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Brazil: authorities destroy cheese at the Rock in Rio festival

21 September 2017 Brazil

In Brazil there are three layers of inspection for meat and dairy products: municipal, state and federal. A product with municipal certification may be sold only within that locality, while state certification guarantees right of sale within the state and federal certification throughout the whole country. For small-scale producers, having federal certification is both expensive …

China: a great context for discussing the challenges the future holds for Slow Food

20 September 2017 Paolo Di Croce China

Insofar as it will start planning the structure Slow Food will have over the next ten to twenty years, the end-of-September Congress will be fundamental for the future of our association. The key words will be internationality and globality, referring both to the global diffusion of our movement and to its inclusive, open, barrierless organizational …

China: A Cutting-Edge Laboratory

12 September 2017 Piero Kuang Sung Ling China

Slow Food Great China and the City of Chengdu are very happy to be organizing and hosting the 7th Slow Food International Congress. We are not only honored and enthusiastic, but also feel the weight of this great responsibility, first and foremost because we want to introduce this great movement to a population with a …

Dumingag: Transforming Communities Through Sustainable Agriculture

7 September 2017 Paula Zayco Aberasturi Philippines

I donned all the relics and charms I had for a safe travel. I have never been to Zamboanga, the side of Mindanao close to a so-called red zone and so St. Christopher, sacred geometry and Lapiz Lazuli stones chaperoned me on that trip. I was to land in Ozamiz and then arrange for a …

Pane Nostro: Third Edition of the International Festival to Celebrate Mediterranean Food

6 September 2017 Italy

Pane Nostro opposes the constrained and dominant nutritional models, the disorders caused by the dietary imbalances, and calls attention to the need to rediscover the authentic Mediterranean cuisine.

Carlo Petrini: “We can’t win on our own.”

4 September 2017 Carlo Petrini

Slow Food has to be inclusive, it has to knock down all formalities. We can’t win the challenges the world holds in store for us on our own. The long buildup to the Chengdu Congress has certainly involved a great deal of profound reflection. Which is just as it should be as an event of …

SOS Amazon: the Brazilian government wants to open up the forest to mining.

1 September 2017 Michela Marchi Brazil

President Michel Temer has abolished a nature reserve the size of Denmark to allow mining. The Brazilian president, Michel Temer, has taken steps to abolish the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), opening up a protected area of 46,000 square kilometers of forest, between the northern states of Amapà and Parà, to mining. It …

Indigenous Social Entrepreneurship: Businesses putting the Earth first

30 August 2017 Francisco Prieto

Indigenous Terra Madre leaders met during Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016 to discuss, among other issues, the concept of Indigenous Social Entrepreneurship. The issue is new and Slow Food wanted to learn about it from our network members. Learning from the network and being able to adapt continuously to changing parameters is fundamental for …

Menu for Change: Let’s put a better future on the table

28 August 2017

Why should Slow Food concern itself with climate change? Everyone is talking about it, and some even deny it. But we experience its effects every day: glaciers melting, rivers drying up, extreme heat and increasingly violent hurricanes and tornados. But to many of us it still feels like a distant, abstract problem, unconnected to a …

When foreign foods are removed from supermarket shelves, what’s left?

25 August 2017 Germany

What would your local supermarket’s shelves look like if all foreign-made food was removed? That’s precisely what Edeka, the largest supermarket corporation in Germany, did in a Hamburg store last Saturday, August 19th, in an experiment designed to show how reliant the country is on imports, and at the same time, counter xenophobia. The empty …

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