Philips’ Biosphere home farming

Home Farming explores growing at least part of your daily calorific requirement inside your house. This biosphere home farm has been designed to occupy a minimum of floor space and instead to stack the various mini-ecosystems on top of each other. It contains fish, crustaceans, algae and edible plants, all interdependent and in balance with each other. Water filtration, recycling of nutrients and optimum use of sunlight are all central to its appeal.

Indoor gardener

The power plant - a hydroponic / aeroponic growing system made by prepara

Power plant

Our worry-free soilless indoor gardening appliance puts herbs, fruit and fresh flowers at your fingertips, all year long. The Power Plant automatically dispenses nutrient to your seeds and plants so you won't need to remember. Its svelte, clean design looks great on any window sill. No overwatering, no forgetting, no worries and no green thumb needed...just leave and grow!

Field robot

Agricultural engineering has become a high-tech field with highest worldwide relevance with respect to food, energy as well as landscape conservation. There is a strong need for innovations and new ideas to create solutions with ecological, economical and social relevance. The future applications of autonomous small size robots and robot swarms in agriculture will be a revolution in this field. However, whenever technology meets nature, considerable technical and non-technical challenges have to be solved. The International Field Robot Event, founded by Wageningen University (The Netherlands) in 2003, has stimulated the development of autonomous field robots and has become a major platform for innovations, interdisciplinary cooperation and information exchange.

VOICI LE CATALOGUE

À l’initiative de Francis Chevrier, dirécteur de l'IEHCA, l'Institut européen d'histoire e des cultures de l'alimentation, des universitaires et des chercheurs lancent un appel à Nicolas Sarkozy pour la mise en place d’un inventaire des pratiques, traditions alimentaires et culinaires de l’Union européenne. Le patrimoine alimentaire du continent entier dans un catalogue scientifiquement menée? http://www.iehca.eu/home.html http://www.iehca.eu/docs/pj_site/Publications/food_history/sommaire_vol_2_2003_1.pdf http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/societa/200809articoli/36506girata.asp

Atlas of Food

From the excessive use of grain to satisfy meat-eating demands to the safety of new food technologies. Maps and graphics to show how the food chain is affected by historical events, political economy, natural disasters, and changing lifestyles.

by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang

Global Tastes

“The ‘local food’ movement, by turning the age-old relationship of value and distance on its head, is poised to replace organic as the value-added distinction du jour.” By John Feffer Photo by Stanislav Stankovic

Pasona 02: Urban Underground Farm

The last place you'd expect to find a 10,000 SF (1,000 square metres) farm is below the business distract of Japan. The facility is called Pasona 02 was built in an former bank vault underneath a major Tokyo office building in the heart of the business district of Japan. The farm is broken up into 6 different rooms each with computer controlled temperature and lighting.

The vertical farm

By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster?

The oil we eat

Following the food chain back to Iraq

by Richard Manning

just food

Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. We do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities.

survival rations

Percorsi enogastronomici

Quattro regioni – Piemonte, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna e Lazio -, quattro viaggi alla scoperta dell'Italia del cibo. Quattro viaggi in cui libri, immagini, personaggi e prodotti raccontano il territorio.

Eat Your Vegetables!

Greg Higgins of Higgins Restaurant and Bar in downtown Portland, OR, talks about using local produce, building community and supporting sustainability.

Victory gardens

Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort.

Livestock Behaviour, Design of Facilities

Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.

Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat

From the first to the twenty-first centuries, the things we eat and drink have crossed countries and continents before reaching our tables. They have travelled inside everything from wooden barrels and nineteenth-century tea clippers to refrigerated shipping containers and jet planes travelling at 500 miles an hour. Moreover, they have left a trail of footprints behind them, stirring economic, social and political change in their wake.

by Sarah Murray

BE AN URBAN CHEF WITH URBAN FOOD

Oliver Rowe set himself a challenge - to run a restaurant in the heart of London, having sourced all his ingredients from within the route of the London. With thanks to Eleonora Bottin www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/urbanchef_index.shtml www.dispenser.rai.it/showB.php?id=2752

food NOT bombs

You can make a big difference by having everyone you know send in A DOLLAR FOR PEACE. Food Not Bombs is as busy as ever. Imagine how much we could do if a million people donated a dollar each to Food Not Bombs. We are already doing so much on the money that has already been contributed. We are feeding the people displaced by the failing global economy. along with the food we recover we are also buying thousands of pounds of grains, beans and other bulk foods. We are also buying and collecting seeds to grow organic food. We are feeding thousands of hungry people every week in over 1,000 communities all over the world.

MISSIONE ”ENDURING CHEESE” , UN PROGETTO DI COOPERAZIONE DECENTRATA

"La pecora abruzzese? E' molto simile a quella afgana". Una semplice constatazione di un pastore, Nunzio Marcelli, presidente dell'Arpo, Associazione Regionale Produttori Ovicaprini d'Abruzzo ha dato vita ad un progetto che ha come obiettivo quello di insegnare ai kuchi, i nomadi dell'Afghanistan, a produrre formaggio stagionato.