Transformation of business
Follow the food: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
The Bassetti Foundation is pleased to announce its involvement in the Utrecht University โ๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐: ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌโ Pathways to Sustainability Signature Project. The project aims to challenge the globalized, unsustainable and unfair agri-food system (especially for smallholders and subsistence farmers) by studying and enhancing the potential of Geographical Indications ... Follow the food: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
2025 3min
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Lund University Research on Food Sharing
On 27 March 2025, I and Mirjam Scholtens (Municipality of Utrecht) took a group of researchers from Lund University for a guided tour of the Utrecht city garden Food For Good and its neighbouring Eilandsteede city farm. As readers might know, Food For Good is a regular port of call for university groups from across ... Lund University Research on Food Sharing
2025 3min
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Place Based Circular Society Innovations
In October of 2024, I was invited to join the Advisory Board and attend the ย launch of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Place-based circular society innovations (CSI) in Manchester, UK. I was excited to join, not only because long term friend of the Bassetti Foundation Sally Randles is part of ... Place Based Circular Society Innovations
2025 3min
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Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese
Follow the Foodโs fourth and final seminar took place on January 22nd bringing us full circle and back to cheese, as Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) presented the case of Gouda to an audience from a diverse array of fields, including social impact, political ecology, geography, and responsible innovation. Huysmans began by highlighting the ... Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese
2025 4min
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Looking Back on 2024
IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work of the Bassetti Foundation (which she co-founded with her brother Piero Bassetti) is both a reflection and result of her dedication, and we endeavor to ... Looking Back on 2024
2025 5min
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Opportunities in digital transformation, organizing and STS at the IT University of Copenhagen
IT University of Copenhagenย invite applicants who can contribute to strengthening the IT Universityโs research and teaching in how digital technologies affect organising and organisational transformations, for instance how AI or new data management practices engender changes in public institutions, NGOs or private companies. The candidates need to have a background in qualitative humanities or social ... Opportunities in digital transformation, organizing and STS at the IT University of Copenhagen
2025 1min
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Follow the Food: The Power of Place โ Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia
Future Food presents: Follow the Food 2nd Seminar: The Power of Place โ Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia On Monday, November 18th, environmental historian Flora Roberts and rural sociologist Irna Hofman explored the topic of apricots in Tajikistan during the second Follow the Food seminar. The seminar, hosted by Future Food ... Follow the Food: The Power of Place โ Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia
2024 8min
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Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
The e-book Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity is one of the outcomes of A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). This European Union Horizon 2020 funded project concluded this summer (2024), its aim being to understand the implications of the transition to a circular economy on the environment, economy ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
2024 7min
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Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series
Thanks to an Incubator grant, Utrecht University (NL) is hosting the Follow the Food seminar series. The project is led by Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) and aims to trace the workings of the global food system by following several products with a so-called Geographical Indication (GI). In Follow the Cheese, the first of ... Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series
2024 8min
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Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
On 14 May 2024 I had the pleasure of showing Tiago Sรก Gomes and Bรกrbara Arita from the Lisbon-based NGO Upfarming, and Jean-marc Louvin of ICLEI around the Utrecht city garden Food For Good. Upfarming promotes food literacy, community development, participatory ecology and well-being in cities through implementing holistic urban agriculture projects. Their approach combines ... Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
2024 5min
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Looking back on 2023
2023 was our busiest and most exciting year to date. It saw the launch of the new Fondazione Bassetti website, the development of a host of new and long-established collaborations, the culmination of our participation in one major EU funded project and the start of a new and exciting research and innovation support project, and ... Looking back on 2023
2024 7min
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La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 4/4
Event: La realizzazione dell’improbabile – Trentโanni di Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Date: 2023 12 18 Time: 45:35 min. Place: MEET Digital Culture Center – Milano. Language: Italiano. Part: 4/4 url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/897412948 Photos: Album in Flickr. Podcast: la singola parte 4 di 4, la versione integrale e la playlist (in Spotify) Post: La realizzazione dell’improbabile. Contents: ... La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 4/4
2023 2min
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