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Pizza and Digital Storytelling: Authenticity that Creates Value

The agri-food sector of pizza has been profoundly transformed by the spread of digital. The role of this tool has revealed itself to be decisive in enhancing the narrative of…

Food, territories, and a shared future: the WFF Italian Chapter meets Rural Hack at the Naples Technological Center.

A bright, warm, and intense day. A crossroads of stories, knowledge, and territories. A meeting between those who study the future and those who, every day, strive to build it…

Renewable Energy, Agriculture, and Forestry for Sustainable Development

Thanks to her work on the reorganization of food and energy systems, Lamiaa Chab (University of Tuscia) received a special mention in the non-agricultural thesis category at the first edition…

Opportunities and risks for the Italian Agri-Food Made in Italy

The Made in Italy brand has reached historic heights: according to the latest Istat data, in 2022 Italy’s exports hit an all-time high of €625 billion. Globally, Italian products are…

Italian Food Design: expanding the perspective on Food

Food and design. Two seemingly separate worlds, yet closer than one might imagine—and not just in aesthetic terms. The concept of Food Design combines form, structural complexity, the right nutritional…

Renewable energy, agriculture and forestry for sustainable development

Thanks to a study on the reorganization of food and energy systems, Lamiaa Chab (University of Tuscia) received a special mention among the non-agricultural theses in the first edition of…

The fig, a metaphor of meridional innovation: the Summer School returns from september 3 to 5 in Sessa Cilento

From September 3 to 5, 2025, the village of Sessa Cilento will host the third edition of the Foodsystem 5.0 Seasonal School, scientifically directed by Rural Hack as part of…

The earth listens only if you listen to it first

In certain alpine valleys, as in many southern or island rural areas, agronomic knowledge has never been purely technical. It is based on observation, experience, and close attention to the…

Raw milk between risk acceptance and storytelling

There is a small but interesting sign that perhaps the cultural battle over raw milk can be won—perhaps it has already been won and we haven’t realized it yet. Granarolo…

Asian bug, here’s the solution to visualize fruit damage

Thanks to a study capable of optimizing and automating the recognition of damage caused by the brown marmorated stink bug on pears, Enrico Giovanella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)…