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Slow Food Europe’s Summer List

15 July 2021

Welcome to our summer list ! We have picked out the videos, podcasts and books that will inform and entertain you about food politics and the deep interconnections food has with our health and that of the planet. We hope they will help feed your reflection about the world you want to live in. Whether …

From the EU to the UN, Biodiversity Needs Agroecology

7 July 2021 Alice Poiron

Whilst Slow Food launches its global online campaign to promote the protection and restoration of biodiversity, the European Union continues to be incoherent in its approach to biodiversity and food policies. Ahead of the United Nations’ biodiversity summit, environmental discussions must acknowledge the central role that food and agriculture play in the fight against climate …

The CAP is Parting Ways with the EU Green Deal

28 June 2021 Yael Pantzer

Last week, the trilogue negotiations reached the finishing line of the reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), that will remain in force until 2027 (entry into force in 2023). Early next year, National Strategic Plans will be approved, closing the curtain on the reform process. Representatives from the main European institutions, the Commission, …

EU Member States Show Support for the Deregulation of New GMOs

7 June 2021 Madeleine Coste & Alice Poiron

Last week, EU Member States welcomed the alarming Commission’s study on “New Genomic Techniques”, which suggests certain new GMOs to be exempt from rigorous safety assessments. Slow Food sees this disappointing conclusion as a proof of the EU’s resort to biotechnologies as a silver bullet for current food system problems and calls on the EU …

No Deal in Sight for a Green EU Farming Policy

2 June 2021 Yael Pantzer

From May 25 to 27, talks over the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) crumbled as Member States rejected the EU Parliament’s weak environmental plan as too green & those on labour rights as too strong, while the EU Commission pretended the new CAP was still in line with the EU Green Deal. Last …

Emilia Romagna on the Path Towards Cage-Free Farms

20 May 2021

The Commission for Economic Policies of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna (Italy) has approved a resolution committing the Regional Council to support a transition towards cage-free animal farms that respect animal welfare. Slow Food welcomes this initiative and sees it as “an excellent start. But now is the time for a concrete framework of action: …

European Cities Pave the Way for Healthy, Fair and Sustainable Food Systems

13 May 2021

Slow Food is a proud partner of the Food Trails project, a four-year initiative that will enable the design of pilot activities in 11 European cities in order to help them co-create urban food policy. The goal is to empower communities, promote a zero-waste use of resources, promote environmentally friendly behavior change and ensure people have healthy …

Nature Needs Agroecology

12 May 2021 Francesco Sottile

Francesco Sottile, agronomist and member of Slow Food Italy’s Executive Board, comments on the paradoxes between the urgent need for sustainable agriculture, and the reality of what is happening in negotiations rooms and in the fields. This is without doubt a complex period for the planet’s agriculture, a period in which the hiatus between what …

How to Make A Flower Bomb?

4 May 2021

In May, Slow Food calls on every European citizen to take a stand for biodiversity and pollinators: this is the “Flower Bomb Challenge”! Participants have two weeks to make their “flower bombs” (a mix of wildflower seeds, clay and soil) and will be invited to throw them around in their garden or in public spaces …

European Commission Opens the Door to New GMOs

3 May 2021

European Commission backtracks and opens the door to the deregulation of new GMOs, putting citizens and farmers’ freedom of choice at risk Slow Food is deeply alarmed by the European Commission’s conclusions from the study on “new genomic techniques” which opens the door to the deregulation of new GMOs, ignoring the precautionary principle. “Through the EU Green …