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In Worldwide Lockdowns, Slow Food Acts to Support and Inspire

25 March 2020 Indre Anskaityte

The current outbreak of the coronavirus #COVID19 has disrupted the lives of almost every country in the world. With Europe currently being an epicenter of the pandemic, many countries are under lockdown, with people confined to their homes, schools, and workplaces closed, and only essential businesses still operating. As Slow Food, we want to send …

Slow Food Recommends: Ideas for Your Slow Weekend

3 April 2020 Indre Anskaityte

Currently, around one in five people across the globe are under lockdowns. While countries are putting all efforts to win the battle against COVID-19, the only way we can help to alleviate this crisis is to continue staying in self-isolation. A prospect of another weekend at home without meeting friends or visiting your family might …

Meatless Monday Ingredients to Help You Survive Culinary Distancing, Part 1 (Spice Blends)

3 April 2020

Whether you are holed up in town or country during this period of social distancing, the glory days of stockpiling will soon give way to the boredom of being stuck with diminishing supplies and mundane ingredients. I don’t know about you, but I am not so sure I can look at another image of empty …

RESILIENCE IN THESE FROZEN DAYS

2 April 2020 Silvia Ceriani

In these frozen days, we hear the word “resilience” being used a lot. It’s normally used in the fields of ecology and biology, where it indicates the capacity of a material to repair itself after being damaged, or of a community or ecosystem to return to its initial state after being disturbed. After inflicting so …

Meat the Change: Eric Sanceau, a Slow Farmer Fighting for Sustainability and Local Breeds

1 April 2020

On Eric Sanceau’s farm in the Île-de-France, the animals listen to classical music and graze freely for much of the day. The first thing you see when you arrive at the Petite Hogue farm are the horses: beautiful creatures, with shining coats and an extraordinary vivacity, running between their stalls and their paddocks. Though the farm …

Supporting Dutch Farmers, Food Producers and Retail in Times of Covid19

1 April 2020 Slow Food Netherlands, Maarten Kuiper

It’s been over two weeks since the World Health Organization officially characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic, and a little over a month since the first registered contagion in the Netherlands. The full impact of the pandemic is anyone’s guess at this point. But in the past weeks, we’ve seen that many people and businesses in …

European Civil Society Groups Urge the EU Commission to #SaveBeesandFarmers

31 March 2020 Indre Anskaityte

Slow Food, along with more than 80 civil society organizations in a joint letter to the European Commission, asks to phase out synthetic pesticides by 2035, restore biodiversity, and support farmers in their transition towards agroecology. The letter has been sent to the Commission’s directorate-generals, responsible for the implementation of the Farm to Fork and …

Increasing Signs of Solidarity and Resistance Across the Balkans and Turkey

30 March 2020

With ever more people unable to do their everyday groceries, increasing signs of solidarity and resistance emerge from throughout the Slow Food network across the Balkans and Turkey. Now, more than ever, the direct supply chains remain of the vital importance to safeguard people’s access to food. However, many farmers’ markets that Slow Food initiated …

World Disco Soup Day COVID19 Update: New Format, Same Goal – SFYN’s Annual Protest against Food Waste Carries on Spreading Positivity amid the Crisis

30 March 2020

In light of the COVID19 pandemic, the Slow Food Youth Network has had to make a tough decision to cancel all public events planned for World Disco Soup Day 2020. However, that doesn’t mean that the world’s funniest fight against food waste is not taking place! World Disco Soup Day (WDSD) 2020 is still happening …

Slow Food Suggests: A Book to Read in Times of Crisis

28 March 2020 Silvia Ceriani

Silvia Ceriani, from the Slow Food Headquarters about a book worth reading in times of crisis In Italy, we are now three weeks into quarantine and, among the many resilience strategies we are adopting to spend this time, there is reading – which is actually a great strategy at any time. Among the books that …

Slow Food Recommends: Ideas for Your Slow Weekend

27 March 2020 Indre Anskaityte

As most of us are going to spend our weekend indoors, Slow Food has come up with ideas for your slow weekend. There are plenty of books, movies, podcasts, online webinars that talk about food, our environment and the importance of having a good, clean and fair food system. Take this slow time to catch …

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