The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, along with the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, launched the Global Food Ethics Project to take on the challenge of working through conflicting visions of what it means to feed the world ethically and find a concrete path forward even in the absence of consensus about ethical commitments and values.

The main product of the first phase of the Global Food Ethics project is the 7 by 5 Agenda for Ethics and Global Food Security.
We are happy to share with you the efforts of a collaborative meeting Prof Capri took part in last year. Our international working group was given the task to establish a near term research and policy agenda for global food ethics that that would make a significant, practical contribution to global food security.

The report includes seven global food ethics projects we deemed particularly worthy of investment because of their importance and tractability

The report “Bee Health in Europe – facts and figures” moves from the newest data from scientific research into drivers of bee health and presents the latest figures in the trend in bee population and reports initiatives and policies being developed in Europe and abroad.

OPERA Research Centre and the Industry Association for Plant Protection of Spain (AEPLA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment of Spain co-organized in Madrid the workshop entitled “Workshop on the Directive for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides in Spain”. This stakeholder workshop gathered up to 70 representatives from National Authorities, different associations, the private sector and NGOs.

OPERA has been invited to participate to the Meeting on the Science of sustainability (SSI 2011) organised by the CIRPS (the research centre of the Università Sapienza of Rome) from the 20 to the 23 February 2011 in Valmontone (Italy).