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Rice, salt, and indigenous food biodiversity in the Krayan Highlands

22 July 2019 Charles Barstow

Last month, the village of Binuang in Borneo’s Krayan Highlands hosted a festival to celebrate the traditional culture, crafts, and food biodiversity of Krayan’s indigenous communities. The event was organized by FORMADAT Indonesia (Forum Masyarakat Adat Dataran Tinggi Borneo, the Alliance of the Indigenous Peoples of the Highlands of Borneo). Borneo, the world’s third-largest island, …

Slow Food Kenya Engage In Conversation at Nakuru Agricultural Show 2019

4 July 2019

Yesterday the Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) gave the starting signal for the Nakuru National Agricultural Show 2019, and Slow Food Kenya takes on the impressive role of representing alternative farming methods before some of the industry’s biggest players

“One in eight species will soon become extinct”. In an assessment report published today, the United Nations sounds the alarm on the dramatic decline of world biodiversity.

6 May 2019

Slow Food has been denouncing the risks of the intensive food production system for over 20 years now and has already catalogued 5000 food products to save. Today it urges the world’s governments to take these studies into serious consideration. A million plants and animals will soon disappear from the face of the earth and …

Slow Food presents “What you didn’t know existed: Endangered food from around the world”

18 April 2019

Slow Food presents: What you didn’t know existed. Endangered food from around the world The Food is Culture project is in full swing and held its first major event in Stockholm The artwork What you didn’t know existed. Endangered food from around the world was launched on March 29th at the Stockholm Spritmuseum. The work officially inaugurated …

Slow Cheese Bodrum is Here

5 April 2019 Deniz Kurtsan

The third annual edition of Slow Cheese Bodrum will take place next week in Turkey’s southwest, featuring a market, hands-on classes, tastings and excursions, and producers from around Turkey and the Aegean, all in the name of cheese!

New FAO Report Indicates that Biodiversity Loss is Pushing Food System Towards Collapse

22 February 2019

Slow Food calls for immediate action: “This should be at the top of every news bulletin and every government’s agenda around the world” The current industrial model of agriculture underpinning the global food system is destroying itself, and us with it: This is the conclusion that we can draw from the report released today …

The Ark of Taste Continues Its Journey

11 February 2019 Carlo Petrini

We are celebrating the 5,000th product to board the Ark of Taste, the catalogue that collects foods that belong to the culture, history, and traditions of the world, that are at risk of extinction. The product selected for this milestone is honey from Tapoa, a region in the east of Burkina Faso.

6 Curiosities Aboard the Ark of Taste

9 February 2019

Ever wondered what might be the biggest animal aboard the ark? Or the smallest? Look no further…

Slow Food’s Ark of Taste Welcomes 5,000th Passenger

8 February 2019

Honey made by the Gourmantché people in the eastern Tapoa region of Burkina Faso is the product Slow Food has chosen as the 5,000th passenger to board its Ark of Taste, the online catalogue of forgotten and endangered foods that belong to the local culture, history and tradition of places all over the planet.

Slow Food and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat to Bolster Livelihoods of Mountain People

11 December 2018

Slow Food and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, hosted by FAO, have signed an agreement to improve the livelihoods of mountain people, with special focus on Cordillera’s mountain community in the Philippines.