• Il futuro si può prevedere? Qualche risposta (parziale) in una conferenza organizzata dal Lions Club Valdelsa il 23 ottobre
Mi è stata affidata la trattazione del tema “Immaginare il futuro” in occasione del primo “incontro ravvicinato” organizzato dal Lions Club Valdelsa, che si terrà sabato 23 ottobre 2021 alle ore 17. Il sottotitolo della mia relazione chiarisce che parlerò di...
• Why bringing ancient traditional foods back to life
Is it possible to create of a «regionally oriented food industry», capable of rediscovering ancient traditional foods (PATs), processing them without losing the original taste, and taking them to the market? I suggest that this is the only way to establish a different...
• «Healthy foods»: A webinar to explore the evolution of consumption trends
Interested in knowing more about «healthy food trends»? A free webinar will take place on Tuesday 5th of April (2pm Rome time), targeted at Food Sector SME's and Start-ups, and a part of a European project funded by the Atlantic Area Programme; AHFES. Three experts...
• An anthropological approach to the future of food after Covid-19
I am happy to announce that my article "The future of food after COVID-19 through the lens of anthropology" has just been published on the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. This commentary uses the lens of anthropology to imagine the...
• The World after Covid-19 (Part 3)
The Future of Food: Megatrend versus Covid-19 After discussing briefly the visions of two influent thinkers (a futurologist and an historian) and then using a mind map to draw a scenario based on our available knowledge, I am now going to present here another tool...
• The World after Covid-19 (Part 2)
What should we expect? From intuition to long-term scenario building This is the second of four articles on long-term scenarios. My purpose is to help entrepreneurs, investors and interested citizens to answer the question “how the world will look like after...
• On the Future of Food Studies
A mind map exercise conducted at the Food and Drink Studies Summer School (IEHCA) of Tours (FR) This summer I had the pleasure to be part of a group of 5 IEHCA scholars called upon to draw a mind map of both present and future of Food Studies. It is not an easy task...
• Food and the evolution of life
Jonathan Silvertown Dinner with Darwin Chicago, 2017 This is a book pertaining to the new class of gastro-biology. The Author takes us in a journey through evolution: of mankind, from vegetarian apes to omnivorous bipeds; of animals and plants which we decided to...
• The future is a thorny issue
Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus London 2015 During my first visit to Israel in the spring of 2015, I desperately wanted to meet with Prof. Harari after reading his Sapiens. From Animals into God: A Brief History of Humankind and falling in love with this powerful,...
• Scenario 2030: a training and a consulting experience
I want to present the new “Scenarios Series” by Finanza Futura. This is a special training plus a consulting experience offered to medium and large companies’ management teams. Only half a day, to stop business as usual and start thinking about the future ahead. I...