Press Releases in English

Slow Food celebrates FAO’s World Food Day 2019

14 October 2019

In the year of the 30th anniversary of its Manifesto, Slow Food renews its commitment: skills, visions and abilities which demonstrate that access to good, clean and fair food for all is possible On October 16th, World Food Day, the FAO is calling for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and …

Food is Culture: Nominate Local Products to Join the Ark of Taste

7 October 2019

Competition for European citizens launched today The Food is Culture project is launching a new challenge: After the competitions for cooks and schoolchildren, here comes a chance for all European citizens to actively participate in a new contest. From today until March 15, 2020, everyone can nominate an emblematic food product from their local gastronomic …

Slow Food Joins the European Days of Action for Good Food Good Farming with More than 15 Events in Europe

4 October 2019

For the second year in a row, Slow Food Europe joins the European Days of Action for Good Food Good Farming, which during the month of October will take place across Europe. Different Slow Food networks are organizing more than 15 events in Western, Central and Nordic European countries such as Italy, Romania, Latvia, France, the …

“Food is Culture” at Cheese: and the winner is…

21 September 2019

Winners of the cooks’ contest announced and numerous initiatives scheduled for international event Slow Food is delighted to announce that the winner of the “Food is Culture” contest is Lena Flaten of the Flammans Skafferi restaurant in Storlien, Sweden, with her Taco Jämtland, featuring beans, mushrooms and goat’s cheese with a gooseberry sauce. It is thanks …

The largest meeting of the European Slow Food Youth Network is taking place in Germany.

30 August 2019

On August 29 – September 2, representatives of the European Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) will meet in Bavaria, Germany to plan joint political actions at EU level, and to outline concrete ways towards a more sustainable future and a sustainable food system. Throughout a number of workshops and lively discussions, 60 young people between …

Slow Food Coffee Festival 2019: an advocacy platform to make the voice of smallholders heard in the new national Coffee Bill

29 August 2019

Among the guests attending will be the Mukono district production officer and the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) quality controller Slow Food Uganda will organize the fourth edition of the Slow Food Coffee Festival dedicated to “Our Coffee Our Responsibility, Quality Coffee Everyone’s Responsibility”. The event will take place on Friday August 30 at …

Slow Food Gathers the Wisdom and Skills of Indigenous Peoples From Around the World in Japan

28 August 2019

Later this year Slow Food will be bringing together over 200 indigenous leaders from 27 countries in Hokkaido, Japan, to share their traditional knowledge and raise awareness about how this knowledge and indigenous peoples’ sustainable food systems can play a key role in addressing global challenges like climate change and world hunger. Participants will debate …

Syrian women food producers learn new skills from Italian farmers

27 August 2019

Slow Food and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are organizing a study tour this week in northwest Italy for a group of Syrian small-scale women farmers.

Slow travel is the new trend… and Slow Food Travel is setting the standard!

9 August 2019

“Slow travel” is an expression that is increasingly used in newspapers, TV, and radio around the world. From the English newspaper The Independent to the Spanish agency EFE, it seems that traveling slowly has become particularly trendy; there are many tour operators offering travel packages that include, for example, long walks to discover natural landscapes or long train routes as an alternative to flights.

Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism in the Cordillera: Itogon Arabica Coffee and Ulikan Red Rice will be officially presented at WOFEX

6 August 2019

On August 9, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (of the UN FAO), Slow Food, and the Department of Tourism in the Philippines will participate in WOFEX (World Food Expo Philippines – the largest and best export-oriented food show in the country) to launch the “Food and Tourism for Mountain Development” pilot project* with a focus on local products and gastronomy of the Benguet and Ifugao areas, where the project works directly with family farmers and artisan producers to promote agrobiodiversity and agroecological food systems to improve the livelihoods of mountain communities.