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Dear Slow Food Leaders – an Open Letter from Carlo Petrini

25 March 2019 Carlo Petrini

Dear leaders of all Slow Food communities and convivia around the world, Dear Slow Foodies…

Towards a New Food Revolution

13 November 2018

The #FoodforChange campaign and Indaco, a spin-off of the University of Siena, Italy, show that an unhealthy diet, based on processed foods and animal protein from industrial farms, can be compared to a diet based on products from Slow Food Presidia and other sustainable production chains, and that the latter has significant environmental, social, and economic benefits.

The Bell Tolls for the Great Drought

28 May 2018 Carlo Petrini

Shepherd and community leader Tumal Orto Galdibe has already losts hundreds from his flock of sheep and goats to a devastating drought in Kenya. While many around the world see climate change as a future problem, the shepherds in communities like Tumal’s are facing its effects now.

Talking with Soledad Barruti

22 February 2018 Soledad Barruti and Carlo Petrini

Soledad Barruti is an Argentinean journalist and author of Malcomidos: Cómo la industria alimentaria argentina nos está matando, a book denouncing the food industry. Together with Carlo Petrini, in January she took part in Congreso Futuro in Chile, one of the most important Latin American events on the future challenges facing humanity. Here she answers some questions from us.

Carlo Petrini in Chile

18 January 2018

In the coming days, Carlo Petrini will travel to Chile to promote the Slow Food philosophy. The founder and President of Slow Food International will speak about the importance of promoting a good, clean and fair diet and about Slow Food’s Menu for Change campaign which highlights the link between diets and climate change: food can …

Slow Food at Semana MESA São Paulo

24 October 2017 Georges Schnyder

The Semana MESA São Paulo is coming, from October 26-29 2017. On October 26, on the first day of the Congresso MESA Tendências 2017, we’ll welcome Carlo Petrini, the founder and president of the Slow Food movement. The theme of MESA Tendências this year is “Tropical Cuisine, the cry of freedom of Brazilian gastronomy”. Mr …

Petrini to G7 ministers: ‘We must set up a Food Ministry and activate effective international cooperation policies.’

17 October 2017

What follows is the Slow Food President’s speech to the G7 meeting of Agricultural Ministers in Bergamo, Italy, on October 15, 2017. Good morning to everyone and thank you for the invitation. It is an honor for me to speak at this important meeting and I hope my modest contribution may prove useful. Agriculture has …

Petrini: the rebirth of food starts in rural China

30 September 2017 Carlo Petrini

To speak sensibly about food we need to think about time. We must look back at how people and communities have fed themselves over the centuries, forming identities, rituals, relationships with the land, societies and symbolism. Only through this wider, deeper approach will be able to lucidly observe the current situation, and appreciate its most …

Carlo Petrini in China to pave the way for the next Slow Food International Congress

19 June 2017

Climate change, food, and biodiversity will be the issues at the center of the International Congress in the Chinese city of Chengdu…

From a Common Agricultural Policy to a Common Food Policy

27 March 2017 Olivier De Schutter & Carlo Petrini

Last week was the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economy Community, and simultaneously, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP is, to this day, one of the most important common policies of the European Community, both for the number of people it involves (22 million farmers), and for its economic impact, which accounts for 35% of the European Union’s GDP.