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Ken Giller

@kengiller.bsky.social

Emeritus Professor at Wageningen University and Research. Tropical farming systems - legume lover - nitrogen fixation - smallholder farming - SDSN https://www.n2africa.org

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TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 3d ago

What can we learn from China on food security? TABLE's Matthew Kessler wrote a piece for @devex.com, reflecting on our latest podcast #Feeding1in6 He talks political will, tradeoffs & the sheer speed at which the nation has been able to shift from famine to feeding so many people.

What can we learn from China’s approach to food security?

Opinion: From famine to feast — what can the development sector take away and replicate or reject from China’s food systems transformation?

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TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today China produces 76 million tonnes of seafood a year, at a mounting environmental cost. This episode follows the small farms & the global infrastructure that connects them, & asks what happens when a government tries to course correct a system it deliberately set loose. buff.ly/VSKxGoe

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TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What are we getting wrong about soy? April is National Soy Month in the US & we at TABLE are using as an excuse to examine 🔍 the various ideas we have about soy & the role it plays in our food system. Check out our soy newsletter: buff.ly/549AzVZ

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TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How should we value nature in our food systems? Today on #EarthDay, as we reflect on the state of our planet, it's worth revisiting one of our recent explainers on the economics of nature and how we currently (and could) value nature in our food systems. Find the explainer here: buff.ly/MSJoLD7

A flyer for the TABLE Explainer "Making Nature Count: How should we value nature in our food systems?" by Henry Leveson-Gower
TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨ THIS THURSDAY ✨ Our next TABLE webinar will focus on Bolivia, one of the fastest-changing soy frontiers in the region, & contrast it with Brazil, a place that is often synonymous with soy production. Join us for the discussion on 16 April: buff.ly/QeNVSX7

A flyer for the TABLE webinar event “Latin America’s Soy Frontier: Is Bolivia the next Brazil?” On 16 April 2026 from 14:00-15:30 BST. Join us for a webinar with Matt Abel and Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas. The background is a watercolour painting of a Bolivian mountain and plans landscape.
TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Soy looks different depending on where you sit. For Ryan Britt, who's farming 2,000 hectares in Missouri, it's the crop that reliably pays the bills. In 2025, the news cycle suddenly cared very much about a crop & a region it typically ignores. Our latest Feed Podcast episode: buff.ly/VKCiSxy

TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Is continuing soy expansion in Latin America inevitable? Our latest TABLE webinar will focus on Bolivia, one of the fastest-changing soy frontiers in the region, & contrast it with Brazil, a place that is often synonymous with soy production. Join us for the discussion on 16 April: buff.ly/QeNVSX7

A flyer for the TABLE webinar event “Latin America’s Soy Frontier: Is Bolivia the next Brazil?” On 16 April 2026 from 14:00-15:30 BST. Join us for a webinar with Matt Abel and Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas. The background is a watercolour painting of a Bolivian mountain and plans landscape.
TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Is continuing soy expansion in Latin America inevitable? Our latest TABLE webinar will focus on Bolivia, one of the fastest-changing soy frontiers in the region, & contrast it with Brazil, a place that is often synonymous with soy production. Join us for the discussion on 16 April: buff.ly/QeNVSX7

A flyer for the TABLE webinar event “Latin America’s Soy Frontier: Is Bolivia the next Brazil?” On 16 April 2026 from 14:00-15:30 BST. Join us for a webinar with Matt Abel and Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas. The background is a watercolour painting of a Bolivian mountain and plans landscape.
TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Is continuing soy expansion in Latin America inevitable? Our latest TABLE webinar will focus on Bolivia, one of the fastest-changing soy frontiers in the region, & contrast it with Brazil, a place that is often synonymous with soy production. Join us for the discussion on 16 April: buff.ly/QeNVSX7

A flyer for the TABLE webinar event “Latin America’s Soy Frontier: Is Bolivia the next Brazil?” On 16 April 2026 from 14:00-15:30 BST. Join us for a webinar with Matt Abel and Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas. The background is a watercolour painting of a Bolivian mountain and plans landscape.
Zeteo@zeteo.com · 4mo ago

This Week in Palestine: Israeli Forces Allegedly Torture Gaza Toddler to Force His Father to Confess Zeteo's weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies. Read now: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

This Week in Palestine: Israeli Forces Allegedly Torture Gaza Toddler to Force His Father to Confess

Zeteo's weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies.

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TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Is grass-fed beef better for the climate?" asked The New York Times earlier this week. TABLE's director Tara Garnett weighed in: "The bulk of food-related emissions comes from a relatively small number of people eating quite a lot of meat . . ." Read the full piece here: buff.ly/1UBGx2Y

A quote by Tara Garnett, TABLE's director, in the New York Times: "The bulk of food-related emissions comes from a relatively small number of people eating quite a lot of meat. The biggest benefit to the climate . . . It’s going to come from the majority of people cutting back on their meat consumption.”
TABLE@tabledebates.bsky.social · last yr.

This week in our newsletter Fodder: 🦞 Out of sight, out of mind: The invisibility of seafood 🎣 The multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries 🌊 Sea farming and feminist blue humanities 🍣 Norwegian salmon undermines food security in West Africa And more: mailchi.mp/tabledebates...

Photo of fish farms. Credit Quang Nguyen Vinh via Pexels.
Ken Giller@kengiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

Joost van Kasteren in the NRC explains that two multinationals Corteva and Syngenta are selling microbial inoculants to farmers that don't match their claims that they fix nitrogen from the air with cereals and other non-legume crops. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/... @w-u-r.bsky.social

Van tarwe kun je geen erwten maken, al beloven agromultinationals van wel

Landbouw: Boeren geven grote bedragen uit aan biologische preparaten die een alternatief zouden vormen voor kunstmest. Maar het werkt niet, zeggen kritische experts.

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