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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
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
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
Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh
Follow the Food Seminar 3. Geographical Indications and Coffee in Indonesia: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh The third Follow the Food seminar was held on 11 December at the Utrecht University Future Food Conference. This yearโs conference theme was food democracy, and raised several questions that are closely tied to ... Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh
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
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
Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation has long been raising questions around relationships between food, its procurement choices and responsible innovation thinking, an overview of which can be found here. In this, the third review of Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (2023), we take a look at four articles that ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
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
Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre
Jonathan Hankins –ย On Friday 22 March I met up with Marco Innocenti, an Industrial PhD candidate in the Philosophy of Responsible Innovation at Milan University. Our shared interests are much broader than just responsibility in innovation, stretching through art and poiesis to questions surrounding the relationship between aesthetics and functionality, topics that are closely tied ... Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre
Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood
On 17 June 2022 I visited the Utrecht suburb (in construction) of Rijnvliet for a guided tour offered as part of the City of Utrecht Architecture Day. This development won the 2021 Innovation in Politics Award and reached the final of the A+Architizer Award 2023 in the Sustainable Landscape / Project Planning category for its ... Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood
Food For Good
On 4 April 2023 Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni showed a group of students from Nottingham Trent university (UK) round the community garden Food For Good in Utrecht (NL).As regular readers will know, both share an interest in local food production. Cristina is Principal Investigator in Food Citizens?, an ongoing EU funded project that aims ... Food For Good
Resources from Voedsel Anders
I recently attended the 2022 Voedsel Anders conference held at Wageningen University on 10 – 11 June. This particular University is a fitting place for such a gathering as it is home to Wageningen Food and Biobased Research institution, where ‘with our clients and partners, we can create economical viable and sustainable solutions to contribute ... Resources from Voedsel Anders