Sustainable food systems not addicted to growth – paper with Bálint Balázs in Nature Sustainability
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The global food system is Exhibit A in the crisis of growth-addicted development. Exploitative of humans and animals, ecologically rapacious, hooked on fossil fuels, and controlled by a small number of multi-national corporations from food to fork, this system produces massive quantities of the wrong foods at incredible social, ecological and economic cost. With food crises again looming on the near horizon, a strategy to tweak and maintain the current growth-driven food system is highly questionable. In a new perspective paper published in Nature Sustainability, a team of 32 food system scholars provide the blueprint for something very different: sustainable post-growth food systems. Our senior researcher, Bálint Balázs is one of the authors.
More...New Living Library showcases collaborative short food chains across Europe
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A living library showcasing good-practice examples of collaborative short food chains has today been launched by a consortium of organisations, under the three-year, EU-funded COACH project. This living library includes more than 30 concrete examples of how collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors can help to scale up short agri-food chains, in order to rebalance farmers’ position in the chain, create win-wins for producers and consumers, and drive locally led innovation in territorial food systems.
More...Empowering communities, inspiring citizen science
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InSPIRES brought together practitioners and experts from across and beyond Europe to co-design, jointly pilot, implement, and roll out innovative models for Science Shops. We launched several Science Shop projects to reflect on participatory research models and strengthen communication between scientists and citizens to provide input on the research agenda over the next years.
More...Interview with Eszter Kelemen and her peers in the EuroNatur Magazin
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Last October, the IPBES community of more than 1,000 researchers received the EuroNatur Award 2021. On their behalf, our senior resercher, Eszter Kelemen accepted the award with marine ecologist, Dr. Yunne-Jai Shin (France), and German environmental scientist and agricultural biologist Prof. Josef Settele. In an interview, the three scientists talk about why they are full of hope despite the alarming state of the Earth.
More...RADIANT project encourages agrobiodiversity and battles the monoculture paradigm
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RADIANT: realizing dynamic value chains with underutilized crops is a new European project coordinated by Catholic University of Portugal in Porto (Portugal), financed by Horizon 2020, the European Community Framework Program for Research and Innovation. The objective is to develop solutions and tools that will promote agrobiodiversity, combating the agricultural paradigm of monoculture and industrialized agriculture.
More...Workshop based on our research with blind and partially sighted people and ecotourist guides
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As an outcome of the InVisible Green project we participated in a workshop organized by the Blind and Partially Sighted Association in Csongrád County for experts of ecotourism of the Kiskunság National Park.
More...IPBES scientists, including our researchers, received the EuroNatur Award
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Researchers working for IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) have received the 2021 EuroNatur Award. Our senior scientist, Eszter Kelemen with two fellow researchers had the honour to receive it on the Island of Mainau.
More...Growing sustainable agriculture through local legumes
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To become more sustainable, Europe must diversify its agri-food systems. According to the TRUE project (Transition paths to sustainable legume-based systems in Europe), this starts with promoting the cultivation and consumption of home-grown legumes.
More...Eszter Kelemen will receive the EuroNatur Award for IPBES
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Our senior scientist, Eszter Kelemen with two fellow researchers will receive the EuroNatur Award 2021 which goes this year to all scientists at IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services).
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