Slow Food International

International Day For Biological Diversity: Endangered Foods

The greatest hedge against food insecurity is not simply growing and raising more food, but building greater diversity and resilience in what we cultivate. This includes expanding beyond a standard diet where crops are bred for yield and environmental response (such as drought-tolerance or pest-resistance) to the reasons we actually favor one food over another—because of how they make us feel and how they taste.

Infographic: Slow Food and Biodiversity in numbers

Our projects are tools to promote a model of agriculture that is based on local biodiversity and respect for the land and the local culture in harmony with the environment and which aims to provide food sovereignty and access to good, clean and fair food for all communities. What have we achieved so far?

EVENTS

Slow Food Participates in the “Together Without Walls” March in Milan on May 20th

Carlo Petrini: “It is often desperation that takes millions of people out of their homes, embarking on a trip risking their lives. We want to ask ourselves: what is the origin of this desperation and what can we do as global citizens to relieve some of their suffering?”

NEWS

Italian Prime Minister Meets with Slow Food Great China

On May 15, as part of his official visit to China, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni met with the coordinators of Slow Food Great China that are now looking forward to the Slow Food International Congress. It will be an important event, testifying to Italy’s close cultural connections with China.