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Use pandemic to repair broken EU and UK food system says new report 4 A new report has urged the EU food industry to use the pandemic to repair what it has called a broken food system, with food waste and nutrition being high on the agenda. European food systems must move on from simply feeding people to allowing consumers to nourish themselves sustainably and healthily, according to a new report. An assessment of the 27 EU countries plus the UK highlighted four areas of transformation needed ...

Contract: 2 years (renewable) Positioning and reporting Under the authority of the Deputy Director General (International Standards and Science) and the supervision of the Head of Department (HoD). Job purpose The Scientific Coordinator in the Antimicrobial Resistance and Veterinary Products (AMR & VP) Department contributes to the scientific excellence of the Organisation’s work in support of the responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials and the quality of veterinary products, The Scient...

Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 March 2021 Today, the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development called on governments, economic and social stakeholders, and international organizations to rethink their broad policy priorities, to step up investments and reforms in health- and social-care systems, and to upgrade global governance of public goods, such as health and the environment. Unless all 3 efforts are vigorously pursued, it is unlikely that the world can avoid new, devastating p...

The Experi​​​​​​​ment The Jena Experiment is a long-term biodiversity focused research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The large scale project has been running since 2002 and involves over 100 scientists. The research is centred around discovering which mechanisms influence ecosystem functions and make them stable. The project takes place on a 10 hectare site in Jena, Germany – which consists of approximately 600 plots of artificially assembled grasslands...

(1) LONDON, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Design for Sustainable Cities is an international student competition held by BE OPEN and Cumulus in support of SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. Its objective is to recognize and promote top design projects developed by the younger creative generation that are able to tackle the tasks set by the United Nations SDG Programme. The competition is open to students and graduates of all art, design, architecture and media disciplines of universities...

2020 will be remembered as a year of many challenges, but it will also seen perhaps as a turning point for the maker movement—a series of conditions that helped crystallize and accelerate distinct processes, networks, and making into new forms; into a state the collaborators of this book have called, “a living laboratory.” The lasting impact of such changes remain to be seen, but it is clear that for the global community of makers, designers, technologists, scientists, and creative experi...