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Choosing Good Food should not be this Complicated – a Vision for Improving EU Food Environments

Choosing Good Food should not be this Complicated – a Vision for Improving EU Food Environments

Madeleine Coste & Frank Mechielsen

[Originally published in Arc2020] The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy won’t be realised unless policy goes beyond voluntary measures to gear food environments to promote truly sustainable diets. Participants in the EU Food Policy Coalition share their vision for improving food environments. Op-ed by Frank Mechielsen from Feedback Global and Madeleine Coste from Slow Food Europe. Food environments are …

Slow Food Hero: Les Resistants and L’Avant-Poste, two bulwarks against COVID-19

Slow Food Hero: Les Resistants and L’Avant-Poste, two bulwarks against COVID-19

The premise of Florent Piard and his restaurants, Les Resistants and l’Avant-Poste, is a righteous one, down to the name. It aims to strengthen links with rural areas and local farmers who respect the environment, as well as to preserve traditional know-how. Since the start of the pandemic he has been in constant contact with the hundred or so farmers most affected by the crisis, following their situation daily and helping where necessary.