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Lia Orr wins this year's Science Slam at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). In competition with a total of five candidates, Lia Orr came out on top with her presentation on 'Food for Thought - The childhood dream of an apple and how the scientist helped' on 20.01.23 and won this…

A new project entitled the BrightSpace Project funded under Horizon Europe is launched to design a roadmap for effective and sustainable strategies for assessing and addressing the challenges of EU agriculture to navigate within a Safe and Just Operating Space.

The working groups "Food waste", "Community catering in municipal day-care centres and schools", "Contacts with local producers and local FoodCoops", "Edible city", "Nutrition education" and "Further development of structures and guidelines" are starting now.

Ziel: mehr gesunde und klimaverträgliche Nahrungsmittel

Wie sich durch eine Umgestaltung der globalen Agrarsubventionen eine gesündere und klimafreundlichere Landwirtschaft entwickeln lässt, haben Wissenschaftler der Universität Oxford und des Braunschweiger Thünen-Instituts untersucht. Die…

Großartige Auszeichnung für Annika Thies und Rebecca Derstappen: Beide wurden während des Deutschen Fleisch-Kongresses in Mainz mit dem „Förderpreis der Fleischwirtschaft“ ausgezeichnet

Our call for scientific articles on national strategies against food loss and waste has been well received internationally. The articles in the special issue of the journal Sustainability are now publicly available.

In cooperation with Italy, the 5th regional workshop in the framework of the Thünen-coordinated MACS-G20 initiative against food waste took place online.

The UN Food Systems Summit on 23 September 2021 is the culmination of an intensive and inclu-sive discussion process on concrete changes to our global food system. Over the past 18 months, there has been a wide range of debates and forums that have united all member countries of the United Nations…

The kick-off meeting of the EU project Trade4SD took place on 15 June. In Trade4SD, the Thünen Institute, together with an international consortium, will develop proposals for a more sustainability-oriented agricultural trade policy.

For the 4th time a regional workshop took place within the framework of the Thünen-coordinated Collaboration Initiative Food Loss and Waste launched at MACS-G20. On October 15th, 2020, Thünen Institute together with the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) organised an event…