Publications and Essays
To contribute to in-depth conversations on sustainable food systems
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Essays
City Food Policies, Securing our daily bread in an urbanizing world, Edited by Le Château, ISBN 978-88-7637-186 8
Download the abstract below, the essay is available on http://www.lechateauedizioni.it/2014/
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La Ville qui mange, Editions Charles Léopold Mayer (ECLM), ISBN:978-2-84377-167-5
présentation des contenus (français)
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City Food Policies - 5 levers of action to foster the necessary paradigm shift in our food system
Short paper by Isabelle Lacourt and Maurizio Mariani
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Proposal Papers
Un défi à la mesure du futur "Institut de la ville durable"
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The potential of food service to deliver sustainable food.
Workshop Hearing "Feeding the planet sustainability, from foresight to better integrated policies" Brussels, November 19-20 2012 DownloadECADIM
The ECADIM or Etudes de Cas A DImensions Multiples (Study of Cases with Multiple Dimensions) have been developped by the Charles Leopold Mayer to information, knowledge and relevant analyses about real cases and specific themes. They are documents which raise hypotheses or key questions under several point of view: history, social, economical or environmental impact etc.
Campagna Amica: Italian Network of Food Direct Sales
Campagna Amica is a marketing project designed by Coldiretti, one of the main Italian Farmer Trade Union, in order to promote direct selling of local and seasonal food products by farmers.
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Souk el Tayeb in Beirut : a Farmers' Market in Lebanon
Between innovation and tradition, Souk el Tayeb is an innovative social entrepreneurial project, and also place where a new sense of community is experienced around food value and culture. Souk el Tayeb
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Food consumption can be considered a religiously and culturally-defined social issue, and can be used as an instrument for inclusion and social cohesion. The project “Food and Religion in Public Food Services” focus on the child nutrition in primary schools and the way the different religious conceptions concerning food are taken into account. In particular, it explores the differences in the diet and nutritional status among children from different origins and the way public institutions might take into account religious and traditional beliefs regarding nutrition. It aims to produce a comparison between European cities, starting from Turin, Rome and Zaragoza.
Food and Religions in public food service
The project was led by Maria Chiara Giorda, and the research team composed of Luca Bossi and Elena Messina (www.benvenutiinitalia.it).
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