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Agriculture
It’s never too late to do the right thing
European Sustainable Development Week encourages us, individually and collectively, to take concrete...
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The Louis Bonduelle Foundation Award rewards solidarity through blockchain
On Friday 20 May, Davide Devenuto received the new ‘Louis Bonduelle Foundation Award’ at a ceremony ...
Agriculture
How eating can take off or add years to our life
Driven by health and environmental concerns, an increasing number of people are adopting a more plan...
Agriculture
How to eat more plant-based food in just 30 days
One month, one challenge: eat more plant-based food, effortlessly. Shopping, taste, preparation… we’...
Agriculture
2021 | A snapshot of key achievements
Rich and inspiring: this is how we would describe 2021. With a wealth of information on the transiti...
Agriculture
Taking action for more sustainable food systems
The food we choose and the way we consume are critical for the necessary transformation towards a mo...
Agriculture
What can we do to preserve biodiversity?
Biodiversity is a major issue in our society today. Aquatic and terrestrial life are essential to hu...
Agriculture
Sustainable food for human health and the health of the planet
Human health, responsible consumption and the fight against climate change go hand in hand with sust...
Agriculture
Sustainable development: what everyday actions can you take?
For this year’s European Sustainable Development Week, we suggest concrete solutions for everyday ac...
Agriculture
The food transition is a priority for our civilisation!
“We are destroying civilisation; our food system has to change; and solutions do exist.” This is the...
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Latest update on the nutrition transition #5
Each month, we give you an overview of the news around the food and environmental transition. You wi...
Agriculture
Why is 2021 the year of fruits and vegetables?
The International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV) is the first of its kind. It focuses attentio...
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Latest update on the nutrition transition #2
The nutrition transition transforms food systems globally and shapes public health and environmental...
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Latest update on the nutrition transition #4
Each month, we give you an overview of the news around the food and environmental transition. You wi...
Agriculture
What agriculture for more sustainable food?
How is agriculture evolving to become more sustainable? How can we make vegetables more accessible t...
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Latest update on the nutrition transition #3
Each month, we give you an overview of the news around the food and environmental transition. You wi...
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A nutrition education project against childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is gaining ground, both in developed and developing countries. In Romania, the abs...
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Latest update on the nutrition transition #2
Chaque mois, nous vous donnons un aperçu des nouvelles autour de la transition alimentaire et enviro...
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The latest update on environmental and nutrition transition
Chaque mois, nous vous donnons un aperçu des nouvelles autour de la transition alimentaire et enviro...
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A plant-based culinary festival against obesity in Russia
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation has joined forces with the “League of Dreams” to organise a culinary ...
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How to switch to a sustainable diet
Sustainable food is a global challenge, but it is also within everyone’s reach! With some common sen...
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White paper: plant-based food, a major global challenge
All the data seem to indicate that we definitely need to evolve towards a more plant-based diet, bot...
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Towards a more plant-based diet with 3 winning projects
The international Louis Bonduelle Foundation’s call for proposals has become a support facility for ...
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Unlockdown: an opportunity to sustainably change our eating habits
In three years, 68% of young adults have changed their eating habits (1): less meat, more vegetables...
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The overconsumption of sugar and environmental issues
Catherine Lefebvre explained how we came to exploit nature and food....
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Vision of Quebec as a food-producing land
Hugo Martorell, a healthy food and sustainable agriculture consultant explained how Quebec stands ou...
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Plant-based diet: Good for your health and good for the planet
Marjolaine Mercier and Anne-Marie Roy explained why Canada’s Food Guide focuses on plants....
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What will we be eating tomorrow: why is there a trend towards plant-based foods?
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation Conference brought together a large panel of nutrition experts in Bru...
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Conference 2019: Interview with Christophe Bonduelle
On the occasion of the 12th edition of the Louis Bonduelle Conference, Christophe Bonduelle, Preside...
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Conference 2019: Interview with Guillaume Debrosse
Guillaume Debrosse, Chief Executive Officer of the Bonduelle Group, spoke at the 12th edition of the...
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Conference 2019: Interview with Armando Perez-Cueto
Armando Perez-Cueto is an associate professor at the Department of Food Science at the University of...
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Conference 2019: Interview with Benjamin Allès
Benjamin Allès is a nutritional epidemiologist and researcher at Université Paris 13. He reviews the...
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Conference 2019: Interviews with Laurence Depezay
The EPICALIM project aims to assess the impact of field actions on children’s consumption of vegetab...
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Conference 2019: Interview with Federica Barabino
The Giochi di inOrto project in Italy is a recreational and educational initiative created by the ...
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Conference 2019: Interview with Jacynthe Lafrenière
Jacynthe Lafrenière works at the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, and is a winner of the 2017 Lou...
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Conference 2019: Interviews with Wim de Vries
The Louis Bonduelle Conference was an opportunity for Wim de Vries, professor from the Department of...
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Conference 2019: Interviews with Catherine Lefebvre
As the event comes to a close, Catherine Lefebvre, chair of the 12th edition of the Louis Bonduelle ...
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A sustainable change in eating behaviours
Our mission is to sustainably change eating behaviours while safeguarding people and the planet. Thi...
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2019 CONFERENCE: 5 reasons to sign up now!
Registration for the Louis Bonduelle Foundation’s 2019 Conference is officially open. We will welcom...
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A role in the transition towards sustainable behaviour
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation aims to raise awareness among different audiences regarding sustainab...
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Plant-based diets are at the core of our mission
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation strives to improve eating behaviour through awareness and outreach in...
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Mobile and solidary cannery
The Community Center of Ors in the city of Romans-Sur-Isère (Drôme - France) has launched an initiat...
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Solidary picking by the economic interest group “Straw hat” at the Paradise Farm in Seclin
The 'Les Saveurs du Marché' solidarity grocery store, opened in November 2005 in Mons-En-Barœul, sup...
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Canada: Vegetable prices expected to rise 4% in 2019
Canada’s Food Price Report 2019 predicts an increase in food prices this year, in particular for veg...
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Urban farm of Blosnes (Rennes)
The urban farm of the district of Blosne (ubicated in Rennes, French city) will soon be installed on...
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The shared garden, ouort de Benevènt
The shared garden, Ouort de Benevènt (Ouort means garden in Provencal patois), was created in spring...
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The exhibition “Croc’Expo” about fruits and vegetables in Cité Nature (Arras) is extended
Croc'Expo is a unique and never-before-seen, fruits and vegetables exhibition in France. It is inten...
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The Légumothèque: A new teaching tool in the vegetable garden at Abbaye de Royaumont
The Légumothèque opened on May 28, 2017, expanding the nature discovery trails at Abbaye de Royaumon...
Agriculture
Vegetable gardens and nutrition awareness in Congo
In the Haut-Katanga province on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the "Bureau Salésien des Proje...
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Louis Bonduelle Research Award 2018
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation Research Award for 2018 has just been presented to Andrea Pallarès Pa...
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Towards agri-food education
With the Marguerite project, the geographer Julie Le Gall aims to raise awareness amongst adolescent...
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Community building in the city
Originally, the Potager du Roi was built at the request of Louis XIV for the purpose of displaying t...
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Urban farming: agriculture that makes sense
Contrary to the trendy bobo image it conveys, urban farming has a long history. Today this practice ...
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Urban farming, a showcase of modernity
Florent Quellier takes an historian’s look at the place of urban farming in society in Paris under t...
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Help city-dwellers reconnect with farmers
Urban farming is a means of reducing the dissociation that city-based consumers feel in their relati...
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Relive the 2018 Conference here!
You did not have the chance to participate in the latest Louis Bonduelle Foundation Conference that ...
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Cooking workshops: A fun way to discover fruits and vegetables
More than 60 children, aged three to six, recently took part in a range of workshops (cooking, sorti...
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“Manger vers le futur”, a social science fiction Instagram comic strip, is finally online!
The ANCA Chair’s project, which got the push it needed after a crowdfunding campaign, is finally onl...
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Nutrition education and taste discovery for children aged 6 to 10
The Rosendaël Community Center in Dunkirk (France) has set itself the goal of improving children’s h...
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Call for projects: give everyone access to vegetables
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation and Québec En Forme are working towards sustainable development in ea...
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The City & Agriculture: Reconciliation or Dissociation?
This year, the 11th Louis Bonduelle Conference will take place on 12 June, in a partnership with the...
Food waste
Food waste and good taste worshops by Freegan Pony
French association Freegan Pony has launched the Ateliers du Bon Goût (Good taste workshops) to rais...
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We’re celebrating Nutrition Month in Canada
In March, Dietitians of Canada celebrate Nutrition Month. Events include The Great Big Crunch organi...
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Ambitious healthy diet programme in Russian schools
Children’s low vegetable and fruit consumption is a major health issue in Russia. Since April 2017, ...
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Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Canada
A study commissioned by the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada reveals that nearly half of our dail...
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Meet us at the Journées Francophones de Nutrition
Join us in Nantes, from 13 to 15 December, at the Journées Francophones de Nutrition. This year, the...
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Where vegetables take priority!
The Madagascan Help for Sustainable Development Association has organized workshops with the aim of ...
Agriculture
Vegetables for everyone: call for projects 2017 is open!
Today, the Louis Bonduelle Foundation announced the exclusive publication of its call for projects f...
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Getting Little Ones Interested in Vegetables
An organization in Quebec City offers gardening and sensory workshops to get young children explorin...
Food waste
Picnic: zero-waste challenge for 200 children
In order to educate children about the role they play in reducing food waste and to help them discov...
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Maisonnette des Parents : Vegetable Gardens for Everyone
A Montreal organization creates vegetable gardens and offers cooking workshops to encourage children...
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Légumothèque: Observing and understanding the life cycle of edible plants: from seed to seed
The Légumothèque at Royaumont Abbey has been open to the public since the start of September thanks ...
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Pupils have fun growing their own vegetables!
Since the start of the 2016/2017 school year, the association Maison de la Nature et de l’Environnem...
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Discovery workshops on fruits and vegetables and environmental awareness for 90 pupils from France and Italy
The objective of the Franco-Italian foundation ELIC is to boost awareness, through educational work...
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Backstage: find out all about the #LBFconference
Every year, the Louis Bonduelle Foundation conference mobilises players involved in changes in dieta...
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French food culture: back to the future
What current issues are linked to the development of food guidelines in France? How does history sha...
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Canada: between food heritage and processed food
What factors are changing dietary behaviour and influencing eating habits in Canada? Two Canadian sp...
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Senegal: sensory awareness day on vegetable-themed culinary activities for street children
The Village Pilote association, a Franco-Senegalese NGO based in Senegal, works to reintegrate stree...
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Three public consultations for a Food Policy for Canada
The Government of Canada is asking Canadians to weigh in on the revision of its Food Guide and vario...
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A.N.D.E.S. UNITERRES: Bringing food aid and local farmers closer together
Since 2011, the Louis Bonduelle Foundation has been a partner to the Uniterres program run by the AN...
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Food, culture and sustainability at the #LBFconference
The 10th Louis Bonduelle Foundation Conference was held in the unique setting of the Bain Mathieu in...
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Food cultures: meeting our speakers…
This year, the 10th Louis Bonduelle Foundation Conference is to be held in Montreal, in the unique s...
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Fruit and vegetable consumption in Canada
Statistics Canada releases 2015 data on fruit and vegetable consumption among Canadians aged 12 and ...
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Caesars kitchen: taste workshops around fruits and vegetables
Children from primary school (CM1 & CM2) from the area of Nevers (France) take part to taste worksho...
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CROC’EXPO: An original and unique fruit and vegetable exhibition in France dedicated to children aged 3 to 12 years
From March 18, 2017 to October 7, 2018, come discover the new fruit and vegetable exhibition for chi...
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Nutrition Month 2017 Campaign in Canada
The objective of Nutrition Month 2017 is to encourage Canadians to put an end to their conflictual r...
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Find out the projects selected during the 2016 call for proposals
20 new projects supported by the Louis Bonduelle Foundation during the call for proposals launched i...
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Marketing in school cafeterias to increase vegetable uptake
A study by Hanks, Just and Brumberg published in July 2016 in the journal Pediatrics looks at the in...
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Videos to promote food education in school daycares
As part of the project Ensemble, pour des contextes de repas plus conviviaux (in French—Eating toget...
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Encouraging the cultivation of fruit- and nut-bearing trees!
The Edible Trees program is providing grants of up to $4,000 and resources to communities who develo...
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Vitamins: an essential part of our daily lives
During these cold months, fatigue sets in and we feel weaker, but there's nothing like vitamins to r...
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120 children discover the world of vegetables thanks to puppets
The association from Dijon (France), ÉVEIL O GOÛT (Taste Discovery) develops and runs educational se...
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Green Class: Urban agriculture project for 500 students aged 6 to 12
Last spring, 17 “Le Petit Collège” primary school classes in Ville LaSalle took part in an urban agr...
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Heavenly holiday dining packed with pulses!
As the year 2016, chosen as the International Year of Pulses by FAO, draws to a close, we bring you ...
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Change the perception of vegetables among pupils
256 pupils from intermediate and senior secondary schools aged from 8 to 18 years old, have discover...
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Come and see the Museum of fruits and vegetables!
Founded in 2010 near Avignon, Epicurium is a unique venue in Europe where people can explore fruits ...
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‘Art nature’ activity and cuisine in rural retirement homes
A new programme has been launched in collaboration with the Marpas, “Maison d’accueil rurale pour pe...
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How has nutrition changed over time?
Diets have changed from the dawn of humans to the present day. We now have different priorities and ...
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Results of a study on the eating habits of university students
Manger RUsé (Eat Smart), a project funded by the Louis Bonduelle Foundation during its call for proj...
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Grand Opening of a Therapeutic Kitchen in a Nursing Home
On Wednesday, 27 June 2012, the Avignon branch of the Comité des Blouses Roses (hospital volunteers ...
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Moringa oleifera, a leguminous plant to combat malnutrition
According to UNICEF, more than one in three children in Benin under the age of five show signs of ch...
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Growing vegetable gardens – a big hit among secondary school pupils?
Since 2006 at Alain Savary, a secondary school in Istres (France), Year 9 pupils enrolled in DPA (a ...