The European Parliament has proposed banning the use of names that could recall meat-based preparations by companies marketing plant-based or laboratory-produced raw materials. This, they say, is to avoid confusing…
Land Consumption 2025: reading the landscape to change course
In the Italian landscape, there is a silent border advancing: agricultural and natural surfaces becoming roads, warehouses, yards, plots. It is not a destiny, it is a choice. And like…
Dry stone walls: ancient technology for future agriculture
In Southern Italy, there are infrastructures that are invisible to satellite maps. They have no sensors, cables, or antennas. Yet, for centuries, they have managed water, soil, and life. These…
There are places where the future is not built with silicon, but with dust. Dust of seeds, gathered one by one by hands that do not program algorithms but possibilities…
Food Policies: ideas for an Italian, European, and Global Agenda
In Italy, we talk about food often and willingly; it’s one of the things that most fascinates tourists. Most of us have an opinion, some form of expertise, memory, or…
How farmers in Kenya are using drones to rethink agriculture
Why Drones, Why Now Across Kenya, smallholder farmers are experimenting with drones to confront a pressing dilemma: how to produce more food with fewer resources. Rising input costs, unpredictable weather,…
In Japan, for months now, an unprecedented crisis has hit rice. First came the drought of 2023, then the massive return of post-pandemic tourism, followed by geopolitical tensions and fears…
Nostalgia does not nourish and generates algorithms
In Japan, for months, an unprecedented crisis has been hitting rice. First the drought of 2023, then the massive return of post-pandemic tourism, finally geopolitical tensions and fears for new…
The term has been circulating among professionals for around thirty years, and indeed the pioneers began creating the first food hubs as early as the late 1990s. However, since digital…
