After a well deserved holidays, the IGCAT team headed by its President, Prof. Greg Richards and its Director, Dr. Diane Dodd is back to its challenging and busy agenda. 2015 presents a motivating milestones as the European Region of Gastronomy launch will be launched (an initiative that IGCAT has been championing
IGCAT’s Director submitted an evaluation report on the Routes of Jewish Heritage to the European Institute of Cultural Routes on the 11th January 2015. The Routes of Jewish Heritage is managed by the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ),which aims to preserve and promote Jewish culture and
New York City announced Thursday that as of this summer, those plastic foam containers (along with those plastic foam cups, plates and the like) are going to be banned. The city collected about 28,500 tons — repeat: 28,500 tons — of expanded polystyrene last year. About 90 percent of that was from
IFEMA organizes the 35th edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITUR 2015, which will run from January 28th to February 1st 2015 at the Feria de Madrid. The Fair will host the global tourism industry with the most comprehensive exhibition of the proposals and targets companies, organizations and institutions around
EVEN though sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence of undernourishment, affecting about one in four people, between 30% to 40% of food produced on the continent for human consumption is lost or wasted. Earlier this month, this concern brought together hundreds of residents in Nairobi for the continent’s first “Disco Soup” – an international grassroots movement to raise awareness of
