The Euro-Mediterranean Food Tourism Congress in Tossa de Mar on 1 June, added a new tiwst this year when it invited IGCAT experts to participate in a programme especially designed to demonstrate culinary tourism in action. IGCAT’s participation in the congress started with a warm welcome from Mª Àngels Pujals, Tourism Councilor
This spring, a dozen students from Buncombe County Early College participated in The Cookbook Project, an eight-week food literacy pilot program organized by local nonprofit organization Bounty and Soul. With Bounty and Soul’s mission already focused on providing fresh produce and wellness resources to the community, The Cookbook Project was a natural fit.
The three pillars of agricultural sustainability include environmental, economic and social impacts. According to Bruce Knight, people in the agricultural sector have done a good job of calculating environmental impacts with life cycle analyses and other measures. Increasingly, people are finding the balance between achieving environmental objectives and boosting productivity.
Nearly one in six people in Southeast Asia is a smallholder farmer, often working tiny, inefficient plots of just one or two hectares. They are among these countries´ poorest people. Grow Asia, formed a year ago by the World Economic Forum and ASEAN, is aiming to change that. It has
