Future Food LexiconLab || Food Advocacy at G7 Agriculture in Italy
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When storytellers and food for good advocates share their voices at G7 Agriculture in Italy
Reggio Emilia | Bergamo | Bologna, Italy
Over the last weeks, i have been mentioning quite a lot a special project I am working on for the G7 Agriculture in Bergamo, on storytelling and food for good advocacy. So here you can get a sneak peek of the Future Food LEXICONlab I am participating in at the moment !
“Words without meaning are just letters, floating in space. But when you understand words, when learn their meaning and see the people behind them, you discover their links to other ideas. Other words. Words that may change your life. ”
What is it?
The Future Food LexiconLab gathers storytellers and food activists from all around the globe for an intensive bootcamp that will craft the vision of a more inclusive, regenerative food system. The program, presented by The Future Food Institute (FFI) and Lexicon of Sustainability, features passionate communicators from three interdependent spheres: Agricoltura, or how the agricultural system works and how it could be improved by the latest innovations; Alimentum, or how a healthy and balanced diet affects ourselves; or Ambiens, or how the environment is shaped by our choices of food production and consumption.
The first two weeks of the bootcamp take part in the Italian Food Valley, between Reggio Emilia, Parma and Bologna. Participants will move to Bergamo on the third week to take part at the four thematic task tables of the G7 Agriculture: Food Tomorrow, Digital Food, Food Care and Food Governance.
The exhibition at the G7 Agriculture
The bootcamp’s climax is the exhibition of information artworks on food heroes and innovators that premieres at the Agriculture G7 in Bergamo and the Bologna Sustainability and Food International Award. We will make public presentations of our work and share ideas with policy makers and the global audience.
We are currently preparing a selection of incredible stories coming from every corner of the world !
The Future Food Institute
Future Food is an entire ecosystem that uses food innovation as a key tool to tackle the great challenges of the future, through connecting with the world while promoting the local territory.
This comprehensive ecosystem centers around education, the Future Food Institute Trust, through its precious global partnerships, the Food Innovation Program and the numerous international training projects, provides a true platform of positive cross-pollination and continuous inspiration.
The Lexicon of Sustainability
The Lexicon of Food is an online encyclopaedia that unmasks the true meaning of sustainable food, term by term. Set up by those who brought us the Lexicon of Sustainability, it encourages us to learn about who makes our food, what’s in it and how it reaches our plate, so we can all take part in transforming the food system.
Douglas Gayeton and Laura Howard-Gayeton founded the Lexicon in 2009 and continue to guide the project from a series of barns on their goat farm near Petaluma, California, where they are supported by an amazing team of passionate lexicographers, researchers, artists, filmmakers and Sustainability experts.
The G7 Forum
The G7 is a forum for dialogue at the highest level attended by the leaders of the world’s most important industrially advanced democracies. Its chief features are the intergovernmental nature of the preparatory process and its informality, which makes it easier for the leaders to discuss the world’s major issues and to rapidly devise and agree on solutions to them. Given that it is not an international organization, it is devoid of any kind of administrative structure or permanent secretariat.
The Presidency is held by each of the member countries in turn. The European Union attends the G7 but neither chairs nor hosts Summits.
The Bologna Sustainability and Food International Award
To feed a population that - at the end of the century - could reach 11 billion people is the real challenge of the planet. In line with it, the Bologna Award for Sustainability and Food supports projects that sustain scientific and technological research on agro-food sustainability, improve and optimize the distribution of food, reduce the environmental and social impacts of food production and distribution and promote a new and widespread culture in the field of food education.