There is wide evidence that a correct diet is a source of health and longevity, although socioeconomic changes have led many people to eat poorly with serious risks and long-term costs. Hence, the convenience of returning to traditional food, simpler and healthier, but in danger of being lost due to the change in nutritional habits fostered by globalisation, is paramount.
Online platform for knowledge and training on traditional healthy food, available in 5 languages.
Repository of ancestral knowledge about native foods, crops, techniques of treatment and conservation.
Set of 10 courses at two levels (basic and advanced) on healthy eating based on natural and nearby foods.
Development of mainstreaming guidelines to promote the uptake of project results and products.
Canal Central, a multiplatform television channel in Aveiro, hosted on the 6th December the first of a series of programs on FairFood. Ana Ribeiro from AEVA - Association for the Education and Valorization of Aveiro Region, and José Graça, from Fundão Profissional School, were invited of a conversati...
FairFood took part in a mycological expedition organized by the Municipality of Arouca and integrated in the Chestnut Festivities.
Under the guidance of Engineer José Pais, an expert in this field, participants were taught how to discover and identify mushrooms in the forest, from the eatable to th...
VERAKIS, leader in mediation and popularization of scientific knowledge and consulting services in the food sector, invited Claudia Santos, coordinator of FairFood in Portugal, to present the project to students of the International Specialization in Entrepreneurship and Food Marketing.
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Fairfood accompanied the maize harvest day with a family from Sever do Vouga, in the center of Portugal. Everyone works hard to pick up the maximum amount of cobs, singing and laughing, snacking childhood flavors, carefully storing the corn in the wood and stone haystacks known as ‘palheiros’, and pa...
