Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             A new project to unite youth in the name of good, clean and fair food 10 Nov 07 - Sloweb Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the food movement today is being done by people under the age of twenty-five. University students are changing the food served in their cafeterias, and growing food on their campus greens and local communities. In order to highlight the work being accomplished by youth around the country, and to inspire international Slow Food leaders to bring these models for youth engagement back to their home countries, a group of students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy along with the Youth Food Movement delegation of Slow Food USA, presented a proposal to form an international student network at the Fifth International Slow Food Congress. The University of Gastronomic Sciences, which is in its forth year since being founded in 2003, now hosts 28 nationalities within its student body of roughly 250 students. The University, represented by 13 of those nationalities at the congress, expressed that their experiences traveling and studying together have allowed them to gain unique insight into their own cultural differences and the fundamental issues that unite them. The Slow Food USA Youth Food Movement delegation, which comprised of an energetic group of youth leaders and activist, presented the success of the Slow Food on Campus Program based within university campuses and some of the interesting projects that have benefited positively in changing the food systems within their local and national community. The two groups united to join forces in forming a global network with their fellow students around the globe– to promote and academic discourse and share resources and experiences – in an effort to promote food production and consumption that is good, clean, and fair. These three criteria, they explain, are important for the social and environmental justice for all food systems. Building on the enthusiam of the two groups, the students outlined some of their key goals for making this project a reality. Encourage Slow Food convivia to involve youth in their activities and increase youth membership Develop university-based convivia around the world. Invest in young farmers: particularly in opportunities for exchange and education involving the University of Gastronomic Sciences, other universities and young farmers and to develop active working relationship with Terra Madre communities. Integrate students and young people into various levels of Slow Food leadership, with the aim of having a youth representative in each national board. Create new methods of communication and engagement centered around the international youth food movement.   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     Italy - 05 Feb 10     Pasta Madre     Farmers, academics, researchers, and members of the public will gather in Bologna this weekend as the city becomes host to Pasta Madre, Slow Food's two-day event focusing on bread, pasta...           News archive     France - 04 Feb 10     Europe Edges Towards Bluefin Ban     France announces their support for trade ban on blufin tune caught in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. ...     China - 03 Feb 10     China Considers Dog and Cat Meat Ban     Defenders of traditional cuisine and animal rights activists battle over potential ban on eating dog and cat meat in China ...     Paraguay - 01 Feb 10     Greenwashing for Beef Land     A Brazilian cattle-ranching company has been exposed for illegally bulldozing land belonging to a native tribe in Paraguay ...     Turkey - 29 Jan 10     First Slow Cities in Turkey and USA     New Slow Cities on the Californian and Ageana Coastlines ...     United States - 28 Jan 10     Freedom Food     Prisons launch grow-your-own schemes for inmates ...     Australia - 26 Jan 10     Slow Australians Awarded     Second-longest Australian Slow Food member named a Australian of the Year 2010 ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab