Recently I came across an interesting news item from Russian Internet sources where social capital concept has been applied to blogging. Popular, among Russian Internet users, blog hosting LiveJournal (“Живой журнал, ЖЖ”) started a new system of calculating the popularity rankings of its blogs and community diaries for all of its users, based on social [...]
World Nutrition Rio2012, Knowledge Policy and Action
In Late April in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a great congress will take place: ‘World Nutrition Rio2012Knowledge Policy Action’ http://www.worldnutritionrio2012.com.br/ingles/index.php. What is interesting in addition to remarkable lecturers and riveting original programme, it is the fact that it will happen just three weeks before Rio+20. For those who want to attend the conference visit the [...]
We need your help!
The Purefoodlinks blog needs a new ‘face’. We want to adjust the top part and change some colours. Do you have a suggestion for a great picture that can serve as a ‘banner’? Remember, it has to be a copyright free picture. Suggestions for a name, colours or other items that can change the look and [...]
Tastes like fresh milk
This gem of a food(-like?) product passed my camera, but not my lips, during a recent trip. Were someone to indulge my thoughts, the vitriol would be thick and the sardonicism – a work Etymology Online tells me originates in the Greek plant sardonion, which ‘caused facial convulsions resembling those of sardonic laughter, usually [...]
Fine Dining & Food Waste
There is a new interesting initiative on the horizon: The Forgotten Feast. The Forgotten Feast is a new restaurant concept created specifically to highlight the 20 million tonnes of annual food wastage that exists within our society. Whether it’s fresh fish thrown back into the sea, vegetables ignored for being too ugly, or unusual [...]
Anatole project
We received an interesting reaction via the contact form from Tamara Guirao. Tamara Guirao is coordinator of the Atlantic Arc Cities Conference and they are currently working on a project that links cities and the short-delivery (local) food system, which is called ANATOLE. She invites you to visit their web www.anatoleproject.eu for more info on the activities, and the blog [...]
Sisubiso®!
Jumping from one video to another on youtube last night, I came across this advertisement and I was curious to know your opinion on it. It’s a celebration of Sibusiso, a new product of the DuPont corporation which is probably the biggest American chemical company. Just to have an idea about them we can just [...]
Working Groups on ‘Civic Food Networks’ at conferences ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’, IFSA 2012 and IRSA 2012
As follow-up of the successful Working Group on “New Forms of Consumer Engagement in Food Networks: Diversity, Mechanisms & Dynamics” that was held at the ESRS Conference in Chania, Crete last August 2011 (see previous entry on this blog) we have organized Working Groups on similar topics at different scientific events in the coming year. [...]
‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’ Conference – new deadline for submission of abstracts
As mentioned in previous posts on the Rural Sociology weblog, an international conference entitled ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’ will be held from 1 to 4 April 2012 in Wageningen. A whole range of different topics and research findings will be presented and discussed in 20 different working groups, including a variety of food themes such as [...]
Good technology or bad technology?
I’ve been intrigued for some time by the so many ways that ‘sustainability’ gets conflated. It doesn’t necessarily surprise me that most people don’t find it easy to engage with such a lofty idea, and usually I just agree with whatever people tell me sustainability ‘is’, smile, have another drink, and invite my interlocutor to [...]
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