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.

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, declaring that in 2016, 815 million people were suffering from hunger, the equivalent of 11% of the world population and as many as 38 million more than the previous year.

Raise your fork against climate change!

Menu for Change campaign against climate change launched at the Slow Food International Congress in Chengdu. “We are all involved. Climate change is not tomorrow, it’s today, and it demands the united efforts of all of humanity.”