Changing the system is possible: why not start from the first economic sector?
There is a need to move from the one-time best practices to a system change that involves all the stakeholders in the agri-food chain.
There is a need to move from the one-time best practices to a system change that involves all the stakeholders in the agri-food chain.
How early Franciscan economic thought anticipated the debate on the paradox of malnutrition.
As editors of the Contemporary Challenges section of the EoF ProView, we envisioned starting this section with something more positive, but given the extraordinary situation facing Ukraine in the sad reality we live in these days, inevitably this brings us to adjust our plans.
No matter how many times you hear about child labor, exploitation, abuse, you never bring to consciousness how bad it really is and how much you are part of the problem.
The vast agri-food chain is the leading economic sector in Italy in terms of revenues. But it is based on a system of exploitation that is unsustainable for humans and the environment. How can we reverse this trend, moving from good practices to a real transformation of the system?
The Economy of Francesco School is a global educational pathway that began in 2021 and is now in its second year. Re-thinking the science of economics is not an easy task; desiring to do it by 'listening to the plants', seems ambitious.
In this short column on the recent Netflix blockbuster Don’t Look Up, Mateusz Ciasnocha – a participant of The Economy of Francesco from Poland and a Co-Leader of The Farm of Francesco project born within The Economy of Francesco – reflects on the movie and shares his three insights that emerged after watching and reflecting on the film with the EoF Community.
Economic inequality is one of the most frequently mentioned forms of inequality and it is what is mainly included in the most recent Oxfam report.