Terra Madre Americas
Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento - Opening hours: 10am - 6pm
17 مايو - 19 مايو 2024
On May 17-19, 2024, at Memorial Auditorium, Terra Madre Americas is hosting its inaugural event to allow for a dialog between different worlds (those of food producers, scientists, cooks, researchers and above all citizens) who meet in Sacramento for the first time and make the event an unmissable occasion for participation, connection and discussion.
Exploring Food's Impact on Society and the Environment
Terra Madre Americas will explore how food is interrelated with most aspects of our lives and environment, with specific hints at the climate crisis, the social justice, education in the food and beverage system, through the lens of specific topics.
Slow Food, the global movement acting together to ensure good, clean and fair food for all, and Visit Sacramento, the destination marketing organization, join forces to organize the first edition of Terra Madre Americas, the international event which addresses food related issues and provides viable solutions for the future.
The aim of the event is to reach beyond the obvious and explore how food is interrelated with most aspects of our lives and environment, with specific hints at the climate crisis and the social justice in the food and beverage system. In this first edition Latin America and its food biodiversity will be under the spotlight, in order to present local products and practices to safeguard the environment and preserve resources for the future. Visitors will ideally visit these territories, discovering products, tasting them, listening to dedicated workshops and meeting delegates.
Themes
These themes will be presented through physical spaces and contents specifically focusing on Biocultural territories of Latin America and the Caribbean, The Slow Food Coffee Coalition, The Slow Food Wine Coalition, Food and health educational area.
SLOW FOOD COFFEE COALITION
The supply chain proposed by Slow Food and indicated in the Manifesto of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition, represent a model, especially agricultural, that respects biodiversity and nature, with the aim of countering the climate crisis. There is an urgency to act, in being able to produce and choose more and more good, clean and fair coffee.
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SLOW FOOD WINE COALITION
Wineries from the United States, Central America and South America who promote agroecological principles in their territories will be in Sacramento participating in events with different target audiences: taste workshops, walk-around tastings and thematic meetings all focused on the Slow Food principles and good, clean, fair wine.
On May 20th, the event will move to Mulvaney’s B&L for a day exclusively dedicated to food & wine industry professionals who will have the opportunity to meet more than 30 wineries from the United States and Central and South America, all of which are participating in the Slow Wine Coalition.
Link to register here: Terra Madre Americas 2024 – Terra Madre (idloom.events)
BIOCULTURAL TERRITORIES OF LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Delegates from the American continent spanning all parts of the food systems will explore biocultural territories through different crops – corn, sugar cane, açaí, cocoa and quinoa – that are controversial in terms of good, clean, fair principles, and will show good practices to safeguard and promote them.
- The Mesoamerica, with corn and milpa crop-growing system
- The Pacific and Caribbean, with agrocological sugar cane and panela and viche
- The Amazon Rainforest, with açaí agroforestry cultivation
- The Atlantic Rainforest, with agroecology and cabruca cocoa production system
- The Andes, with traditional grains terrace systems
FOOD AND HEALTH EDUCATIONAL AREA
This space aims to present the relationship between food and health according to Slow Food’s approach, which includes pleasure and sensory education, gives value to traditional gastronomic knowledge and emphasizes food as an expression of different cultures. Through a series of activities involving audiences of all ages, it gives voice to Slow Food network and food system actors.
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The entrance is free with the exception of Taste Workshops and of the events dedicated to the Slow Wine Coalition.
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