“The other half of food, the Vademecum for a #nowaste restaurant” was presented in Milan, as part of Host, the international hospitality fair. It is a practical tool born from the collaboration of METRO Italia with APCI (Professional Association of Italian Chefs), Banco Alimentare, the SuM Laboratory  _ Sustainability Management _ of the Institute of Management of the Sant'Anna School (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) and with the support of on. Maria Chiara Gadda, promoter of law 166/2016, created to reduce waste along the agri-food chain

The crop genetics team at Sant’Anna Shool keeps collaborating with Ethiopian smallholder farmers to explore new paths to crop breeding for local adaptation. In a new study recently just published in Communications Biology, the Sant’Anna team worked with international institutions and with 1.165 local farmers demonstrating that farmers’ traditional knowledge can be combined with genomic and climatic data to increase the genetic gain associated to prediction accuracy of wheat performance in challenging farming conditions

Since the end of 2020, appalling atrocities are being committed against civilians in the Ethiopian region of Tigray and beyond. The Sant’Anna School, together with the NGO United Against Inhumanity and in co-operation with the press agency DIRE, is organizing a public debate. Speakers will include academics and humanitarian practitioners with a specific expertise on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. The event will take place in Rome, at the press room of DIRE (Corso d’Italia 38 a) on 26 October 2021, starting at 5 pm