by Luca Colombo | Nov 2, 2015 | * News
“(…) Geography aside, most shoppers associate “locally-grown” with small, or maybe midsized, farms. Isn’t that why Walmart and other stores feature photos of local farmers in their stores, not, say, executives of Dole?” Read the whole Fortune...
by Luca Colombo | Oct 27, 2015 | * News
“There (i)s a lot of new information. We look(ed) at how to provide a framework for future discussion of legislation and how to work towards sustainability, particularly for local chains,”. The closing sentence of the Glamur scientific coordinator interview,...
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 | 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 | Apr 14, 2015 | * News
The IFPRI ‘2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report‘ reviews what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global, regional, and national levels. This year’s report is the first to also look forward a year, offering analysis of the potential opportunities and...
by Luca Colombo | Mar 20, 2015 | * News
Local foods is one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture, and the number of local food marketing outlets is increasing. Growing demand for local foods in the United States is, at least in part, the result of consumer interest in environmental and...
