#food
Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese
Follow the Food’s 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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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 year’s 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
2025 5mn
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Follow the Food: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia
Future Food presents: Follow the Food 2nd Seminar: The Power of Place – 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 – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia
2024 8mn
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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 8mn
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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
2024 5mn
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Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
On 14 May 2024 I had the pleasure of showing Tiago Sá Gomes and Bárbara 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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Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre
Jonathan Hankins – 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
2024 6mn
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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
2023 7mn
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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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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
2022 6mn
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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. The Food Citizens? project has comparatively investigated in the cities of Gdańsk (Poland), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Turin ... Collective food procurement as responsible innovation
2022 3mn
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CORES Network Seminar
On Saturday 27 October 2018 the CORES Network (the Italian acronym of COnsumi, Reti e pratiche di Economie Sostenibili) held a seminar at the University of Bergamo, Italy, entitled Feeding the World, Local Solutions for a Global Issue. Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins presented a paper based upon research carried out for his PhD, while long ... CORES Network Seminar
2018 3mn
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