If we look into the future of our current food system, it is expected we will be facing a lot of challenges on a global level. The inconvenient truth is that our food system is deeply inequitable, food is wasted or lost by the masses, the carbon footprint of agricultural and food related business …
“How can we feed a growing world population in a sustainable and healthy way?” That’s the leading question the province of Vlaams-Brabant, Rikolto, University of Leuven and University College UCLL and Colruyt Group are trying to answer in the project ‘Wanted: Food for the Future’. One answer is to create sustainable food chains from …
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Henceforth the project Wanted: Food for the Future is recognised by UN Environment as an affiliated project of the 10 YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme. We received this recognition for our substantial contribution to the SFS programme goals.
The Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) programme is a framework of 10 years that aims to develop …
At the beginning of March three marketing students of the University-College UCLL began working for Wanted: Food for the Future. Julien, Kelly and Lauren will further develop the Food Lab and how it could be used to reach out to a larger audience, and how it could help provide a platform for debate with …
Wanted: Food for the Future has a new addition. Renske Krimpenfort, student at the University of Leuven, will become our new event planner. Her responsibilities include crossing Flanders in our mobile Food Lab. It is part of our strategy to reach out to as many people as possible and offer them a taste of …
On December 6, 2017, our project ‘Wanted: Food for the Future’ won the Sustainable Partnerships Award of The Shift (the Belgian sustainability network). The award showcases the best examples of international collaboration between the public sector, companies and non-profit organizations. Our project combines the expertise of the Flemish Brabant province, Rikolto (previously known as …
Graduate nutritionist and dietitian students of the UCLL in Leuven have begun their search for the food of the future. More specifically, in the course Industrial Food Production the students started experimenting with different types of seaweed, and researching which ones can be useful as an ingredient for innovative and tasty food. Everything has …
Our food needs to become more sustainable. But how do you make this message appealing for youth? The province of Vlaams-Brabant, the Colruyt Group, KU Leuven and Vredeseilanden challenged three students marketing from the UCLL, which resulted in the creation of a mobile Food Lab.
During Paradise City (23-25 June) they provided the Paradise City …
