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Keep the ban on GMOs in Kenya!

13 January 2023

For the agribusiness, the end always justifies the means. For decades, giant agricultural companies have pressured governments across the globe to loosen Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)1 regulations and make it easier for these substances to make it into our food unlabeled. The Slow Food position is that GMOs are not needed to feed the word, and work against efforts to make agriculture more sustainable. From South Korea to Uruguay, our grassroot movement works to prevent GMOs from entering our fields and ending up on our forks. Our most recent battle in this regard took place in Kenya last year.

Edible Cities: Rebuilding Food Sovereignty one Rooftop at the Time

16 October 2020

Slow Food Uganda is working with the Youth Network to mobilize citizens to grow urban gardens as a way of increasing access to nutritious and affordable vegetables and fruits among families and localized communities. Edible Cities can be a viable and sustainable activity to improve nutrition, income generation, and ecological advancement. High levels of undernutrition …

Building Local Economies in East Africa Through Agroecology

28 July 2020 John Kiwagalo

Limited government support, unfavorable policies, and lack of research on the benefits of agroecological solutions to face the current food system are some of the challenges centered on agroecology that we need to address to pave the path toward food sovereignty in the communities amid the growing crises. These issues are amplified by the lack …

Slow Food supports evicted Ogiek Community with a fundraising campaign. Let’s make a difference together!

24 July 2020

We received very disturbing news from our network in Kenya: members of the Ogiek indigenous community and Slow Food activists are being illegally and forcibly evicted from their ancestral land, the Mau Forest. Slow Food has launched today a fundraising campaign to help support the Ogiek families who lost everything. If you wish to donate, …

World Hunger is Getting Worse, and Africa Will Pay the Worst Consequences

15 July 2020

The number of people who suffer from hunger is continuously increasing, reaching in 2019 close to 690 million, 8.9% of the world population. This is what emerges from the report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World – SOFI just published by the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), …

COVID-19 and the state of food security in Africa

1 June 2020 Edward Mukiibi

This article has been written for the Journal “Agriculture and Human Values“ As COVID-19 continues to leave devastating effects in many countries around the world, many people especially from the developing nations are shifting their focus from the fatal effects of the pandemic to the threats it poses on their daily supply of food. This …

Final Reflections on Shaping the Future of Food in Africa

10 December 2019

A full week of teaching, learning, and growing came to an end on Saturday, December 7th, as we wrapped up “Shaping the Future of Food in Africa”. This was more than just an advocacy and capacity-building workshop; it was a moment of intercultural bridge-building that united delegates from seven African countries around one goal: good, clean and fair food for Africa.

New Slow Food Community founded: “African Youth Leaders for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems”

6 December 2019

The Slow Food Community “African Youth Leaders for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems” was founded today in Nakuru, Kenya. Their objective is to create an inclusive African youth network that can advocating for the restoration of indigenous peoples’ food systems and rights.

Slow Food Youth Network and Indigenous Terra Madre ready to flourish in Africa

3 December 2019

The first day of the Indigenous Terra Madre and Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) event “Shaping the Future of Food in Africa” is almost over, and with four more days ahead, Africa’s first Advocacy Workshop Event on the topic of the Future of Food in Africa is off to a great start.

Farmers don’t know they’re growing unhealthy food, and people don’t know they are eating it.

29 November 2019

The Future of Food in Africa will be shaped not by one but by many. One of these many is Elphas Masanga, a young Kenyan participating in Shaping the Future of Food in Africa: an advocacy workshop for future food leaders from the Indigenous Terra Madre and the Slow Food Youth Networks (SFYN), which will take place from December 3rd-7th in Nakuru, Kenya.