Kyoto Calls Rome: Interview with Professor Davide Marino
Professor Davide Marino is the leader of the research team who created the Food Atlas for the Metropolitan City of Rome, and, recently, the Observatory on Food Poverty, both driven with the University Consortium for Socioeconomic and Environmental Research CURSA,...
Blog: International Zero Waste Day and FUSILLI’s Stand Against Food Waste
Its a first: International Day of Zero Waste The first International Zero Waste Day was celebrated on March 30th, 2023 with the aim of promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns and reducing waste on the planet. The initiative is jointly facilitated...
Kyoto Calls Rome: A Tale of Cities
We were happy to discover that the attention to what is happening in Rome continues to increase! Last March 13th, a delegation from Kyoto University and City, led by professor Shuji Hisano [1], an expert in the political economy of agriculture, came here to study...
Anticipating the Feeding Cities Conference: From Challenge to Solution
Feeding Cities - a transdisciplinary conference on sustainable urban food systems. Amidst social, environmental, and economic pressures on food systems worldwide, cities increasingly take up a crucial and leading role in food system transformations. Cities can play...
Assessing Progress and Setting Objectives: A Visit to Nilüfer Municipality
In mid-March, Nilüfer Municipality (NIL) hosted a three-day study visit organized within the framework of the FUSILLI project. The delegation consisting of Fundacion Cartif (CAR), Izmir Democracy University (IDU), and Demir Energy (DEM), visited Nilüfer and...
Blog: Ancestral Seed Exchange in Nilüfer and The Tale of Crows
Nilüfer Municipality organized the 8th Seed Exchange event. Due to the earthquake and flood disasters in the country, the seed exchange event was held only as a "seed exchange", and held without a festival. There were 55.000 packages of seeds distributed /...
Blog: Kolding proudly presents: its Food Council!
We are excited to announce a major milestone for Kolding: the establishment of our very own Food Council! This makes Kolding one of the first cities in Denmark to create such a council. This is the result of nearly 18 months of dedicated work, during which we have...
Researching Oslo’s Alternative Food Network with FUSILLI and FoodE
In fall of 2022, a group of students from the first-semester MSc Agroecology course at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) conducted a stakeholder case study to analyze Oslo's food system. The students, hailing from Germany, France, USA, Nigeria, and...
Castelo Branco’s Food Policy Council: Established!
The first meeting of the Food Policy Council took place on the 19th of December 2022, in the Castelo Branco City Hall building.The Food Policy Council's inaugural meeting took place on December 19, 2022, at Castelo Branco Municipality's headquarters, the City Hall...
We’ve come so far: Newsletter #6 is out!
Time has flown by, and we're more than half way through the project! So what's happened in the last 6 months of FUSILLI? Our partners in Tampere have been going ahead in full momentum! Our Project Manager from TAMK, Mikael Lindell, opens our editorial with a...
