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 [...]
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France sets nutritional standards for school meals
France has just adopted new rules on nutritional quality of food served in school canteens. I came across a video featuring agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire. You can watch it here, but here’s a synopsis for non-French speakers: France has a 3-point plan to guard against the degradation of nutritional standards and food culture in [...]
How food shapes our cities
Watch the Ted talk of Carolyn Steel, one of our bloggers.
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