According to Defne Karaosmanoglu, a research associate at the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at the University of London, “food cultures of a particular community help us to understand how that community connects to the past, lives in the present and imagines its future.” At a time when there are more
Gastronomy can capture the imagination in times of revolution or indeed in times of severe hunger. The third biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium will take place in DIT Cathal Brugha Street on May 31st and June 1st around the theme of revolution. The most downloaded paper from the archives of the
According to data collected by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAA), in 2014 there were 29.1 million hectares of transgenic soybean crops—a sizable portion of the 42.2 million hectares given over to GM crops (besides soybeans, 12.5 million hectares of corn and 0.6 million hectares of
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva praised Petrini’s contribution to increasing public awareness on the need to improve agriculture in Europe and ensure a sustainable food supply chain. According to Silva “These include numerous activities drawing attention to the necessity to reintroduce local crops that smallholders and subsistence farmers can
