The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security: Global Challenges, Local Solutions and Connected Pathways took place between 3-6 December 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The convenors of the conference were Elsevier in association with the DST-NRF Centre of...
TECA is a platform for learning about and exchanging information on agricultural technologies and practices that has been developed by the FAO, one of the partners in SALSA. One part of this platform, the SALSA Exchange Group, is dedicated to the SALSA project. In...
SALSA research teams have carried out in-depth assessments of regional food systems across Europe and Africa. The aim of this exercise was to come to a better understanding of the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to a secure and nutritious food...
25 European reference regions have now been selected for the empirical analyses in SALSA. In the process, the results of the European small farms mapping and cluster analysis were combined with the EDORA structural types. The combination of both data sets was to...
A European map produced in the SALSA project shows the distribution of small farms at the NUTS-3 level. The map was developed through a stepwise approach that combined diverse datasets and information gathered from key experts. For more detailed information on this...
Food systems are complex and diverse, consisting of a very large number of interrelated activities and actors. In essence, food systems contain four organisational areas: the production, the processing, the distribution and the consumption of food (Ingram, 2011)....
