Congress - Slow Food International

Slow Food has officially assumed the new legal entity of Participation Foundation

30 November 2022

The International Congress held in Pollenzo, Italy, last July, represented the step forward towards a legal entity that allows a broader participation of all possible subjects interested not only in collaborating with Slow Food, but in being Slow Food, in different and broader ways (as defined first in the previous Congress, held in Chengdu). In …

The Call to Action: a tool for everyone

27 February 2020

Slow foodies! We need you! Last month we shared the first documents which will guide us on the path towards the International Congress, which will be held from October 8-12 in Turin, at the same time as Terra Madre Salone del Gusto. Our intention is to involve as many members and activists as possible in these wide reflections on the future of Slow Food, sewing seeds along the path towards the Congress with the ideas, opinions and inputs of everyone who wants to participate.

Community: Living salt and yeast of the Slow Food Movement

26 February 2020

“The term community belongs to our history, as the concept of the communities as local groups connected to the network has existed since the first edition of Terra Madre. We reiterated this message in 2017 at the Congress of Chengdu, where we talked about Slow Food Communities and called for their creation and development across the world. But we need this message to be even more pervasive, an ever-stronger catalyst for the transformation our movement needs in order to carry out its mission.”

Slow Food 2.0: Around the World in Six New Communities

30 July 2018

A network united for change The Slow Food network is working to construct new communities in different countries around the world. Here is a quick globetrotting overview of some of the first examples, founded in the last few months: Protecting local biodiversity through good practices Slow Food Molo Mushunu Chicken Farming Community – Kenya …

Slow Food Is Defined By Its People: Communities Bring New Energy to the International Movement

30 July 2018

Slow Food was founded over 30 years ago. The world has changed dramatically since then, and so too has the association, which has transformed into a global movement of thousands of people who share a common vision, summed up in the Chengdu Declaration. Today the movement faces demanding, urgent and complex challenges that are pushing …

Slow Food Italy Congress: A New Era Begins with the Election of Seven Executive Committee Members

9 July 2018

Slow Food Italy’s congress in Montecatini Terme signaled the arrival of a new committee and a freshly defined focus: The fight against all kinds of environmental, human and social exploitation in the agricultural production system will guide the mandate in Italy from now until 2020 “The ports of our seas are being closed to migrants, …

Breaking the Mold

19 June 2018

The international congress of Chengdu kicked off a major review and update to the structure of Slow Food, starting with an evaluation of the communities which make up our network, and reorganising projects with those communities at their heart.

Food can change the world

1 October 2017

We can change the world through food. The 7th Slow Food International Congress closes in Chengdu, defining our path for the years to come. “This congress reaffirms our rejection of the current development model. These days of work and testimony from the Slow Food and Terra Madre networks have confirmed that alternative models exist, and …

Chengdu: The Capital of Chinese Gastronomy

1 October 2017

As has been noted several times since Slow Food announced that its 7th International Congress would be held in Chengdu, this was the first city in Asia to be recognized as a City of Gastronomy by UNESCO, and is unquestionably the capital of Chinese cuisine, being the capital of Sichuan Province, one of only a …

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 …