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Supporting sustainable tourism in Europe, EU-China Tourism Year officially launched in Venice

The aim of the EU-China Tourism Year (ECTY) is to increase the number of Chinese visitors to Europe, whilst encouraging sustainable tourism and stimulating investment opportunities for Europe and China through a number of cooperative marketing campaigns. These campaigns will be funded through public-private partnerships, business summits, and around 5000

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29 January 2018
Actualités du monde
Fabrizia

Africa Food Prize opens 2018 nominations

The Africa Food Prize has announced the commencement of the search for the 2018 Africa Food Prize Winner. This is a distinguished award that recognises outstanding individuals or institutions that are leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa from a struggle to survive to a business

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24 January 2018
Actualités du monde
Fabrizia

Reclaiming our cities, starting from food

Over half the world’s people now lives in cities, an extraordinary statistic given that in 1900, just over a century ago, only 10% of the population was urban. And the trend is continuing in the same direction: Predictions estimate that 75% of us will be city-dwellers by 2050. The roots of

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19 January 2018
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Fabrizia

2018 European Capitals of Culture: Leeuwarden and Valletta

From 1 January, Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) and Valletta (Malta) will hold the title of European Capital of Culture for one year. The opening celebrations for Valletta will take place from 14 to 20 January across the city, inspired by the traditional Maltese festa (village feast). Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor Navracsics, will attend

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16 January 2018
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Fabrizia

Theresa May vows to eliminate UK’s plastic waste by 2042

Theresa May will commit the UK to eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 as she launches the Government’s environmental plan for the next 25-years. Under the pledge waste such as the carrier bags, food packaging and disposable plastic straws that litter the country and pollute the seas would be abolished. But

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11 January 2018
Actualités du monde
Fabrizia

European cultural heritage to be celebrated with campaign

THOUSANDS of initiatives and celebrations are set to begin across Europe to raise awareness of the diversity of European history and culture. The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 has been launched this week at the European Culture Forum in Milan. The European Commission campaign puts the spotlight on the

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20 December 2017
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Fabrizia

Farm tourism seen as path to inclusive, sustainable agriculture

Farm tourism opens up a whole new perspective for inclusive and sustainable agricultural and rural development (Isard) and provides hope for revitalizing the sector as a sunrise, if not a sunshine industry in Southeast Asia. Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit Jr., director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study

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15 December 2017
Actualités du monde
Fabrizia

Terra Madre Day 2017: serving solutions to tackle climate change

Each year on Slow Food’s anniversary, December 10, the global Slow Food network celebrates Terra Madre Day to promote local eating, agricultural biodiversity and sustainable food production. This year’s Terra Madre Day called special attention to the Menu for Change campaign, which highlights the relationship between food and climate change:

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14 December 2017
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Fabrizia

Op-Ed: Mind the (food) gap

By the middle of this century, the world’s farmers will have another 2.4-billion mouths to feed, half of which will be in Africa. But if we only focus on producing more calories of food per hectare, and throttling back population growth in order to fill the gap, we won’t address

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12 December 2017
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Fabrizia

South Aegean region in search of next ‘European Young Chef’

The South Aegean Region, European Region of Gastronomy 2019 has launched a gastronomy competition on the Aegean islands to find the perfect candidate that will represent the region in the European Young Chef Award 2017. The region had won last year’s competition with Greek young chef Stamatios Misomikes. The Young Chef Award is organized

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15 September 2017
Actualités du monde
Julia

Tourism and future energy: Committed to curb emissions

Under the title ‘Tourism and Future Energy: Unlocking low-carbon growth opportunities’, industry leaders and policy makers have convened in the Kazakh capital city of Astana to discuss the contribution of the tourism sector to reducing carbon emissions. The conference is a joint initiative of Astana EXPO 2017 and the World

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28 June 2017
Actualités du monde
Julia

Edu-Kitchen: taste education in Romania – Interview

Slow Food Turda and its leader, Marta Poszonyi, have started a new project, Edu-Kitchen, promoting food and taste education to kids and students throughout Romania. This initiative is just the latest in over 10 years of actions aiming to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable food consumption among the

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26 June 2017
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