colombia - Slow Food International

How many times do you have to fall before becoming a World Barista Champion?

5 April 2022

Diego Campos became the first World Barista Champion from Colombia in Milan, Italy in 2021. But let’s go back to the beginning of his story: when he was 18 years old, Diego moved from the small town El Espinal to Bogotà, where one of his oldest sisters was working for Amor Perfecto. Diego had no …

YANAYAKU: THE ROOTS OF COFFEE

5 April 2022

A six-foot tree full of red cherries, shimmering green leaves, and the earthy smell of wet soil. It is an incredible feeling to stand in front of a coffee plant for the first time. Pulling out a cherry, extracting the two beans covered in mucilage, realizing the slow process that will bring those seeds to …

Degusta Tu Caribe: Caribbean Raizal Taste – Promoting the Importance of Responsible Consumption

28 January 2019 Marta Arosio

The “Degusta tu Caribe: Caribbean Raizal Taste” Campaign is being promoted in the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, home of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, an area with some of the greatest marine biodiversity in the western Caribbean. This archipelago is inhabited by the Raizal, people, an ethnic minority group, with their own …

Taste Your Caribbean: Caribbean Raizal Taste

7 November 2018

Slow Fish Caribe is a project funded by the European Union and implemented in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, where the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve is located, and on the Mexican coast of Quintana Roo, where the Sian Ka’an and Banco Chichorro Biosphere Reserves can be found.

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 …

Slow Fish Caribbean: Cooperation, Peace and Sustainability for the Future of Fishing

15 March 2017 Annalisa Audino

With a focus on the Mexican coast of Quintana Roo, home to the Sian Ka’an and Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserves, and the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve in the San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina archipelago in Colombia, the Slow Fish network has recently embarked a new project to promote the preservation of coral reef and coastal biodiversity, currently suffering due the excessive exploitation of natural resources.