#Food and Feed

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

Jonathan Hankins

07/07
2023 7mn
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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

Jonathan Hankins

22/06
2022 6mn
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Making Networks Happen: Cooperation for Sustainability Transitions

On March 1st, 2022, at the Milan seat of Confcooperative Lombardia, in the framework of POLITIKÉ, ‘the political school’ offered in collaboration with the Bassetti Foundation for Responsible Innovation, industrial biotechnologist Maurizio Bettiga and cultural anthropologist Cristina Grasseni jointly led a workshopping session involving 25 leading operators from the cooperative world (presidents, heads of service ... Making Networks Happen: Cooperation for Sustainability Transitions

Redazione FGB

15/03
2022 3mn
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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

Redazione FGB

17/02
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

Redazione FGB

21/11
2018 3mn
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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). The editorial team includes Vincent Blok and Thomas B. Long, names that regular readers will be familiar with from other posts on this website and articles in the Journal of Responsible ... International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Special Issue: Responsible Innovation in the Agri-food Sector.

Redazione FGB

20/06
2018 7mn
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Dissident Gardens

Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam is currently hosting an exhibition entitled Dissident Gardens. The exhibition contains multiple installations and events that focus on the struggle between nature and culture, all of which can be experienced until 23 September 2018. More information is available here. The exhibition drew our attention not only because of its relationship ... Dissident Gardens

Jonathan Hankins

18/04
2018 4mn
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2016 INSS Meeting Report

The Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) 2016 conference took place between 8 and 10 June, and was once again held at multiple sites across the USA and Europe. The London site was hosted at University College London (UCL), with Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins attending on behalf of the Foundation and presenting his work looking ... 2016 INSS Meeting Report

Jonathan Hankins

22/06
2016 7mn
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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. Groentetas means ‘vegetable bag’ in Dutch, and in this case the name used by an organization run by students within ... Future Food Symposium in Utrecht

Cristina Grasseni
Jonathan Hankins

29/02
2016 5mn
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Beyond Alternative Food Networks, a book review

Long time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently published her latest book. Beyond Alternative Food Networks is described by MIT Professor Heather Paxson as “Much more than a book about alternative ways of sourcing and consuming food…. it challenges the rationalist mythology at the heart of capitalism and reveals the affective relations and contingent practices ... Beyond Alternative Food Networks, a book review

Cristina Grasseni
Redazione FGB

22/01
2014 3mn
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