Healthy Food, Happy Children in Fundão (PT)
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The municipality of Fundão bets on short circuits of commercialization for food to promote children’s health. Thanks to the AGRI-URBAN project , the...
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Healthy Food, Happy Children in Fundão (PT)
The municipality of Fundão bets on short circuits of commercialization for food to promote children’s health. Thanks to the AGRI-URBAN project , the...
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A growing global movement recognizes that the current complexity of food systems based on economies of scale is causing economical, societal and...