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...
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 | May 29, 2015 | * Resources, External documents
“Food is increasingly an urban issue”, states the Urban Agriculture Magazine editorial. City Region Food Systems are at the core of the Magazine, collecting evidence and reporting experiences from several cities and regions of the...
by Luca Colombo | May 22, 2015 | External documents
A new report has been published by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. The report makes the case for reaching beyond the traditional bounds of the scientific community in conducting food system...
by Gianluca Brunori | Oct 15, 2014 | Newspapers
The supermarkets’ business model is as broken as that of banking – and Aldi and Lidl offer no magic fix go to the guardian website Tesco,Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, skirmishing over falling sales, cannibalising their own profits with a price war, belatedly throwing margin...
by Gianluca Brunori | Sep 28, 2014 | in scientific journals
Food policy, Volume 49, Part 1, December 2014, Pages 151–159 What are the costs of increased food system localization in the case of a fresh vegetable product? When production is reallocated across space and seasons, how do supply chain costs and consumer prices...
