Categories Conference, Food and Feed
Categories Democracy and Participation, Food and Feed, Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Innovation and politics, Lecture, Politics, Sustainability
Collective food procurement as responsible innovation
Collective food procurement is an emerging phenomenon at multiple levels, well beyond purchasing: for example through foraging and self-production; short food chains and direct sales; or food governance through local institutions, but also through networks of NGOs. On February 4th 2022 the 'Food Citizens?' Conference at Leiden University wrapped up the first four and half years of research of the ERC Consolidator project 'Collective Food Procurement in European Cities: Solidarity and Diversity, Skill and Scale'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 17 February 2022 Permalink
Read also: Omeopatia del rifiuto and Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
Read also: CORES LAB on Consumption, Networks and Practices of Sustainable Economies and other posts with Food tag
Categories Food and Feed
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Special Issue: Responsible Innovation in the Agri-food Sector.
Wageningen Academic Publishers have just released the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Special Issue: Responsible Innovation in the Agri-food Sector (on open access). - More
by Redazione FGB, 20 June 2018 Permalink
Future Food Symposium in Utrecht
February 17 saw the Groentetas group of Utrecht University organize the Future Food Symposium, with long time Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni as opening speaker. In this short report we offer an outline of the event. - More
by Jonathan Hankins, 29 February 2016 Permalink
Categories Food and Feed, Forum
Read also: Uncertainty and disquiet and Omeopatia del rifiuto
Read also: Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
Categories Bioethics, Food and Feed
Prof. Colin Sage on Food and McMeekin
The following comment was written and sent to the Bassetti Foundation by Prof. Colin Sage, senior lecturer within the Geography Department at University College Cork, and refers to the interview with Prof. Andrew McMeekin posted on this site on 20th april 2011. - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 May 2011 Permalink
Categories Food and Feed, Sustainability
European Food Safety Authority is launching a public consultation
EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) is launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed safety and the Environment. The work follows a request from the European Commission (EC) to EFSA for advice on this issue in 2007. EFSA's opinion will help inform consideration of any future EU measures in relation to nanotechnologies in the food and feed area. - More
by Redazione FGB, 25 November 2008 Permalink
Read also: Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food in Cristina Grasseni's blog.
Categories Food and Feed, Nanotechnology
