The TransFarmers - Transforming Farmers' Communities project has started, in the scope of the ERASMUS+ program, an Iberian exchange for cohesion and promotion of inland territories with emphasis on good practices...
It’s been 7 years since 196 countries worldwide signed the Paris Agreement and we’re still aiming at a limit temperature increase of 1,5ºC above pre-industrial levels. But how close are we to reach that goal ? And wha...
Attention : This survey is only for Portuguese people. Thank you for your understanding Food4Sustainability , a collaborative laboratory in agricultural sustainability, and Building Global Innovators (BGI) have teamed...
Why carbon? Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions make up the biggest slice of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions make, up about 66% since 2010, and reached record highs in 2019, with 37.9 GtCO2 fossil emitted into th...
The concept of sustainable public procurement has been gaining popularity in recent times due to its potential to promote multiple benefits by integrating a sustainable development perspective into public procurement....
A year has passed since we launched the Food4Sustainability Academy on 21 March 2021. With the purpose of disseminating knowledge about sustainable agriculture and relevant issues for the change in the food paradigm,...
It was under the theme " The Food Journey " that we developed a face-to-face action with 5th and 6th grade students, in a school in Lisbon, reaching a total of 300 students and their teachers. Students and teachers ex...
Webinars are back at the F4S Academy . The first cycle of webinars on Regenerative Agriculture will start on March 24. In 1983 Robert Rodale, one of the pioneers of this practice, defined Regenerative Agriculture as "...
Those who live on the Iberian Peninsula can notice the change in rainfall distribution, and even in its reduction in volume. Portugal has most of its continent with average annual rainfall rates of less than 600 milli...
Earlier this month, between 2 and 4 February, part of the Food4Sustainability team headed to Spain, in the framework of the Erasmus+ TransFarmers project, in order to visit and meet, in person, the AlVelAl team and so...
This is how we started 2022: full of energy, working remotely, and with two new co-workers joining the team. Their skills, project management and nutrition, will consolidate our focus for this year: applications for m...
Food4Sustainability, a collaborative laboratory in the field of agricultural sustainability, and AlVelAl, a Spanish regenerative landscape association, have joined forces to create the ERASMUS+ Transforming Farmers&#x...
The future is today. We live in a unique moment, when the will to recover from the pandemic and increase our resilience is joined by the will to transform attitudes and sectors of the economy. It is no longer just a q...
Christmas is honoured and celebrated by many people all over the world and brings positive energy into the atmosphere. The tradition of giving gifts on December 25 goes back centuries and has been kept alive until tod...
Last 16 October, Food4Sustainability engaged in initiatives alluding to World Food Day. Since 1981, the date has been celebrated in more than 150 countries to raise awareness about nutrition and food issues. That day...
Smart Sustainable Farms Foods and Trade European Digital Innovation Hub (SFT- EDIH) has been recognised as a national Digital Innovation Hub (DIH). The SFT-EDIH is one of the 6 Digital Innovation Hubs approved by Orde...
