by Gianluca Brunori | Oct 11, 2015 | Miscellaneous
Is it possible to re-localise food production and consumption? ‘Old’ market destinations are losing out in favour of new emerging markets. From being simple ‘policy takers’ developing and emerging economy countries are gaining sovereignty and becoming ‘policy makers’...
by Luca Colombo | Oct 6, 2015 | * News
Planned to be organized annually, the “Food Supply Chain Forum” will be held for the first time in Turkey (Istanbul, 3-4 December 2015). As advertised, the Forum intends to present “viable” and rational solutions for the food sector which will contribute to reduce...
by Luca Colombo | Sep 30, 2015 | Miscellaneous
The Quaker UN Office has published a paper (REALIZING THE RIGHT TO FOOD IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE – THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALL-SCALE FARMERS) that identifies industrial agriculture as a major contributor to climate change (30-35% of global greenhouse gas...
by Gianluca Brunori | Sep 28, 2015 | Miscellaneous
The Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops measures sustainable performance throughout the specialty crop supply chain. Enabling metric based benchmarking to compare and communicate crop performance. Source: Stewardship Index For Specialty Crops: Measuring...
by Gianluca Brunori | Sep 20, 2015 | Miscellaneous
Smith, J., Andersson, G., Gourlay, R., Karner, S., Mikkelsen, B. E., Sonnino, R., & Barling, D. (2015). Balancing competing policy demands: the case of sustainable public sector food procurement. Journal of Cleaner Production....
by Gianluca Brunori | Aug 24, 2015 | Miscellaneous
Over the 2000s’, consumers’ food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a result, short food supply chains and local food systems...
by Luca Colombo | Jul 31, 2015 | * News, Events
The Milan EXPO “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” is the major annual world event on food & agriculture. GLAMUR has organized a conference in the European Union Pavilion to discuss the multidimensional performance assessment for global and local food value...
by Luca Colombo | Jul 14, 2015 | Miscellaneous
The advice consists of nine recommendations centering on the following themes: fruit and vegetables, fish and shellfish, exercise, whole grain, fats, dairy, meat, salt and sugar. Balancing intake and expenditure. The English version of the advice is...
by Luca Colombo | Jul 8, 2015 | External documents
Greenpeace has published its Food and Farming Vision. The report describes what Ecological Farming means, and how it can be summarised in seven overarching, interdependent principles. As stated in the introduction “it is a vision of sustainability, equity and...
by Luca Colombo | Jun 19, 2015 | Miscellaneous
FAO has just published a new book that assesses climate challenge and ways of coping with it. The book, “Climate change and food systems” describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for...
