Policy Archives — The Common Table

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?

Transparent Tuna

2. October 2025
11 minute read

William Harris talks to Cynthia Asaf of Pacifical about using digital traceability to improve transparency in the Pacific tuna supply chain and why it's a game-changer for the fishing industry.

A Game of Monopoly

30. May 2025
10 minute read

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.

Gastronativism: Us & Them

1. February 2025
12 minute read

Food Studies professor Fabio Parasecoli on gastronativism, the "ideological use of food in politics to advance ideas about who belongs to a community". A conversation about "us", "them", food, politics, and systemic thinking.

The Fairr Sharers

9. December 2023
19 minute read

The FAIRR Initiative's investor members manage over 70 trillion USD in assets. We asked Sajeev Mohankumar and Max Boucher, co-authors of their first "Regenerative Agriculture Report" how investors can be equipped to demand change.

This Bite Will Cost You

18. January 2023
10 minute read

Priya Mani attends a MAD Monday panel talk to hear experts discuss how the current food price crisis is manifesting in the food chains of Northern Europe and Denmark in particular.

A Culture of Resilience

18. October 2022
10 minute read

Anthropologist Lindsey Foltz looks at food preservation practices in Bulgaria in the context of food sovereignty and finds a lot to learn about developing and preserving resilient food systems.

Foraging As Resistance

19. March 2022
13 minute read

Artist film-maker Jumana Manna's new film "Foragers" is about the criminalisation of herb-picking culture in Palestine and Israel. An exclusive interview for The Common Table by Sophia Hoffinger.

Soil and People

14. March 2022
6 minute read

A consortium of collectives including architects, urbanists and ecologists have a strategy to make Luxemburg carbon-negative by 2050 by changing diets and land-use practices.