Last year, a staggering 26 new food and agriculture funding sources launched across the globe. This year, that number has almost doubled. To help you navigate the sea of new food startup funding options, we’re publishing lists of the new food and agriculture focused funds, accelerators, crowdfunding sites and corporate incubators.
The beginning of the World Food Travel Summit is becoming closer. The event to be held in Estoril from 8 to 11 April, is receiving new confirmation of participants and the program is being enriched. The Portuguese Association of Culinary Tourism and Economics (Aptece), responsible for organizing the event, has
Catalonia has been awarded with the title of European Region of Gastronomy 2016, a recognition to be awarded each year to two or three regions of the network, which, together or separately develop a program of events and collaborations which will help to achieve visibility… read more
Armenian tour agencies cannot fully utilize and serve Armenian national cuisine as a tourist ‘product’ to incoming tourists, whereas thus they would have contributed to the recognition of the country’s cultural values, specialists say. Development and Preservation of Armenian Culinary Traditions NGO head Sedrak Mamulyan thinks that the field is
After the economic collapse, McDonalds failed to keep customers coming back in Iceland, and the company was forced to close their doors in the country. The final day that McDonalds was open in Iceland was October 31, 2009, and on that day a man named Hjortur Smarason purchased a meal
Catalonia has been declared European Region of Gastronomy 2016. The importance of the cultural heritage linked to the gastronomy and the fact that Catalan chefs lead the international cuisine have been instrumental in obtaining the license, an initiative by a platform of European regions (IGCAT). Read more …
In most cities, the phrase «food politics» might evoke images of grocery-store deserts or Bibb lettuce growing on a solar-paneled roof. But in Los Angeles, for Pulitzer-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, it’s in a bowl of pho, or fish kidney curry, or an order of tacos calabacitas. «Food is political
The revered Michelin Guide has for the first time launched its annual listing of the top restaurants in France in the gilded salons of the country’s foreign ministry, as part of a drive to defend France’s position as the world’s top culinary destination. READ MORE…
» The interesting thing about food and the city is that obviously there is no chance that a city could ever feed itself. To feed London, one needs about 140 x the area of London. So food is always going to be a global issue. Therefore, it is obviously different
During the International Tourism Fair in Madrid, the state will receive the title of Capital of Gastronomy 2015 which will start with 105 gastronomic, cultural and artistic activities in Mexico. The Secretary of Tourism of Guanajuato, Fernando Olivera Rocha, accompanied by the Ambassador of Mexico in Spain, Roberta Lajous, and the
«Going to the supermarket is never as simple as popping in for a carton of milk». The simple fact of the matter is that going grocery shopping isn’t—and never was—as simple as you imagined, whether you’re on your own for the first time, or you’ve been shopping for a family of
Should the UN’s leading food security agency prioritise helping countries boost their agricultural production with subsidised chemical fertiliser, or promote ecological farming practices? Should it help countries protect themselves against import surges, or open them to the global marketplace? Should it work exclusively with national ministries of agriculture, or demand
The North Carolina food sisterhood stretches out beyond restaurants, into pig farming, flour milling and pickling. Women run the state’s pre-eminent pasture-raised meat and organic produce distribution businesses and preside over its farmers’ markets. They influence food policy and lead the state’s academic food studies. And each fall, the state
More than a third of all of the food that’s produced on our planet never reaches a table. It’s either spoiled in transit or thrown out by consumers in wealthier countries, who typically buy too much and toss the excess. This works out to roughly 1.3 billion tons of food,
Nearly half of global manufacturers say they don’t have any visibility past their direct suppliers – in other words, they don’t know what is happening in their supply chain. While they may audit first tier suppliers, they usually cannot see beyond them to their suppliers’ suppliers.Applying higher standards to information
The Foreign Ministry and 30 foreign embassies in Hanoi hosted a food festival on January 24 in a bid to promote cultural exchange among nations and raise funds for orphans and the disabled. More than 4,000 people flocked to the event, where the embassies put on show the specialties and unique
