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What role can food play in reducing inequality?

24 August 2017 Bill Emmott

Behind all the political earthquakes we have been witnessing in the rich, developed world – Brexit, Trump, Macron, even the Governor of Tokyo’s sweeping victory in July with her new party – have lain two, closely related, issues: inequality and injustice. In a West whose flaws have been so brutally exposed since the 2008 financial …

Crazy for avocados: but what does it take to get them onto our plates?

22 August 2017 Michela Marchi Chile

If your local bakery-café doesn’t have at least one sandwich that features avocado, it might not survive very long. What self-respecting fusion restaurant in any large post-industrial city doesn’t offer guacamole as a standard side dish in this day and age? Newspapers around the world have dedicated thousands of column inches to the green superfood, …

Opposing Transgenic Foods in Bolivia

21 August 2017 maria julia jimenez Bolivia

Like the rest of the continent and the world, Bolivia has not escaped the process of globalization that has shortened distances, brought information to the masses and turned local populations into consumers, imposing a global culture that marginalizes local identities. In tandem with urban processes, rural processes have developed in response to globalization. The east …

Fermes d’Avenir and Slow Food: a common path towards a more sustainable food system

21 August 2017 Carolina Modena France

Industrial agriculture presents itself as the only viable solution for feeding the world. Of course, we don’t all agree. The French organisation Fermes d’Avenir was founded in 2013 with the intention of demonstrating that agroecology and permaculture are realistic, practicable alternatives. The association’s first project was “Ferme de la Bourdaisière”: a 1,4 hectare farm where …

Biodiverseedy: Sewing Connections for Living Seeds

18 August 2017

Seed conservation is the foundation of agricultural biodiversity, and its importance for our future cannot be overstated. Slow Food has spoken before about the role of institutes like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in protecting biodiversity, yet it is also true that seeds must be more than museum artifacts or numbers in a frozen archive: …

Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Norte Votes in Favor of Raw Milk

16 August 2017 Patricia Moll and Danielle Nagase Brazil

On Wednesday, July 12, the Nivardo Mello law, which regulates the production and marketing of artisanal cheese and butter, was unanimously approved (22 votes) in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Norte.

Australia’s First Slow Meat Symposium in Daylesford

14 August 2017 Australia

Slow Food in Australia is hosting the first Slow Meat Symposium in Daylesford on 3 – 4 September 2017. The Slow Meat mantra is ‘eat better meat, less’.

Syrian Violinist and Italian Guitarist on the Road for Refugees

10 August 2017

Alaa Arsheed, a Syrian violinist, and Isaac de Martin, a Venetian producer and guitarist have one month to retrace the Balkan Route starting from Udine and arriving in Thessaloniki, Greece.

We Feed the Planet Japan Is Calling For Delegates!

8 August 2017 Japan

From November 3rd to 5th, 2017, Slow Food Youth Network Japan is going to organize We Feed The Planet in Japan 2017, a 3-day gathering of young producers, chefs, activists, researchers, entrepreneurs, students and consumers that are trying to change the food system.

The State of Food in France

3 August 2017 Gilles Luneau France

On July 20 the French government announced The State of Food, a public event which will take place from August to November 2017, bringing together all the actors in the food system, from field to plate. The challenge is to solve the general crisis of the European agricultural model, but not all actors analyze it …

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