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Fires burn through farms and vines in Chile

16 March 2023

Widespread fires have brought ecological disaster to the Ñuble and Bío Bío regions of south-central Chile, which have been burning for several weeks now. These fires have already claimed dozens of lives and created severe health issues for the residents of the area, as well as destroying homes, businesses and thousands of hectares of agricultural …

Chile water crisis: The Megadrought Threatening Food Security

12 August 2020

Chile has seen, in the past decade, one of the worst droughts in a thousand years. Rainfall has decreased creating a water deficit of 75% percent, and higher especially in the central regions where citizens are resourcing to mobile water tanks, and local wells to fulfill their water needs. As the COVID-19 pandemic threat increases, …

The Dark Side of Your Avocado Toast

6 August 2019

As we want to discourage the provoking over-consumption of avocado in these days of distorted media output, we thought it opportune to share and hear the stories that are still possible to tell. Why more stories? Because one thing has always remained clear to us: our choices make a difference and a small sacrifice from …

Land Rights Now – Rolando Diego Manzano Rada – Aimara people, Chile

27 November 2018

Rolando Diego Manzano Rado is an indigenous Aimara man from Visiviri in Chile’s north. A vet and a llama and alpaca breeder, Rolando wants to stop the drain of youth from his community and is hoping that a political change will be the catalyst needed to revitalise his home and entice the emigrated youth to return.

Earth Markets in Chile Come Together in La Serena

25 October 2018

The Earth Markets of Chile are joining together to promote and raise awareness about Earth Markets and to make the network grow in their country.

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 …

Urban-rural integration and revival of marketplaces in Colombia

20 November 2017 Liliana Vargas

Colombian cities play a key role in peacebuilding in a highly urbanized country, where the urban population has been detached from the armed and social conflict seen in the countryside. The challenge of social peacebuilding thusinvolves not only implementing agreements in rural areas, but also work to link up with urban development proposals to overcome …

Crazy for avocados: but what does it take to get them onto our plates?

22 August 2017 Michela Marchi

If your local bakery-café doesn’t have at least one sandwich that features avocado, it might not survive very long. What self-respecting fusion restaurant in any large post-industrial city doesn’t offer guacamole as a standard side dish in this day and age? Newspapers around the world have dedicated thousands of column inches to the green superfood, …

New research projects to identify and safeguard biodiversity in Chile

24 July 2017 Jack Coulton

Stretching more than 4000 kilometers north to south, from the Atacama desert to the Tierra del Fuego, Chile is home to an incredible wealth of biodiversity, as well as a conflation of food cultures that span indigenous peoples and migrants from across the globe. Slow Food Chile is raising money for a nationwide research process …