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Ashes Smoldered Farmers after Taal Eruption in Philippines

4 February 2020

On January 12, Taal volcano, located 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of the Philippines’s capital Manila, erupted, covering the Taal and Tagaytay areas with ash. Volcanic earthquakes continue to shake the island, with 134 between February 2 and 3. “The ash fall covered lands for up to a 25-kilometer radius. We woke up to a …

Slow Food Earth Markets – A Farmers’ Market Like No Other

27 November 2019

How are communities within the Slow Food network spreading the Earth Market program all over the world? How does an Earth Market differ from other public markets? Earth Markets are a special type of farmers’ market created and run by local communities of the Slow Food network, according to the principles of good, clean and …

Relais & Châteaux and Slow Food together also this year for Food for Change

1 October 2019

Relais & Châteaux’s commitment to good, clean and fair food through the celebration of Food for Change with Slow Food, to combat climate change and protect biodiversity. From 3 to 6 October 2019. Again this year, Relais & Châteaux extends their global partnership with Slow Food, the international grassroots organisation in 160 countries that links …

Slow Food Projects in Cuba Expand with Country’s First Earth Market

29 September 2019

Slow Food is pleased to announce the launch of Cuba’s first Earth Market, Finca Vista Hermosa. The initiative is funded by Finca Vista Hermosa and Restaurante Mediterráneo Habana, which launched the “Campo a la Mesa” project in 2013. Today the market will officially become a Slow Food Earth Market, as confirmed Andrea Amato, Central and …

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 …