Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             Biodiversity and Business 04 Oct 07 - Sloweb Speaking in an interview to Reuters yesterday, Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva, a former rubber tapper and activist, claimed that Brazil has achieved a 50 percent reduction in deforestation over the past two years, thus proving that its increased control mechanisms are working. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration has set itself a target of zero illegal deforestation, albeit without a specific deadline. Marina Silva argues that, in the name of ethics and solidarity, besides making voluntary donations, foreign countries should also help create alternative economic activities in tropical forests, rejecting eco-unfriendly products, transferring technology and remunerating genetic research and natives' knowledge. A proposal co-authored by Brazil as part of the International Convention on Biodiversity is designed to force pharmaceutical companies to pay for drugs based on Amazon medicinal plants has been opposed by a number of western countries, but Silva believes that the wealthy countries in general should pay for Amazonian biodiversity. Source: Planet Ark www.planetark.com/   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     United States - 01 Sep 10     Eataly in New York     The philosophy and campaigns promoted by Slow Food over the past twenty years to strengthen regional, tasty and sustainable food, and reconnect consumers with the origin of their food, have...           News archive     Brazil - 17 Aug 10     Gastromotiva     Terra Madre chef and Slow Food convivium empower disadvantaged youth to enter culinary careers ...     Russia - 16 Aug 10     Biodiversity Hangs in the Balance     Slow Food joins the protest against destruction of Europe’s largest repository of rare fruit ...     United Kingdom - 13 Aug 10     Food Justice     Slow Food UK praises social justice report’s call for action ...     Philippines - 10 Aug 10     Against the Grain     The Indigenous Taguibong people in the Philippines continue to practice the traditional rice threshing and milling methods of their ancestors ...     Georgia - 05 Aug 10     Meeting in the Birthplace of the Vine     First Terra Madre Georgia held with a focus on wine and small producers ...     Italy - 03 Aug 10     Strengthening the Indigenous Voice     Slow Food enters into a partnership to advocate for indigenous groups around the world ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab