Agriculture Archives — The Common Table

The Floating Gardens of Bangladesh

23. September 2026
7 minute read

As climate change pushes more of the world underwater, the pro-people, nature-based technology of floating agriculture practices in Bangladesh is a powerful model for rural resilience and empowerment, writes Vinod Koshti.

Revolution Not Evolution

19. August 2026
14 minute read

German supermarket giant Rewe's all-new timber construction supermarkets come complete with rooftop farms. Klaus Wiens, their head of construction, explains why reconfiguring the future of supermarkets, is the only way forward.

How to Feed the World Responsibly

18. May 2026
12 minute read

Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A conversation about sharing responsibility as well as direction.

Farmacy’s Manifesto

12. May 2026
3 minute read

A self-published handbook from a Notting Hill vegan restaurant might seem an unlikely vehicle for a radical food systems manifesto, but Farmacy's Manifesto on the Future of Food makes a compelling, if imperfect, case for regenerative agriculture and the urgent need to rethink how “we” feed ourselves.

Sowing Seeds of Hope in Ukraine

28. March 2026
10 minute read

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’

20. March 2026
5 minute read

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?

16. March 2026
4 minute read

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

2. March 2026
4 minute read

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

12. February 2026
12 minute read

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.