Blog – Proceeds

20th May 2020 30 0

Global supply chains: A COVID-19 symptomatic patient

Akis Bimpizas, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK (m.bimpizas-pinis@sheffield.ac.uk) Prof. Andrea Genovese, Management School, University of Sheffield...

9th February 2020 62 0

INTA Seconded at UPN

During my visit at the University of Parthenope (Naples), I was involved in a project related to Argentina’s trade and how the natural resources involved can be...

23rd January 2020 91 0

USFD@INTA – An international journey

Javier Gutierrez, who is completing a three-month secondment in Argentina, hosted by Dr Gloria Rotolo at INTA, writes about his experience: “I am grateful for...

23rd January 2020 165 0

USFD in secondment to Agritalia

Last November, Karla Ileana Tun Gongora, PhD student at Sheffield University Management School completed one-month secondment to Agrit in the city of Naples, Italy...

4th October 2019 187 7

Let’s ReThink our attitude!

Text by Felipe Alexandre de Lima & Jayani Ishara Sudusinghe Aquarelle by Felipe Alexandre de Lima It’s worldwide recognized that the current “take-make-dispose”...

16th September 2019 129 1

Organic waste: Biobased circularity

Municipal solid waste and in particular organic waste are globally generated in large quantities from various sectors including different stages of the food supply...

6th September 2019 94 2

Why can’t we live circular?

For billions of years we have had life on our planet, but no species had such a catastrophic effect on life on the planet as humans now have. And that is for one...

8th August 2019 127 1

EU announces new investment in CE

European Union’s (EU) priority is to achieve a greener and smarter Europe. The circular economy (CE) has been regarded as a powerful tool to reduce environmental...

27th July 2019 290 4

The CE vs Growth dilemma

The current linear economy has been strongly challenged in recent years regarding its merely focus on economic growth in spite of the resulting environmental...

15th July 2019 166 3

Circular Economy and the 6 REs

The idea behind the Circular Economy is that we stop discarding what we consider waste until we reach a society that doesn’t heap up waste at all. But what...

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