Exploring Soil Microbiology: an educational experience

Cecilia Franco • Feb 1, 2024 • 3 min read

Exploring Soil Microbiology: an educational experience

On 22 January 2024, Food4Sustainability (F4S) conducted an educational experiment on soil microbiology for a 5th grade class at Escola Básica 2+3 Professor Delfim Santos in Lisbon. Under the scientific guidance of Mar...

The 4 Rs of Christmas - Reunite, reduce, reuse and recycle!

mafaldacatana32 • Dec 20, 2023 • 2 min read

The 4 Rs of Christmas - Reunite, reduce, reuse and recycle!

With the arrival of Christmas, there is a greater stimulus to consumption, which has a huge environmental impact. In this short article, we'll remind you what's important at this time of year - spending time...

National Network for Balanced and Sustainable Food

Catarina Vasconcelos • Apr 20, 2023 • 3 min read

National Network for Balanced and Sustainable Food

The National Network for Balanced and Sustainable Food was launched last March! The project led by Food4Sustainability CoLAB was approved within the implementation of the innovation agenda "Terra Futura" - Sustainable...

What Nature does for us? Ecosystem services

Cecilia Franco • Feb 20, 2023 • 2 min read

What Nature does for us? Ecosystem services

An ecosystem includes all forms of life (plants, animals and micro-organisms - biotic component), which inhabit a given area, interact with each other and with the surrounding physical environment - soil nutrients, at...

Biolog Awards 2022

Cecilia Franco • Nov 21, 2022 • 2 min read

Biolog Awards 2022

In 2021, Food4Sustainability, a collaborative laboratory for sustainability in the agri-food sector, launched the first catalogue of national producers, organic and sustainable, in Portugal's first Bio-Region, Id...

Showcook DiscoSoup - Cooking to the beat of music

Cecilia Franco • Aug 19, 2022 • 2 min read

Showcook DiscoSoup - Cooking to the beat of music

On Saturday 6 August we held a Showcook Discosoup\* ( DiscoCook) for the walkers of ACANAC 2022 , an action within the Escutismo.Come project. A DiscoCook brings together the best of the worlds of music and cooking. M...

Four months to remember - an internship at F4S

F4S Team • Jun 20, 2022 • 5 min read

Four months to remember - an internship at F4S

Hello! My name is Jill, I’m from Germany and I study Global Project and Change Management in the Netherlands. Last year, I was looking for an opportunity to work within the food system and learn more about regenerativ...

Crazy Little Thing Called Technology

F4S Team • May 20, 2022 • 3 min read

Crazy Little Thing Called Technology

Data rich and information poor. This was a concept first mentioned in 1983, in one of the best-selling business book: In Search of Excellence \[1\]. In summary, the book describes that several organisations were rich...

Can the legume market grow through Carbon Farming?

F4S Team • May 20, 2022 • 3 min read

Can the legume market grow through Carbon Farming?

Carbon farming is gaining momentum within EU as a strategy to achieve the EU’s legally binding commitment to become climate neutral by 2050. The need to capture, store and recycle carbon, prompt the EU Commission to a...

Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture

F4S Team • Apr 19, 2022 • 2 min read

Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture

Why carbon? Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions make up the biggest slice of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions make, up about 66% since 2010, and reached record highs in 2019, with 37.9 GtCO2 fossil emitted into th...

An outstanding year

Cecilia Franco • Jan 20, 2022 • 1 min read

An outstanding year

This is how we started 2022: full of energy, working remotely, and with two new co-workers joining the team. Their skills, project management and nutrition, will consolidate our focus for this year: applications for m...