#sustainability
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 3mn
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Research-Technology Management Journal Call for Papers
The Research-Technology Management journal has posted a call for manuscripts (max 5000 words) for a special issue on Responsible Innovation for Emerging Technology: Navigating Ethics, Society, Diplomacy, and Sustainability, edited by Nuran Acur, Dr Jarryd Daymond, Dr Carlos Carbajal, and Prof. Minu Kumar. The deadline for manuscript submission is 01 October 2025. The editors are ... Research-Technology Management Journal Call for Papers
2025 3mn
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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 3mn
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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 3mn
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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 4mn
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Pathways to Sustainability
On 28 November I attended the Utrecht University Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2024 in the beautiful surroundings of the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht. The title of the conference was At Home?, and the conference focused upon a premise: A just and sustainable future can only be reached with a feeling of HOME for all. All ... Pathways to Sustainability
2025 3mn
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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 8mn
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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 5mn
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Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Mireia Bes Garcia and Oliver Langdon
This edition of Art in Responsible Innovation features Mireia Bes Garcia from Bristol University and Oliver Langdon of Kilter Theatre in conversation with Jonathan Hankins. The University of Bristol Public Engagement team and Kilter Theatre have collaborated several times over the last decade, working on immersive theatre projects on quantum/virtual reality and synthetic biology. In ... Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Mireia Bes Garcia and Oliver Langdon
2023 2mn
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Launch of the Critical Infrastructures Lab
What is the Critical Infrastructures Lab? The Critical Infrastructures lab is hosted by the University of Amsterdam. From the website we learn that the lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital by establishing a community around three infrastructural subtopics (geopolitics, standards, environment), producing ... Launch of the Critical Infrastructures Lab
2023 12mn
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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
2023 4mn
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Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Future of River Basins and Deltas Seminar
The PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) held a seminar in Rotterdam on 11+12 October 2022 dedicated to the future of river basins and deltas, which I attended on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. The specific deltas discussed were the Rheine-Meuse, Mississippi and Yangtze, with the seminar rationale being that river basins and deltas are crucial ... Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Future of River Basins and Deltas Seminar
2022 8mn
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