How can we make our food chain truly sustainable? From cutting pesticides in farming and improving animal welfare standards, to processing, packaging, and avoiding food waste… Farm to Fork reports on inspiring initiatives and success stories across Europe.
Unless you live in a warm climate, going to a farmers market during the winter can be slim pickins. One army veteran put in high tunnels and greenhouses so he can grow year round.
Work → In Progress: The Freelancing Changes Afoot - 2021-02-12
Vaccines are slowly arriving, but many of the shifts COVID has created will be lasting. These reverberations are much deeper than just working from home or increased digitization society s priorities have evolved. Thanks to the pandemic, people all over the world are completely rewiring their lives. They re leaving once-vibrant cultural metropolises for serene greenery and fresh air, turning away from foreign exports to support their local communities and embracing vacation time as an important tool for productivity.
This edition of
Work → In Progressexplores how these changes in ethos are manifesting in business and labor. In a world rethinking everything from agricultural models to freelance contracts, here are some of the latest trends in the workplace:
Encouraging EU shoppers to make the right choice: ‘Food sustainability is in consumers’ hands’ The consumer is integral to the success of a healthy and sustainable Farm to Fork strategy. How is the European Commission supporting shoppers to make better diet choices?
The European Commission’s Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy, unveiled in May 2020, aims to engage all players along the supply chain – from, as the name suggests, farm-to-fork.
In an effort to improve human and planetary health, the Commission has set a host of actions directed at the agricultural sector. These include reduction targets for chemical and hazardous pesticides, and fertilisers, as well as improved animal welfare.
Alan and Laura Jagoe
A cash prize and an Agri Aware Mobile Farm visit are up for grabs for primary school classes that bring the ‘Dig In!’ farming and food education resource to life in their learning.
Agri Aware, supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), launched its revitalised ‘Dig In! Learning About Life on the Countryside’ resource aimed at primary school students in November 2020.
The agri-food educational body has now launched a competition to encourage teachers to bring the resource to life and reconnect their students with how the food that ends up on their dinner plates is produced from farm to fork.