Fondazione Giannino Bassetti

Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood

Jonathan Hankins describes a guided tour to the Utrecht suburb (in construction) of Rijnvliet, winner of the 2021 Innovation in Politics Award for its approach to ecology. - Leggi

Food For Good

Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni recently showed a group of students from Nottingham Trent university (UK) round the community garden Food For Good in Utrecht (NL). - Leggi

Categorie Sustainability, Innovation Poiesis Intensive

Resources from Voedsel Anders

Jonathan Hankins shares resources from the Voedsel Anders Conference. - Leggi

Categorie Conference, Food and Feed

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'. - Leggi

Collective food procurement as responsible innovation

Categorie Innovation Poiesis Intensive, Eventi, anthropology, Food and Feed

CORES Network Seminar

On Saturday 27 October 2018 the CORES Network held a seminar at the University of Bergamo, Italy, entitled Feeding the World, Local Solutions for a Global Issue. A report. - Leggi

Categorie Food and Feed

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. - Leggi

Categorie Open culture, Food and Feed, Democracy and Participation, Conference

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. - Leggi

Categorie Food and Feed, Forum

Bassetti Foundation at the INSS International Meeting

The Second Annual Meeting of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability takes place in Charlotte North Carolina between the 4th and 6th of April, and Jonathan Hankins will be there to represent the Bassetti Foundation and present during the poster session. - Leggi

Categorie Innovation and Responsibility, Sustainability, Policy

Beyond Alternative Food Networks, a book review

Long time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently published her latest book 'Beyond Alternative Food Networks; Italy's solidarity purchase groups'. - Leggi

Categorie Food and Feed, anthropology, Public Partecipation

Sustainable food provisioning, technology or trust?

Dutch Scientists recently announced that they had grown artificial meat from stem cells in an experiment that they hope could provide an alternative source of meat food production for the planet. - Leggi

Photo: cc - by European Citizen from flickr

Categorie Food, Biotechnology

Innovating Food, Innovating the Law - video e slides

Il 14 e 15 novembre 2011 si è svolto a Piacenza, presso l'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore il convegno "Innovating Food, Innovating the Law". Pubblichiamo il report di Paola Sobbrio, le fotografie dell'evento, i video suddivisi per interventi e le slide utilizzate nelle relazioni. - Leggi

Innovating Food, Innovating the Law - report e immagini

Leggi anche: la presentazione del convegno, il report di Paola Sobbrio e Innovating Food riepilogo di materiali presenti nel nostro sito

Categorie Conference, Governance, Innovazione, Rischio, Video

Innovating Food, Innovating the Law - report - terza parte

Leggi anche: la presentazione del convegno e Innovating Food riepilogo di materiali presenti nel nostro sito

Categorie Conference, Governance, Innovazione, Rischio

Innovating Food, Innovating the Law - report - seconda parte

Leggi anche: la presentazione del convegno e Innovating Food riepilogo di materiali presenti nel nostro sito

Categorie Conference, Governance, Rischio, Innovazione

Innovating Food, Innovating the Law - report e immagini

Leggi anche: la presentazione del convegno e Innovating Food riepilogo di materiali presenti nel nostro sito

Categorie Conference, Governance, Innovazione, Rischio

Innovating Food

In the light of the 'Innovating Food, Innovating the Law' conference taking place in Piacenza this weekend, we take a look at the history of the food argument on this website. - Leggi

Categorie Bioethics, Food and Feed

Innovating Food, Innovating the Law

Due giorni di convegno su un aspetto dell''innovazione' spesso dimenticato: la 'legal innovation' nel cibo: infatti l'agricoltura, la produzione e la distribuzione alimentare sono state in epoca contemporanea riplasmate dalla tecno-scienza, dalla policy e dal diritto. A Piacenza il 14 e 15 ottobre 2011. - Leggi

Cabbage shot 3 - opera di Caterina Saban

Categorie Conference, Food

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. - Leggi

Categorie Food and Feed, Sustainability

La crisi del cibo

L'aumento del prezzo delle derrate alimentari, iniziato già alla fine del 2010, è stato l'innesco per la serie di rivolte che si stanno verificando nel Nord Africa e, secondo gli esperti, è destinato a determinare instabilità politiche ed economiche almeno per il resto del 2011 e il 2012. Alcuni dei meccanismi che stanno alla base di questo fenomeno... - Leggi

Categorie Food

Food for Mind. Food for Health

Between Friday 22nd and Sunday 24th October the city of Torino hosts the "Food For Mind. Mind For Health" conference and Cristina Grasseni of the Bassetti Foundation will be speaking. - Leggi

Read also: Cristina Grasseni's blog in English and in Italiano

Categorie Forum, Conference

Cloned meat and milk enter the food chain

This week the UK news channels and press have run a story that raises some serious questions about the regulation of cloning and foodstuffs. It appears that milk produced by the offspring of a cloned cow is (or has been) on sale in UK shops, unmarked and mixed in with other milk. - Leggi

Read also: Innovation, social risk and political responsibility by Piero Bassetti

Food, Sustainability and Plant Science conference

The 10th EMBO/EMBL Science & Society Conference entitled "Food, sustainability and plant science - a global challenge" takes place on 6th and 7th of November 2009 at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. How can science contribute to addressing global challenges such as the requirement to feed a growing population, climate change and biological threats to yields? - Leggi

Food, Sustainability and Plant Science conference

Categorie Conference

Functional Food, Novel Food e Nanofood

Il Gruppo Scientifico Italiano Studi e Ricerche (G.S.I.S.R.) organizza a Milano giovedì 11 dicembre 2008 una giornata di studio intitolata "Functional Food, Novel Food e Nanofood. Nuove frontiere nell'alimentazione". Il tema è di rilevante attualità: tra le questioni affrontate dagli esperti invitati ci sono il quadro normativo nazionale e internazionale, le procedure di valutazione della sicurezza e di autorizzazione, le innovazioni nel campo delle tecnologie di produzione e le loro ricadute sugli alimenti. - Leggi

Leggi anche: Slow food, fast genes e A proposito di Antropologia della globalizzazione nel blog di Cristina Grasseni

Categorie Convegni, Tavole rotonde, Nanotechnology

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. - Leggi

Categorie Nanotechnology, Food and Feed

Cristina Grasseni at the Slow Food Salon of Taste

On Monday 27th October 2008, within the vast programme of the Slow Food movement's Salon of Taste which was held in Turin between the 23rd and the 27th October, Cristina Grasseni of the Bassetti Foundation took part in the round table presentation "The Shepherdess: Queen of the Alps", devoted to the innovative local experiences of women making a living in the mountains. - Leggi

Categorie Eventi, Tavole rotonde

La reinvenzione del cibo

Una recensione di Nicole Lozzi del libro "La reinvenzione del cibo. Culture del gusto fra tradizione e globalizzazione ai piedi delle Alpi" di Cristina Grasseni, edito da Qui Edit. "Da quando l'innovazione tecnologica in campo agro-alimentare ha cominciato a rivoluzionare le abitudine alimentari, è fiorito un interesse interdisciplinare - che coinvolge l'etica, la sociologia, la politologia, etc. - sul tema del cibo..." - Leggi

Vedi anche: Slow food, fast genes

Categorie Antropologia dell'innovazione, Pubblicazioni, Antropologia, Cibo

Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)

- Leggi

In Italiano

Categorie anthropology, genetics, precautionary principle

Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)

This is a first attempt at focussing on issues and questions of timescapes, responsibility and creativity with regard to the issue of the production and consumption of food in contemporary Italy. - Leggi