Slow Food International

Menu For Change – Eat Local Challenge: let’s do this!

Today is World Food Day, the anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO. We’re celebrating the event with the launch of a global, interactive call for us all to support our local farmers and food producers, cut down on imports and cook with local ingredients.

Overthrow the market! Choose wisely, and don’t waste!

The current food system puts a useless and unsustainable pressure on the most important finite natural resources. If we stop to think, the same producers are forced to waste, victims of a market that doesn’t respect the timescales of nature, but in doing so they are causing massive and irreversible damage to the soil, the climate and biodiversity.

Petrini to G7 ministers: ‘We must set up a Food Ministry and activate effective international cooperation policies.’

Agriculture has and will play a decisive role in the future of humanity: in its capacity to address the challenges of the years to come and ensure life—worthy or otherwise—to all its members, and in its prospects of either living in harmony with the environment or of destroying our common home.

World Food Day: Global hunger is on the rise, but not in the news

The alarm bell was set ringing by the FAO-IFAD-WFP 2017 report on the state of food security, which for the first time in ten years certifies a dramatic trend reversal.