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We can still help save our BC fishing communities!

We can still help save our BC fishing communities!

The sea is a free and open space, a common good that people have been harvesting since the dawn of time. But in our globalized and financialized world, the management of this shared heritage is based on legal frameworks that undermine small-scale fishers.
The disproportionate power of corporations and private actors is reinforced, while coastal communities are disenfranchised. In Canada, First Nations people are among the biggest victims of these policies.
But this broken system can—and must—be fixed!

Slow Food Netherlands launches a Calendarium Culinarium to support the consumption of local & seasonal produce

Slow Food Netherlands launches a Calendarium Culinarium to support the consumption of local & seasonal produce

Inspired by the successful project of Slow Food Switzerland and Slow Food Youth Network Switzerland, Slow Food Netherlands developed a calendarium culinarium (culinairy calendar), to support consumers to buy, cook and eat locally sourced and in-season fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and dairy. The calendar showcases over forty detailed and hand drawn illustrations, and contains a …