Posts tagged TLFIX
Networks, Labs, and Entrepreneurship - from The Chef’s Good Food Handbook
Networks, Labs, and Entrepreneurship - from The Chef’s Good Food Handbook

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Timor-Leste Food Lab

Building upon their establishment of Slow Food Dili—the capital of Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor—in 2015, Alva Lim and Mark Notaras co-founded the Timor- Leste Food Lab in 2016. The Food Lab is a social enterprise funded entirely by a plant-forward partner restaurant and cafe, Agora Food Studio. Both aspire to shape a truly sustainable food system in Timor-Leste based on the production and consumption of nutritious, local foods. The restaurant focuses on using seasonal, plant-based ingredients, maintaining minimal waste, and reviving indigenous knowledge. They source 90% of their ingredients from smallscale farmers and local markets.

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TLFIXJuan Andres MussiniTLFIX
Restoring Traditional Food Culture for Better Food Security in the Pacific
Restoring Traditional Food Culture for Better Food Security in the Pacific

Traditional foods of the Pacific are vanishing, leading to disastrous but preventable public health consequences for indigenous populations. The region suffers from the highest rates of obesity in the world, while paradoxically also facing a double burden of chronic malnutrition.

Two inventive new food programs in the Pacific are fighting the public health crisis by addressing both informational and sociocultural barriers. Despite a similar holistic approach, each takes a different path to achieve results.

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TLFIXJuan Andres MussiniTLFIX
ABOUT TLFIX
ABOUT TLFIX

Timor-Leste Food Innovators Exchange (TLFIX) is an interactive platform for food innovators exchange between leading Timorese chefs, youths, entrepreneurs and community leaders to collectively raise public awareness about the availability and value of nutritious local foods.

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TLFIXAlva LimTLFIX, InnovationXchange, DFAT