Exploring Soil Microbiology: an educational experience

Cecilia Franco • Feb 1, 2024 • 3 min read

Exploring Soil Microbiology: an educational experience

On 22 January 2024, Food4Sustainability (F4S) conducted an educational experiment on soil microbiology for a 5th grade class at Escola Básica 2+3 Professor Delfim Santos in Lisbon. Under the scientific guidance of Mar...

The 4 Rs of Christmas - Reunite, reduce, reuse and recycle!

mafaldacatana32 • Dec 20, 2023 • 2 min read

The 4 Rs of Christmas - Reunite, reduce, reuse and recycle!

With the arrival of Christmas, there is a greater stimulus to consumption, which has a huge environmental impact. In this short article, we'll remind you what's important at this time of year - spending time...

OakFood, the project that aims to (re)valorize Portuguese acorns

Sílvia Moreira • Nov 15, 2023 • 4 min read

OakFood, the project that aims to (re)valorize Portuguese acorns

Portugal is an exceptional producer of acorns, mainly due to its extensive Montado that runs through the country from north to south. It is estimated that trees of the Quercus genus represent around 36% of the entire...

EIT Food Grow Workshops are back!

nunoserra7 • May 11, 2023 • 2 min read

EIT Food Grow Workshops are back!

EIT Food Grow Workshops are back in Portugal. The first module " Rethinking Agriculture" will start on May 26th. The first session of the 2023 EIT Food Grow Workshops will take place in the auditorium of Centro Cultur...

National Network for Balanced and Sustainable Food

Catarina Vasconcelos • Apr 20, 2023 • 3 min read

National Network for Balanced and Sustainable Food

The National Network for Balanced and Sustainable Food was launched last March! The project led by Food4Sustainability CoLAB was approved within the implementation of the innovation agenda "Terra Futura" - Sustainable...

What Nature does for us? Ecosystem services

Cecilia Franco • Feb 20, 2023 • 2 min read

What Nature does for us? Ecosystem services

An ecosystem includes all forms of life (plants, animals and micro-organisms - biotic component), which inhabit a given area, interact with each other and with the surrounding physical environment - soil nutrients, at...

AIRS: the project that brings agriculture and innovation together.

Sílvia Moreira • Jan 20, 2023 • 3 min read

AIRS: the project that brings agriculture and innovation together.

The climate change increasingly leads to a higher incidence of extreme events, which in Portugal has resulted in more storms in winter, hotter summers, and longer periods of drought. One way to mitigate climate change...

European Project on advanced biodiversity monitoring started

F4S Team • Dec 22, 2022 • 1 min read

European Project on advanced biodiversity monitoring started

BioMonitor4CAP is a research project aiming to develop advanced biodiversity monitoring to show which agricultural practices and policies work best at conserving farmland biodiversity. Twenty-three partner organisatio...

Regenerative agriculture in Portugal

nunoserra7 • Dec 13, 2022 • 4 min read

Regenerative agriculture in Portugal

The Grow Workshops , streamlined in Portugal by Food4Sustainability CoLAB and BGI - Building Global Innovators, are now in the second year of this initiative that wants to promote free training and awareness, sponsore...

Biolog Awards 2022

Cecilia Franco • Nov 21, 2022 • 2 min read

Biolog Awards 2022

In 2021, Food4Sustainability, a collaborative laboratory for sustainability in the agri-food sector, launched the first catalogue of national producers, organic and sustainable, in Portugal's first Bio-Region, Id...