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Exploring Soil Microbiology: an educational experience

Feb 13 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...

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What Nature does for us? Ecosystem services

Cecilia Franco

Feb 20, 20232 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...

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Jun 21, 20224 min read

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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Feel Local: Understanding the gap between local production and consumers

Daniela Fonseca

Jun 20, 20221 min read

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...

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Four months to remember - an internship at F4S

Jill Scholz

Jun 20, 20225 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...

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The InnovPlanet Summer School has arrived

F4S Team

Jun 15, 20223 min read

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...

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Cesare Neto

May 20, 20223 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...

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Cecilia Franco

Mar 21, 20221 min read

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...

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Ana Rita Silva

Mar 21, 20223 min read

+ 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...

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Let's talk about Regenerative Agriculture

Cecilia Franco

Feb 18, 20222 min read

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...

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Food4Sustainability visits sustainable projects in Spain

F4S Team

Feb 14, 20222 min read

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+...

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EIT Food GROW Workshops - second session on 27th November

Cecilia Franco

Nov 19, 20212 min read

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",...

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Luis Martins

Oct 11, 20212 min read

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,...

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Is there a link between organic food and reduced cancer risk?

Sílvia Moreira

Aug 25, 20211 min read

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...

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Veracruz tests a magnetic technology to save 20% of water consumption

Luis Martins

Jul 16, 20211 min read

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...

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Is the end of herbicides drawing nearer?

Ana Rita Silva

Jun 16, 20211 min read

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...

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AlimentAÇÃO Project presents good practices

Rita Bernardo

May 30, 20212 min read

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...

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A brief overview of organic farming in Portugal

Cecilia Franco

May 20, 20211 min read

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...

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New webinar series - SUSTAINABLE SOILLESS FARMING

Cecilia Franco

May 20, 20211 min read

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...

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Food4Sustainability united against food waste

Ana Rita Silva

May 5, 20215 min read

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,...

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