Dr Tara Garnett

Director, TABLE

taragarnett@tabledebates.org 

Tara is the Director of TABLE, a global platform for knowledge synthesis reflective, critical thinking, and inclusive stakeholder dialogue on priority concerns and contestations around the future of food. TABLE seeks to facilitate informed discussions about how the food system can become resilient, sustainable, just, and ultimately 'good'. Originally founded as a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the TABLE network has since expanded to include la Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

Tara's work centres on the interactions among food, climate, health and broader sustainability issues. She has a particular interest in livestock, a sector where many of these interests converge. She is also interested in how knowledge is communicated to and interpreted by policymakers, civil society organisations, and industry, and in the values that these different stakeholders bring to food problems and possible solutions.