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Local Food Can Restart from Food Hubs

What is a Food Hub, how does it work, and what is its purpose? Can a digital platform make a gesture as ancient as buying local food simple again?…
campania mater report

Campania Mater: a 24-Hour Event to Reflect on the Future of Agriculture

The data contained in the CAMPANIA MATER Report provide a snapshot of the agri-food sector in the Campania Region, serving as a basis for reflection on its future. Download the…

campania mater report

Campania Mater: a participated research to reflect on the food of the future

The data contained in the Campania Mater Report photograph the Agri-food [sector] of the Campania Region to reflect on the future. Download the volume edited by Rural Hack By appointment…

FoodSystem 5.0 Summer School: in Sessa Cilento to rethink the FoodSystem

The FoodSystem Summer School 5.0 returns to Sessa Cilento from September 3 to 5, 2025. This is the third stage of a journey that follows the rhythm of the seasons…

FoodSystem 5.0 Summer School: in Sessa Cilento to rethink the FoodSystem

The FoodSystem 5.0 Summer School returns to Sessa Cilento from September 3rd to 5th, 2025. This marks the third stage of a journey that follows the rhythm of the seasons,…

Fabio Ciconte intervistato da Cinzia Scaffidi sul tema “Il cibo è politica”

If food is politics, we need citizens,not consumers

For a long time, those who deal with the environment, sustainability, and agriculture believed and communicated that changing consumers’ daily habits could make a difference. Today, according to Fabio Ciconte,…

Hackathon Fab25 Smartcitizen Meshtastic

A report from the Hackathon of Smartcitizen and Meshtastic from Fab25 in the Czech Republic

I participated in the Hackathon held on the occasion of the world conference of Fablabs held in the Czech Republic last July in which two great open-source projects worked together…
Hackathon Fab25 Smartcitizen Meshtastic

A report from the Smartcitizen and Meshtastic Hackathon at Fab25 in the Czech Republic

I took part in the Hackathon held during the global Fablab conference in the Czech Republic last July, where two major open-source projects worked together to integrate. Last July, the…

Digital Farming in Africa: Climate Data and Co-Creation

Technologies growing in the furrows: notes from a digital rural africa

A report from the World Bank has been released. Technical title: Digital Climate Information and Agriculture Advisory Delivery Mechanisms in West Africa. Content: the analysis of ten pilot projects in…

FoodSystem 5.0 Summer School: Cultivating Complexity, Communicating Transition

In the heart of the Cilento National Park, a select group of young researchers, activists, and communicators is preparing to embark on a unique learning experience: the FoodSystem 5.0 Summer…

Pizza and digital storytelling: authenticity that creates value

The agri-food sector of pizza has been profoundly transformed by the spread of digital tools. The role of this medium has proven crucial in enhancing the storytelling of the pizza…

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)…

Sustainable viticulture with rhizobacteria

Chiara Tezza is the winner of the second prize of the first edition of the AgriFood Future Award, in the Non-Agricultural category. The student from the University of Verona was…