Bean there, done that: why we should eat more beans and legumes in general
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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.
More...Locked-in or transition towards agri-food system sustainability: focus on crop diversification
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More than 200 participants arrived at the first European Conference on Crop Diversification to Budapest on 18th to the 21st of September 2019.
More...NEW LEARNING JOURNEY: System thinking for food system sustainability
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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?
More...Re-localizing food governance one commitment at a time
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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.
More...EU-Citizen.Science – the first periodic project meeting
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Members of the EU-Citizen.Science consortium met in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September for the first periodic project meeting.
More...Social innovation – local solutions to global challenges?
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The #ISIRC2019 conference in Glasgow created an outstanding opportunity to take stock of the landscape of Social Innovation scholarship, practice and policy.
More...Can one democratise social research through citizen science?
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Can we democratise and decolonise social research? – that was our question for 3,000+ sociologists in Manchester at the 14th European Sociological Association Conference.
More...Sharing seeds could help farmers grow better food
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The Horizon Magazine featured our Dynaversity project on how to help farmers decrease their dependency on global agribusiness and grow food better suited to local conditions.
More...The Power of the Pulse
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Nutritionists are more and more regarding grain legumes as one of the therapeutic weapons against the obesity epidemic, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer – the leading causes of death in Hungary. Pulses are a healthy source of energy and also good for the environment. The realisation of this ecological-health approach was the central theme in the Mediterranean Legume Innovation Network (LIN) Workshop of the TRUE project.
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