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New Foodsource building block: Methane and the sustainability of ruminant livestock This new building block explores the question of how different ways of reporting the climate impact of methane relate to broader debates about the sustainability of ruminant livestock.

New blog post: RIP the FCRN and long live Table - In this blog post, the FCRN’s director Tara Garnett introduces Table, a new collaboration between the University of Oxford, Wageningen University and Research and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, which will launch later this year. Table will build on and ultimately replace the FCRN. Tara will remain actively involved as one of Table's Research Directors.

We are in the process of recruiting a strategic coordinator and fundraising director to help take our collaboration forward.

In Fodder this week: Coconut oil threatens a much higher number of species than palm oil per million tonnes of oil produced; the Good Food Institute has launched a collaborative research directory on alternative proteins; and FCRN member David Willer argues that bivalve shellfish could offer a low-impact protein source for nearly a billion people.

Featured publication: Food refrigeration: What is the contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and how might emissions be reduced? This 2007 FCRN paper focuses on food refrigeration: what its environmental impacts are, how it has come to be so essential to the way we manage our food system, our practical and cultural dependence on this technology, and what we might be able to do to reduce its associated greenhouse gas emissions.