Alimentia Academy
This project was created with the aim of improving quality of life, spreading and making knowledge accessible to everyone about good, healthy and sustainable nutrition by providing society and our current food challenges with tools and solutions.
Basic information
Alimentia Academy seeks a sustainable, ecological and social gastronomic future and for this reason it collaborates with farmers, growers and producers in the primary sector. We value and promote local products and varieties and facilitate a marketing channel for the same.
Collaborating entities
The Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) is an independent organization established as a Consortium of four main research institutions: the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and University of Barcelona (UB), and receives support from the Government of Catalonia through its General Direction for Research. The centre is a multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to studying genetic factors which determine characters of interests in plants and farm animals. Basic research is conducted under scientific criteria of excellence and research towards the improvement of plants and animals used in the food industries.