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Influencing behavioral change through effective communication strategies
01 March 2019The REFRAME project aims at establishing regional cooperative arrangements between regional suppliers and large-scale consumers. At the moment, however, regionally produced food is only a small part o…
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Danish legislation on small-scale local food production and sale
22 February 2019As a major food exporting nation, Denmark has a long record of developing legislation-based regulation of farming and food production for the purposes of controlling diseases in husbandry, animal welf…
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Dorpstuun: a multifunctional green meeting place
12 February 2019The green meeting place where a flower/picking/ experience/learning/school/vegetable/ folk/butterfly/bee and moving garden come together. The garden is used as a means of improving the quality of life…
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Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
17 January 2019On January 16th, 37 renowned scientist and experts from sixteen countries published an article about their report in the medical journal The Lancet: Food in the Antropocene, a comprehensive analysis o…
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Promoting local food products in an urban environment
10 January 2019In 2018, master student Sara Smaal graduated at the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research with her master thesis on relationships between urban restaurants and local suppliers and ways i…
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Fourth Reframe Report: general overview of our progress
06 January 2019This period the Reframe project picked up speed and is delivering results. The Reframe project started with the ambition to re-connect regional food production with urban demand, to stimulate SMEs to …
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Healthy and sustainable food in institutional kitchens
31 December 2018Purchasing products from smaller and more local producers is still a challenge for institutional kitchens. However, hospital AZ Zeno and hotel school Ter Groene Poorte prove that it is possible.
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Where does your Christmas Dinner come from?
18 December 2018Have you thought about where the products for your Christmas dinner come from? Many of the products which you can find in the supermarkets have travelled thousands of kilometers before ending up on yo…
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How to meet increasing demand for vegetables
17 December 2018The demand for locally produced vegetables, fruits and berries is increasing in Sweden. In November 2018 representatives of the Swedish vegetable industry met together with producers and organizations…
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Challenges for local potato production
26 November 2018In 2016 west Sweden used approximately 2,300 hectares of farmland for potato production. That corresponds to around 13% of Sweden’s total production of ware potatoes. Today there is a trend towards a …
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