by Luca Colombo | Oct 6, 2016 | Miscellaneous
According to a recent YouGov poll, 71% of UK shoppers say that buying local produce is important, yet it makes up only a fraction of the retail efforts of the four major supermarkets. “The idea of transparency in the food chain to encourage a change in the...
by Luca Colombo | Sep 23, 2016 | Miscellaneous
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition has released a new report on “Food systems and diets: Facing the challenges of the 21st century”. Lessons taken from Glamur are mentioned in the...
by Luca Colombo | Feb 2, 2016 | Miscellaneous
This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets aims to reduce the current polarization of views on the impacts of agricultural trade on food security and on the manner in which agricultural trade should be governed to ensure that increased trade openness...
by Luca Colombo | Jan 14, 2016 | Miscellaneous
The Sustainable Development Goals Fund at UNDP has organised a dialogue on “Food and Sustainable Development”. The event will take place on Monday, 18 January, from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m., at the United Nations headquarters in New York (ECOSOC Chamber). In this...
by Luca Colombo | Dec 16, 2015 | in scientific journals
Some promote “high tech” solutions designed to boost yield while others prefer local food systems. To better understand these debates, a scientific article explores four perspectives from the literature: (1) technology to increase food production; (2) equitable food...
