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INTERVIEW: Gert Noordhoff From De Graanrepubliek
21 March 2017Back to the grain! And bring back colour into our landscapes! This is Gert Noordhoff’s main message. Together with his father, he runs an arable farm in Bellingwolde in the north of the Netherlands, i…
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Island Specialties - a terroir in Danish
21 March 2017EU-approved regional brand protections have never been widely used in Danish food production. For cultural and geographical reasons, it is difficult to apply a Southern European model for a durable te…
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Research at wholesale HANOS
21 March 2017A large portion of the exploratory research that is part of the REFRAME-project here in Groningen is researching the demand of local customers in the city. We collaborated with HANOS to research the d…
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Visiting a dairy farm in Sweden
06 February 2017Dairy farmers in West Sweden face the same profitability problems as many other dairy farmers in Europe due to the low prices for milk that the dairy industry pays. As a consequence many farmers have …
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Going Local-seminar
06 February 2017On January 26th, the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in the city of Groningen organized a seminar ‘Going Local’ for local procurement. During an enthusiastic lecture by Mr. Willem Foorth…
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First mapping results available
06 February 2017During and after the REFRAME kick-off (Foodweek in September 2016), hundreds of students collected information from regional producers, processors and transporters of food. They also visited diverse l…
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Partnermeeting in Oldenburg
06 February 2017Transnational cooperation is essential for the success of the Reframe project. We want and need to learn from each other, share experiences and discuss challenges. Of course this happens in the freque…
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Green Pepper Award
29 November 2016The first Green Pepper Award was handed out to ‘Wortel van Vier’, a take-away-restaurant that prepares food that would otherwise have been thrown away by local supermarkets. The award is an idea of t…
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Expertmeeting food in social domain
25 November 2016On Wednesday the 29th of September, Groningen organised an expert meeting regarding Food in the Social Domain. The topics included exploring the ways food permeates and can influence how we work, eat,…
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An update about the research
25 November 2016After a couple of exploratory meetings, the framework was finally set to give the ReFrame-research in Groningen the so-called green light! This green light was given at the start of Foodweek, which in…
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