Tucson’s title as a UNESCO World City of Gastronomy, the first in this country to receive the label — isn’t just about food. It’s about their food...
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A taste of culture: How food becomes borderless, travelling across countries and through time.
According to Defne Karaosmanoglu, a research associate at the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at the University of London, “food...
MoreA feast for the eyes and a taste for fiction: the literature of food
Gastronomy can capture the imagination in times of revolution or indeed in times of severe hunger. The third biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium...
MoreBrazil: Contrasting Agricultural Landscapes
According to data collected by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAA), in 2014 there were 29.1 million...
MoreSlow Food President Carlo Petrini named FAO special Ambassador Zero Hunger for Europe
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva praised Petrini’s contribution to increasing public awareness on the need to improve agriculture in...
MoreIs digital farming the future of food?
OpenAG, an open-source agricultural research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, advocates for an open-source...
MoreTribes create their own food laws to stop USADA from killing native food economies
Traditionally, many tribal members grew lima beans, squash, corn, and other vegetables; used mesquite trees for food, medicine, and other...
MoreWhy congress is looking at labels to curb food waste
According to a recent Harvard Food Law Policy Clinic´s report. Up to 91 percent of Americans polled said that they have occasionally thrown away...
MoreNutrition labels on junk food will finally make more sense – USA
On Friday, The Food and Drug Administration finalized new nutrition fact labels for packaged foods. Some cosmetic changes include bigger font...
More1st world conference on tourism for Development opens this week in Beijing
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Government of the People’s Republic of China has hosted the First World Conference on Tourism for...
MoreBill 36 designed to boost local food use, improve food literacy
The week of June 6-12 will be celebrated as Local Food Week across all of Ontario, US. Since 2003, the province has invested more than $116...
MoreForeign Investment in the African Tourism Market: Pros and Cons
Increasingly, Africa is at the forefront in promoting the tourism industry as a means of improving the continent’s economic development and...
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