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Phd. Course: Public Foodscapes – a role for local and sustainable Food Strategies ?

by on February 26, 2012 in Link

Join the Phd. Course: Public Foodscapes – A Role for Local and Sustainable Food Strategies.   Credits: 5 ECTS Duration: 4 days Time: 8-11 May 2012 Location: Aalborg University, Ballerup Organisers: Prof. Bent Egberg Mikkelsen and Assoc. Prof. Michael Søgaard Jørgensen Deadline for registration: 1 March 2012   Local and sustainable food strategies are spreading [...]

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Alternative Lit Review (from an Alternative Person)

Alternative Lit Review (from an Alternative Person)

by on February 25, 2012 in News, Opinion

(Surely you wouldn’t expect something conventional from me.)  *** Lit Review Scholars agree on one point: Food crisis. *** Food systems Unjust, unsustainable; Something’s wrong. *** One billion Underfed, undernourished; There’s enough. *** One billion Badly fed, badly nourished, Unhealthy. *** The verdict: It’s a broken food system … Can be fixed? *** Who’s in [...]

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Foodlinks meeting in Tirrenia, Italy

by on February 24, 2012 in News

Last week Foodlinks held its third face-to-face project meeting in Tirrenia on the west coast of Italy. This was quite an important meeting since the project is almost half over and we have struggled quite a bit with finding a clear focus for the activities in the communities of practice. The main aim of this meeting [...]

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Blogging in accordance with social capital.

by on February 22, 2012 in News

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 [...]

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World Nutrition Rio2012, Knowledge Policy and Action

by on February 7, 2012 in News

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 [...]

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