Sowing Seeds of Hope in Ukraine
We asked Yuliya Stefanyuk, the World Central Kitchen's Response Director in Ukraine, about WCK's new project distributing of seeds to help those affected by the war grow their own food and rebuild resilience.
Being Human in the ‘House that Pigs built’
Cooking Sections' new exhibition about intensive pig farming at Denmark's MAPS Museum doesn't just reveal what industrial farming does to a landscape and its people, it also invites them to fight back.
SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?
The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal. Its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But is it enough to save our soils and ourselves?
The Last Harvest
Dr Debal Deb and The Last Harvest is a documentary about one man's decades-long battle to rescue India's indigenous rice diversity from oblivion. Journalist Dan Saladino visits Basudha Farm in Odisha, to learn about how he is building a sustainable legacy.
The Future is Ancestral
An agricultural collective called Arca Tierra supplies 50 city restaurants as well as locals with fresh food by reviving ancestral agriculture practices in the Chinampas wetlands near Mexico City. The Common Table spoke to the farm coordinator Sebastián Herrera, about finding what was lost.
The Honey Merchant
Diego Contreras is a biologist and honey expert from the uniquely biodiverse region of Oaxaca. His project Nunduve aims to educate consumers about honey's origins and environmental issues, rather than just its flavours and uses.
A Taste for Microplastics
Microplastic pollution expert Dr Sherri Mason talks to The Common Table about the pervasive presence of tiny plastic particles within the planet’s ecosystems and why we are being encouraged to keep adding more, not less, of them to our food and soils.
A Game of Monopoly
We talk to Canadian political economist Jennifer Clapp about her latest book, “Titans of Industrial Agriculture” and the evolution of an extreme concentration of power that has allowed 12 companies to control most of the world's food production.
Ancient Grains & Other Myths
Fabio Aranzulla and Luca Cinquemani, are an artistic duo going by the name of Aterraterra. Their work intersects art and agricultural practices, questioning accepted narratives within agriculture and food cultures.
