Bonn...
From horses to AI: how fossil fuels shaped agriculture (with Jennifer Clapp)
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the battle over who controls and owns agricultural data one of the most important—and least discussed—fights in 21st-century farming? In this c...
Is a Fossil Fuel Free Food System Possible? (Live recording at ORFC)
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We gathered in Oxford to ask: Is a fossil free food system possible? 3 panelists: a farmer, an economist and biodiversity researcher, shared their exp...
7. Transitioning to fossil free food
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would a food system free of fossil fuels look like by 2050? What insights surprised the experts featured in this series? And what trade-offs must...
6. Fossil fuels in our kitchens
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fossil fuels are hiding in plain sight in our kitchens—powering stoves and cooling refrigerators, plus they're fueling supply chains. They shap...
5. Ultra-processed foods, plastics, transport
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about the future of food, we usually picture what's growing in the fields or what's on our dinner plates. But maybe we should p...
Fossil fuels, food, and Columbus’s wicked legacy (with Raj Patel)
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the hidden costs of our current food system and its deep reliance on fossil fuels, a system that burdens citizens with financial, health and ...
4. Farm machinery, precision agriculture, big data
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fossil fuels are woven into nearly every aspect of modern agriculture - from powering farm machinery to creating plastics and supporting data-driven t...
3. Do we need fossil agrochemicals to feed the world?
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2020, over 120 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilizer have been produced annually—a number set to rise by 50% by 2050. It’s easy to assume th...
2. The rise of fossil fuels in our food
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did fossil fuels become so embedded in our food systems? We trace this journey from the industrial extraction of guano, through the game-changing ...
1. There's fossil fuels in our food?!
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“For many of us, how fossil fuels are integrated across the food chain is highly invisible.” When we bite into a juicy apple, barrels of crud...
Introducing Fuel to Fork
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we bite into a juicy apple, barrels of crude oil and natural gas cylinders might not spring to mind. But fossil fuels are the hidden ingredient b...
What biodiversity do you care about?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are food systems allies or enemies in the fight to save biodiversity? With our planet facing a biodiversity crisis, the answer depends on who you ask ...
Animal welfare and ethics (with Tamsin Blaxter)
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do philosophers, animal welfare scientists, and farmers differ in their understanding of what a good future for farmed animals looks like? TABLE r...
Valuing nature in our economies (with Adan Martinez Cruz)
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental economist Adan L. Martinez-Cruz (Senior Lecturer at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), argues that markets are a fundamen...
There is no master metric for biodiversity (with Ville Lähde)
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Philosopher and environmental researcher Ville Lähde (with the Finnish BIOS Research Unit) argues that we need to understand biodiversity differently...
Nature knows best: Naturalness in the Ultra-Processed Foods Debate
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that more natural food – food which hasn’t been transformed by human and industrial intervention – is best for us is a powerful one. Ps...
Presenting "Less And Better?: Ep 1: Its Complicated"
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like one of the biggest questions of our time: what do we do about meat? Rather than choosing either extreme – business as usual, or ruling...
Women Scientists from Global South on Food Security (Part 3)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
500 scientists from 60 countries gathered at the 5th Global Food Security Conference in Leuven, Belgium. Instead of saying, "you had to be there,...
Economics of Food System Transformation (Part 2)
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
500 scientists from 60 countries gathered at the 5th Global Food Security Conference in Leuven, Belgium. Instead of saying, "you had to be there,...
Is Global Food Security a Solvable Puzzle? (Part 1)
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
500 scientists from 60 countries gathered at the 5th Global Food Security Conference in Leuven, Belgium. Instead of saying, "you had to be there,...
Is cultivated "meat" unnatural? Is meat today natural? (with Cor van der Weele)
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While many wonder about the technological hurdles preventing cultivated meat from entering commercial markets, fewer ask a more basic question: will p...
Does CRISPR make our food unnatural? (with Lauren Crossland-Marr)
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If more and more gene-edited foods become common on our plates, is that a sign of a promising or worrying food future? With Dr. Lauren Crossland-Mar...
What's a natural diet? (with Richard Tellström)
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What influences the meals we enjoy today? Meal historian and cultural researcher Richard Tellström from Stockholm University suggests that the surrou...
What's a natural diet? (with Amy Styring)
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Around 6000 years ago in Northwest Europe, our ancestors transitioned from hunter-gatherer societies to sedentary farming. How did their diets change ...
Can we eat enough white-tailed deer to restore forest ecosystems?
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to eat enough white-tailed deer to keep their populations low enough to restore ecosystems? We posed this question to Bernd Blossey, pr...
Eating invasive crayfish - a solution to our ecological mess?
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are invasive species natural? If we introduced them, do we have some responsibility to manage them? What if we could reduce their numbers through the ...
Grasshoppers - agricultural pest or sustainable food?
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if we shifted our perspective from seeing some animal species as a problem to seeing them as an abundant and tasty source of food? Over the next ...
Should food systems be more natural?
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Is a microbe less natural than a cow?” This season we ask scientists, farmers, technologists and philosophers about how natural our food systems ...
Sofia Wilhelmsson on pig transport and human-animal relations (rebroadcast)
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sofia Wilhelmsson researches a very specific and stressful time for farmed pigs: the loading and transport of pigs on their way to slaughter. She no...
What is rewilding? (rebroadcast)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where nature reclaims its place in the landscape. What would that mean for food systems? Walter Fraanje joins Feed co-hosts to talk ...
Neena Prasad on the power of ultra-processed foods
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People across the world are consuming more ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Will Latin American countries and elsewhere follow the path of the US and the...
Jessica Duncan on COP28 and who shapes food policy
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Food systems are finally getting more attention at global climate conversations. But who is at the table shaping our food futures? We caught up with...
Presenting A CRISPR Bite: Wine
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is CRISPR the solution to controlling the pest plaguing California’s wine industry? In this episode of A CRISPR Bite, we take you to a lab where res...
Will you join the insect revolution?
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are over 2,000 types of insects that people eat across the world. Some of these species could have the potential to be cultivated at scale using...
Narrowing the yield gap in Sub-Saharan Africa
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The yield gap refers to the difference between the potential agricultural yield that could be achieved under ideal conditions and the actual yield tha...
Presenting M4F: Ep8. Looking back, looking forward
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Presenting the Meat: the four futures series final episode.--Over the last few months, we explored what the future of meat and livestock could look li...
Presenting M4F: Ep7. Health, biodiversity, animal ethics
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue featuring the Meat: the four futures series with episode 7.--We've heard four distinct visions for the future of meat and livestock. ...
Presenting M4F: Ep6. Plant based
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue featuring the Meat: the four futures series with our fourth and final exploration of four different futures for meat - Plant based no meat...
Presenting M4F: Ep5. Less meat
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue featuring the Meat: the four futures series with our third exploration of four different futures for meat - Less meat.--What if we had a m...
Presenting M4F: Ep4. Alternative "meat"
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue featuring the Meat: the four futures series with our second exploration of four different futures for meat - Alternative "meat"....
Presenting M4F: Ep3. Efficient meat
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue featuring the Meat: the four futures series with our first exploration of four different futures for meat - Efficient meat 2.0.--Today we ...
Presenting M4F: Ep2. A complicated relationship with meat
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are presenting the second episode in the Meat: the four futures series.What are your first thoughts when you see a piece of steak on a plate ...
Presenting M4F: Ep1. Meat the four futures
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here we present the first episode of a podcast that Feed co-host Matthew Kessler has been creating with TABLE and the SLU Future Food over the last ye...
What did we learn about power? (with Tara Garnett and Sigrid Wertheim-Heck)
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For our last episode of the second season of Feed, we speak with TABLE director Tara Garnett of the University of Oxford, and TABLE strategic director...
Food in prisons (with Lucy Vincent and Linda Kjær Minke)
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As this season on power in the food system comes to a close, we wanted to focus on how food is consumed in institutions - places where people typicall...
Ken Giller on the Food Security Conundrum (rebroadcast)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does agricultural research often fall short of addressing food insecurity challenges in sub-Saharan Africa? In this conversation with Ken Giller, ...
Philip McMichael on the "Corporate Food Regime"
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the corporate food regime? And are we still living in it? We put these questions to our guest Phliip McMichael, emeritus professor at Cornell ...
Jason Clay on "Building and flying the plane as we go"
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Clay is the Executive Director of the Markets Institute at World Wildlife Fund. He comes with decades of unique experiences and a big picture vi...
Sofia Wilhelmsson on "Pig transport and human-animal relations"
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sofia Wilhelmmson recently completed her PhD from in 2022 from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in the department of Animal Environme...
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin on "the power of regenerative movements"
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is the founder and director the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance. He moved to the US from Guatemala in the 1990s. In our ...
Jeremy Brice on "Investment, Power and Protein in sub-Saharan Africa"
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who is investing in the food system and what are they investing in? What should the future of food, specifically protein, look like in sub-Saharan Afr...
Blain Snipstal on "Battling plantation agriculture today"
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Blain Snipstal, former youth advocate for La Via Campesina, has thought a lot about power. We talk about how Blain sees the legacy of the plantation m...
Vincent Ricciardi on Challenging Assumptions (rebroadcast)
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our discussion, data scientist Vincent "Vinny" Ricciardi challenges the assumptions and evidence that are built into food systems debates...
What is rewilding? (with Walter Fraanje)
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TABLE staff member Walter Fraanje joins Feed co-hosts to talk about his new publication, "Rewilding and its implications for agriculture" co...
Giuliana Furci on "Without fungi we wouldn't have food"
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is not a typical conversation for Feed. We're still talking about food systems, and we're still talking about power, but we're foc...
Joachim von Braun on an 'IP for Food'
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joachim von Braun, former Chair of the Scientific Group for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, lays out the importance of an inclusive process and multi...
Busiso Moyo on the Right to Food
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food” is written in the South African constitution. But how is that implemented, and who is r...
Jayson Lusk on Markets and Consumer Power
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Agricultural economist Jayson Lusk puts forward a vision of how science, technology and innovation are what we need for a sustainable...
Parsing Grindadráp (with Tamsin Blaxter)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tamsin Blaxter, researcher and writer at TABLE, joins Feed co-hosts to talk about her forthcoming publication: "Parsing Grindadráp". Grinda...
What is Ecomodernism? (with Helen Breewood)
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this mini-episode, TABLE staff member Helen Breewood joins Feed co-hosts to talk about her new publication, "What is ecomodernism?" The e...
Elena Lazos Chavero on Scale, Seeds and Sovereignty (rebroadcast)
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with social anthropologist Elena Lazos Chavero (National University of Mexico), we discuss how her research interests were formed ...
Jennifer Clapp on Commodifying Food (rebroadcast)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Has the increasing commodification of food and financialization of the food system left us more vulnerable to food crises? We speak with Jennifer Clap...
An open-ended discussion on power in the food system
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On 8 December 2021, TABLE hosted an open-ended discussion about power in the food system with representatives from civil society, academia, media and ...
Herman Brouwer and Joost Guijt on Power in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore the role of power in multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) with two people who are no strangers to this topic - Herman Brouw...
Channa Prakash on GMs, Golden Rice, and the Green Revolution
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode on power in the food system, we speak with Dr Channa Prakash, professor of crop genetics, biotechnology and genomics at Tuskegee ...
Julie Guthman on Capital, Tech and Alternative Food
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our second conversation exploring power in the food system, we speak with Julie Guthman, professor and food geographer at UC Santa Cruz. We ask her...
Phil Howard on Corporate Consolidation
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first Feed episode about power we speak with Phil Howard, author of Concentration and Power in the Food System, a book that asks "who cont...
Introducing Season Two: Power in the food system
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off our second season introducing our new theme power in the food system. Across the season we’ll speak with researchers, farmers, activists...
Food systems investors on COP (part 2)
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it actually look like to influence large companies to change their practices? In this conversation with shareholder advocates Annalisa Tariz...
Why isn’t food on the COP agenda? (part 1)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why was food absent from the climate agenda in COP-26, the global gathering that took place in Scotland in November 2021? In this bonus episode, we sp...
Pat Mooney and Charles Godfray debate the future of food systems
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just three decades ago, the world looked very different: smartphones wouldn't appear for another 15 years, and in the world of food, the organic ...
What scale for the food system?
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our first season, we share our main findings and reflections from the past 14 conversations we had about scale in food systems...
Elin Röös, Johan Karlsson and Robin Harder on "Values in Food Systems Models"
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation today with three researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Elin Röös, Robin Harder and Johan Karlsson), ...
Felipe Roa-Clavijo on "Feeding the village, nation, or world"
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with Felipe Roa-Clavijo (author of The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia: Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the Sta...
Sophia Murphy on "Getting the global rules right"
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with Sophia Murphy (Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy [IATP]), we talk about the importance of ...
Klara Fischer on why "Technology is not scale-neutral"
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our discussion with Klara Fischer (associate professor in rural development at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), we discuss how differe...
Vincent Ricciardi on Challenging Assumptions
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our discussion, data scientist Vincent "Vinny" Ricciardi challenges the assumptions and evidence that are built into food systems debates...
Jessica Duncan on "We eat, drink and breathe food policy"
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with rural sociologist Jessica Duncan (Wageningen U), we talk about dialogue and participation in food policy, why we shouldn’t ...
Brent Loken on "It's not so simple"
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can shifting towards a planet-based diet reduce biodiversity loss? In our conversation with Brent Loken, Global Food Lead Scientist, at the WWF, w...
Elena Lazos Chavero on Scale, Seeds and Sovereignty
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our conversation with social anthropologist Elena Lazos Chavero (National University of Mexico), we discuss how her research interests were formed ...
Jamie Lorimer on the Probiotic Planet
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with environmental geographer Jamie Lorimer, we discuss different ways of conceptualizing scale; how ideas of scalability, global...
Jennifer Clapp on Commodifying Food
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Has the increasing commodification of food and financialization of the food system left us more vulnerable to food crises? We speak with Jennifer Clap...
Sahil Shah on Scaling Seaweed
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What role can seaweed and different technologies play in building a resilient food system? What are the potential tradeoffs when scaling these technol...
Lauren Baker on Connecting Local and Global Scale to Place
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do people and organisations work to transform the food system? Are there effective strategies to connect local movements across the globe? And is ...
Rob Bailey on Global Food Trade Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you thought about the system of trade that brings food to your market or grocery store? Do you wonder if that system of global food trade, where ...
Ken Giller on the Food Security Conundrum
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why does agricultural research often fall short of addressing food insecurity challenges in sub-Saharan Africa? In this conversation with Ken Giller, ...
Introducing: Feed, a food system podcast (with Tara Garnett)
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Feed, a food system podcast by TABLE. Co-hosts Matthew Kessler and Samara Brock tell you what you can expect when you tune in, and Tara Ga...