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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...
Cecilia Franco
Feb 1, 20243 min read
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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...
Cecilia Franco
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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Smart Sustainable Farms Food and Trade EDIH receives European Commission's Seal of Excellence
The SFT-EDIH Digital Innovation Hub receives the Seal of Excellence from the European Commission, for the merit of the work proposed in...
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Jun 21, 20224 min read
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Feel Local: Understanding the gap between local production and consumers
The project "Feel Local: Understanding the gap between local production and consumers", is supported by the RIS* PD (Regional...
Daniela Fonseca
Jun 20, 20221 min read
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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...
Jill Scholz
Jun 20, 20225 min read
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The InnovPlanet Summer School has arrived
Are you passionate about innovation within the food system? Do you want to contribute to a better world and improve everyone's lives by...
F4S Team
Jun 15, 20223 min read
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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...
Cesare Neto
May 20, 20223 min read
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One Year of F4S Academy
A year has passed since we launched the Food4Sustainability Academy on 21 March 2021. With the purpose of disseminating knowledge about...
Cecilia Franco
Mar 21, 20221 min read
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+ Healthy Program
It was under the theme "The Food Journey" that we developed a face-to-face action with 5th and 6th grade students, in a school in...
Ana Rita Silva
Mar 21, 20223 min read
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Let's talk about Regenerative Agriculture
Webinars are back at the F4S Academy. The first cycle of webinars on Regenerative Agriculture will start on March 24. In 1983 Robert...
Cecilia Franco
Feb 18, 20222 min read
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Food4Sustainability visits sustainable projects in Spain
Earlier this month, between 2 and 4 February, part of the Food4Sustainability team headed to Spain, in the framework of the Erasmus+...
F4S Team
Feb 14, 20222 min read
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EIT Food GROW Workshops - second session on 27th November
The first session of the GROW Workshops, "Rethinking agriculture: soil, ideas and actions - case studies from the Portuguese territory",...
Cecilia Franco
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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Agricultural Big Data: an overview
Since the beginning of this century, a wide range of advanced digital technologies have been intensively used and daily updated,...
Luis Martins
Oct 11, 20212 min read
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Is there a link between organic food and reduced cancer risk?
Cancer treatment goes beyond fighting the disease. Alongside the elimination of the cancer cells, the patient’s mind, spirit, and the...
SÃlvia Moreira
Aug 25, 20211 min read
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Veracruz tests a magnetic technology to save 20% of water consumption
Veracruz company group is dedicated to the cultivation of several varieties of Mediterranean almonds and its mission aimed the...
Luis Martins
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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Is the end of herbicides drawing nearer?
Since glyphosate commercialization began in 1974, this has become the main component of herbicides, being applied in various sectors, as...
Ana Rita Silva
Jun 16, 20211 min read
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AlimentAÇÃO Project presents good practices
The public presentation of the results of the AlimentAÇÃO project and debate on Local Public Policies for the right to adequate food took...
Rita Bernardo
May 30, 20212 min read
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A brief overview of organic farming in Portugal
The targets set by the European Union provide that by 2030 countries should have 25% of their utilised agricultural area (UAA) under...
Cecilia Franco
May 20, 20211 min read
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New webinar series - SUSTAINABLE SOILLESS FARMING
It will start today a new webinar series on Sustainable Soilless Farming, consisting of two sessions: Webinar #1 - New developments and...
Cecilia Franco
May 20, 20211 min read
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Food4Sustainability united against food waste
Food waste is an issue of global importance that results in consequences at different levels, such as food safety, environmental,...
Ana Rita Silva
May 5, 20215 min read
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