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Ken Giller

@kengiller.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor at Wageningen University and Research. Tropical farming systems - legume lover - nitrogen fixation - smallholder farming - SDSN www.n2africa.org

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Jess Fanzo @jessfanzo.bsky.social · 21h
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A senior FAO official on the price he paid for speaking out on Gaza
Benjamin Davis says the FAO forced him out because of his work on Gaza. In an interview, he discusses why he’s not staying silent and what others can do.
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out our advisory board member @kengiller.bsky.social's recorded plenary at the Roots to Regenerative Agriculture event last week, hosted by @aabiologists.bsky.social ⬇️
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Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Andrew McGuire @agronomistag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is also consistent across hundreds of studies: when a mixture gives the best results, it's a non-legume+legume. Here, oilseed+legume gave best results.
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Andrew McGuire @agronomistag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hands of Poker demonstrate this - which one wins?
Image showing two poker hands, one diverse (Diversity), the other a strait (Composition).
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 14/09/2026
📝 New article on Our World in Data: Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming? One of the most common questions we’re asked about food systems is whether organic farming is better for the environment than conventional methods.
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How do we get at honest & nature-inclusive policy measure for livestock farming in the Netherlands? Nitrogen has been at the centre of ongoing tensions in Dutch agricultural policy. Mirjam Schoonhoven-Speijer explores the history of the tensions & some proposed solutions. ➡️ buff.ly/xXHCrQI
A flyer for the TABLE Essay "How to get out of deep sh*t: the need for honest and nature-inclusive policy measures for livestock farming in the Netherlands" by Mirjam Schoonhoven-Speijer. The background image is piles of manure on a field, photo by Lorna Pauli via Pexels.
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Andrew McGuire @agronomistag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"We need to understand nature is always self-organizing, self-regulating, self-healing." - Gabe Brown Pop ecology is the bread and butter of regenerative agriculture. Don't fall for it. yonearth.org/podcast/epis... csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/
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How Pop Ecology Misleads Agriculture
Romanticized “pop ecology” oversimplifies nature and leads to costly mistakes in real-world crop management.
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Andrew McGuire @agronomistag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Everything is connected" is true is the most trivial sense, but not in ways that matter. It's a romanticized nature-slogan that doesn't identify mechanisms or magnitudes of effects. Which connections matter for your field? Pop ecology won't tell you. csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/
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How Pop Ecology Misleads Agriculture
Romanticized “pop ecology” oversimplifies nature and leads to costly mistakes in real-world crop management.
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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.
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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 · 11/06/2026
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 · 28/05/2026
China produces roughly half the world's pork. Achieving this required swine genetics from multiple continents, feed from Brazil, and a disease outbreak that wiped out hundreds of millions of animals. This episode asks how they did it, and what that cost: buff.ly/oZxy2Ou #Feeding1in6
A flyer for the TABLE podcast series "Feeding 1 in 6: China and the Future of Food" Episode 2 “Vertical Pork” with a red background and white and black pig icons creating a tower on the left side of the card.
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Jess Fanzo @jessfanzo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Absolutely tragic. New York Times article on the unfolding catastrophe in Somalia due to worldwide wars and declines in humanitarian aid. “This is the era of indifference.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
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Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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 · 22/04/2026
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
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🥦 Is eating more plants in the future actually a choice? 🥦 @paulbehrens.bsky.social breaks down how the plant-based future will arrive in this #FoodTakes video with @rebelwrit.bsky.social 🎥 Filmed at @britishecologicalsociety.org @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
✨ 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.
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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.
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The International Legume Society @legumesociety.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New free webinar: Legumes in the EU’s R&I landscape Policy and programme updates, with Francisco Castro Alves youtu.be/ZiWQgItjsDo
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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.
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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.
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Preet Lidder @lidderpr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution to strengthen the work of the UN system
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a landmark resolution to strengthen how UN mandates - the decisions taken by Member States that guide the Organisation’s work - are created, impl...
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 28/03/2026
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-...
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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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The International Legume Society @legumesociety.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New free webinar next week: "The legacy of N2Africa: Putting Nitrogen Fixation to Work for Smallholder Farmers in Africa", with Ken Giller. All details on our web page: www.legumesociety.org/ils-webinars...
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Do we need smaller solutions? 🫘 In #FoodTakes 🥦 Episode 19, Jing Zhang of @ecioxford.bsky.social explains how beans might be the hero we all need on this #WorldPulsesDay! Check out more resources on beans here: mailchi.mp/tabledebates...
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"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.”
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Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What can serious games teach us about food systems, research, & collaboration? In a TABLE essay, @federicoandreotti.bsky.social provides an overview of serious games around farming & food systems, and he introduces the new games library, now available on TABLE's website! Read more: buff.ly/twzHol0
A flyer for the TABLE essay "Games at TABLE: A new platform for serious games" by Federico Andreotti. There are illustrations of game pieces and cards and a photo of people playing a game at a table in the background.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/07/2025
🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are delighted have Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social give a talk at our November meeting on 'Roots to RegenAg'. It'll be great to hear his perspective on the 'Perils of Populism and Precarious Promises'! Please plan to submit an abstract and register from June! cvent.me/0Zo9ae
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Can we have more honest conversations about the future of food and agriculture? In the latest episode of the Feed Podcast, @kengiller.bsky.social discusses the dangers of populist narratives that oversimplify agricultural challenges & more. Listen here: www.tabledebates.org/podcast/epis...
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can we have more honest conversations about the future of food and agriculture? In the latest episode of the Feed Podcast, @kengiller.bsky.social discusses the dangers of populist narratives that oversimplify agricultural challenges & more. Listen here: buff.ly/MNEjnYZ
A flyer for episode 83 of the Feed Podcast with quote from Ken Giller: "We want to be clear in our messaging. But what that tends to do is that it hides all of the nuance in the debates, and we come out with sort of black and white answers. And of course, science isn't about yes or no. Science is about engaging with complexity, and I think particularly in the area of food systems. I mean, it's very big, big term. But if take it down to the agricultural end, the production end, where I do most of my work, then we tend to be talking about value judgments about farming. We wrote this paper about conventional agriculture. What's conventional agriculture? It's become a weaponized term where people use it to show the alternative. They're promoting their alternative. It's regenerative, it's organic, it's agroecological."
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Can we have more honest conversations about the future of food and agriculture? In the latest episode of the Feed Podcast, @kengiller.bsky.social discusses the dangers of populist narratives that oversimplify agricultural challenges & more. Listen here: www.tabledebates.org/podcast/epis...
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On this week's episode of Solving for Climate, we talk with @hausfath.bsky.social about the world of carbon removals. And some other stuff too: he's worked on a lot! open.spotify.com/episode/55Wu...
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Snow on Mam Tor today
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🇺🇦 paul q. brussée @paulbrussee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
„De preparaten worden steeds vaker aanbevolen voor uitgeputte bodems in Afrika en Azië. Kleine boeren (…) worden blij gemaakt met een dooie mus en als hun oogst mislukt, wacht de honger.” @kengiller.bsky.social @joostvk.bsky.social @nrcwetenschap.bsky.social #landbouw www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
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Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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
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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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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
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Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Don’t look away Very inspiring - Jan Pronk discussing with Ellen Magnus her book “Kijk Niet Weg” Yes we can have an influence on international development
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Ken Giller @kengiller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great to see my book is still useful🥸 - I guess the citation is accurate 🤔?
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