#food

Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Thanks to an Incubator grant, Utrecht University (NL) is hosting the Follow the Food seminar series. The project is led by Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) and aims to trace the workings of the global food system by following several products with a so-called Geographical Indication (GI). In Follow the Cheese, the first of ... Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Nina Litsios

29/10
2024 8mn
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Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation has long been raising questions around relationships between food, its procurement choices and responsible innovation thinking, an overview of which can be found here. In this, the third review of Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (2023), we take a look at four articles that ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

26/07
2024 5mn
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Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning

On 14 May 2024 I had the pleasure of showing Tiago Sá Gomes and Bárbara Arita from the Lisbon-based NGO Upfarming, and Jean-marc Louvin of ICLEI around the Utrecht city garden Food For Good. Upfarming promotes food literacy, community development, participatory ecology and well-being in cities through implementing holistic urban agriculture projects. Their approach combines ... Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning

Jonathan Hankins

06/06
2024 5mn
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Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre

Jonathan Hankins – On Friday 22 March I met up with Marco Innocenti, an Industrial PhD candidate in the Philosophy of Responsible Innovation at Milan University. Our shared interests are much broader than just responsibility in innovation, stretching through art and poiesis to questions surrounding the relationship between aesthetics and functionality, topics that are closely tied ... Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre

Jonathan Hankins
Marco Innocenti

18/04
2024 6mn
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Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood

On 17 June 2022 I visited the Utrecht suburb (in construction) of Rijnvliet for a guided tour offered as part of the City of Utrecht Architecture Day. This development won the 2021 Innovation in Politics Award and reached the final of the A+Architizer Award 2023 in the Sustainable Landscape / Project Planning category for its ... Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood

Jonathan Hankins

07/07
2023 7mn
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Food For Good

On 4 April 2023 Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni showed a group of students from Nottingham Trent university (UK) round the community garden Food For Good in Utrecht (NL).As regular readers will know, both share an interest in local food production. Cristina is Principal Investigator in Food Citizens?, an ongoing EU funded project that aims ... Food For Good

Jonathan Hankins

21/04
2023 4mn
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Resources from Voedsel Anders

I recently attended the 2022 Voedsel Anders conference held at Wageningen University on 10 – 11 June. This particular University is a fitting place for such a gathering as it is home to Wageningen Food and Biobased Research institution, where ‘with our clients and partners, we can create economical viable and sustainable solutions to contribute ... Resources from Voedsel Anders

Jonathan Hankins

22/06
2022 6mn
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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. The Food Citizens? project has comparatively investigated in the cities of Gdańsk (Poland), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Turin ... Collective food procurement as responsible innovation

Redazione FGB

17/02
2022 3mn
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CORES Network Seminar

On Saturday 27 October 2018 the CORES Network (the Italian acronym of COnsumi, Reti e pratiche di Economie Sostenibili) held a seminar at the University of Bergamo, Italy, entitled Feeding the World, Local Solutions for a Global Issue. Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins presented a paper based upon research carried out for his PhD, while long ... CORES Network Seminar

Redazione FGB

21/11
2018 3mn
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The Future of Waste – SoScience and Diana Group invite you to participate

SoScience and Diana Group invite you to participate in the fifth edition of the program “The Future Of” on June 14th, 2018 at the IRD’s innovation campus for the planet (near Paris). This free international conference focuses on the valorization of fruit and vegetable waste. The Future Of was created by SoScience in order to ... The Future of Waste – SoScience and Diana Group invite you to participate

Redazione FGB

31/03
2018 2mn
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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. The London site was hosted at University College London (UCL), with Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins attending on behalf of the Foundation and presenting his work looking ... 2016 INSS Meeting Report

Jonathan Hankins

22/06
2016 7mn
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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. Groentetas means ‘vegetable bag’ in Dutch, and in this case the name used by an organization run by students within ... Future Food Symposium in Utrecht

Cristina Grasseni
Jonathan Hankins

29/02
2016 5mn
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