How to assess the healing power of nature? – Impact evaluation process in a Hungarian school garden

In the spring of 2018, at ESSRG we collected research needs related to green care services (therapeutic approaches which integrate the power of nature). Reviewing the claims, we perceived that the key players of this field had lacked the impact evaluation researches that would have verified the effectiveness of these services and the healing power of nature.

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Agroecology: From tradition to innovation

Join us in our two days symposium to get a feel of where agroecology is going in Hungary.

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Sustainable Food Systems < > Sustainable Diets

The Center for Food Studies at The American University of Rome organised an uplifting event on the changing food consumption practices, policies, research and investments conducive to fostering the desirable transformations of the food system and dietary practices.

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Bean there, done that: why we should eat more beans and legumes in general

The world needs more protein, but animal-based protein intake is by no means sustainable. Legumes are a good alternative to meat and thanks to their biological nitrogen fixation capacities, they also benefit the environment.

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Locked-in or transition towards agri-food system sustainability: focus on crop diversification

More than 200 participants arrived at the first European Conference on Crop Diversification to Budapest on 18th to the 21st of September 2019.

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NEW LEARNING JOURNEY: System thinking for food system sustainability

Are you concerned about climate change? Biodiversity loss? Inequality? Hunger and malnutrition?

Do you want to understand how all these issues are connected through our food system?

Do you want to learn practical tools and approaches that help to navigate the innate complexity of dynamic systems?

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Re-localizing food governance one commitment at a time

This summer I was fortunate enough to be chosen to take part in the 7th Eating City Summer Campus on Food Governance. Each year the campus creates an opportunity for sharing, mutual learning, trust and network building and envisioning new solutions that can answer some of the complex challenges that our urban food systems are facing.

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EU-Citizen.Science – the first periodic project meeting

Members of the EU-Citizen.Science consortium met in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September for the first periodic project meeting.

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Social innovation – local solutions to global challenges?

The #ISIRC2019 conference in Glasgow created an outstanding opportunity to take stock of the landscape of Social Innovation scholarship, practice and policy.

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