Mediterranean Diet and Italian Cuisine: age-old heritages for global health. We have celebrated Italian Cuisine Week in the World for eight years since 2015 when the World’s awareness changed. It has changed thanks to EXPO, which launched a solid and clear motto to the World from Milan — ”Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life” — paving the way for global…

The Future Food Institute’s return to the Maker Faire, led by the visionary Andrea Magelli, in Shenzhen, China, is more than a mere participation; it’s a reaffirmation of our commitment to supporting the Maker Movement globally. …

The FAO report, The Status of Women in Agri-food System, highlights the growing role of women in the agri-food sector. A presence so prominent that it has led the UN to coin the phrase “feminization of agriculture.” The sector, which is one of the primary sources of employment globally for…

As today is World Food Day on October 16th, we find ourselves at a unique juncture in history, marked by the profound challenges of a global pandemic and the stark brutality of an ongoing, inhumane conflict. These unprecedented crises have tested the delicate balance of our planet’s energy and food…

Today concludes a week that has seen the celebration (for us) of essential days: World Tourism Day, World Food Waste and Loss Awareness Day, and the birthday of Future Food Institute, which was established on 09/30/2014. We enter our 10th year today: the feeling is of new journals on which…

With “Trame Mediterranee” (Mediterranean Woven Tales), TRED’s students in Pollica. — Since 1999, every year, August 12 has been International Youth Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly to call on the world to implement policies that help young people overcome increasingly complex challenges, to support them in this process, and above all to remind everyone of their (fundamental) role…

Among the seven countries and three continents examined in the “Seven Countries Study” (1958), a comparative study of dietary regimens, Ancel Keys elected Cilento as a privileged observatory to analyze the connection between food, lifestyle, and the curious concentration of centenarians that still exists today. There, in the lands that…

In 2017, the United Nations body that assesses scientific knowledge related to the world’s food security and nutrition, the High Level Panel of Experts of Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFR), sanctioned a definition of food systems still used by FAO. «All elements…

The term empowerment first appeared in the 1950s in some U.S. policy studies. The word indicates a set of actions and interventions aimed at strengthening the power of choice of individuals, increasing their possibilities and responsibilities, and improving their knowledge and skills. It is therefore not at all surprising that…