Coronavirus - Slow Food International

What Lies Ahead for the EU’s Food and Farming Systems After Covid-19?

25 June 2020 Indre Anskaityte

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted many business sectors, and agriculture and food production aren’t an exception. This week, Slow Food president Carlo Petrini, European Commission’s Vice President Frans Timmermans, responsible for the European Green Deal, and Dacian Cioloş, president of Renew Europe, the third biggest political group in the European Parliament, participated in an online …

Slow Food Youth: Wishes and Hopes for the Time in and After the Corona Crisis

18 May 2020

Three members of Slow Food Youth Germany talk about what is on their minds these days and how they are dealing with the situation. As different as they are, their enthusiasm for good and sustainable food already united them in pre-Corona times. Marie Pugachev was driving and listening to the radio when she noticed it. …

Review: Quammen’s Spillover Saw Covid-19 Coming

15 May 2020 Silvia Ceriani

David Quammen released his book Spillover in 2012, but in the first few months of 2020 his book’s theme resurfaced and he found himself back in the newspapers, interviews, and in numerous television debates. Covid-19 has brought the concept of spillover to peoples’ minds: the passage of a pathogen from one species to another, and …

Private jets are flying agricultural workers to the UK from Romania during the pandemic

4 May 2020 Jack Coulton

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated with frightening speed how frivolous our modern society is, and how much we undervalue the people at the base of the pyramid: the ones who guarantee there’s food on the table. The centrality of food to our existence, its primacy among our activities, is unequivocal. Yet in a world in …

A Video Message from Slow Food #SlowFoodSolidarity

30 April 2020

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Slow Food started its campaign #SlowFoodSolidarity, to showcase actions undertaken by Slow Food communities. Throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and the US, Slow Food groups have supported their local communities by various means: from starting food delivers to providing food to health cares workers and the most …

COVID-19: Throughout Eastern Europe and Asia Local Slow Food Networks Adapt to New Challenges

29 April 2020

Even in times of the worldwide lockdowns, hundreds of local Slow Food groups across the globe show examples of #SlowFoodSolidarity. Many Slow Food small-scale farmers, producers and restaurants had to adapt to new challenges, posted by the COVID-19 crisis. Despite quarantines and lockdowns, Slow Food groups throughout Eastern Europe and Asia reacted quickly and found …

COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Need to Fix the Flaws of Our Food Systems

27 April 2020

As the world is still evaluating the most effective response to halt the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of the virus is profoundly impacting our food systems and exacerbating the economic inequalities and social injustices that already existed before. From the early days, the pandemic was linked to the consumption of wild animals and the impact …

The Slow Food Network in Colombia Mobilizes Different Efforts to Face the Crisis Generated by the Covid-19 pandemic

27 April 2020

Colombia is one of the many countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To confront it, the national government has adopted a series of measures that include the confinement of the Colombian population, the strengthening of health care and humanitarian aid for those most in need. One of the sectors that currently faces the greatest demands …

Connecting People Who Eat With Those Who Produce

25 April 2020 Ana Mosquera

Food donations, mapping of producers, and organic fairs. In times of crisis, the issue is to drain the production and help those who need it most, but, above all, to connect people “It all started when I saw colleagues from a group of desperate cooks not knowing if they were going to get paid if …

Slow Food Germany: Solidarity and Mutual Support – That’s the Spirit

22 April 2020 Sharon Sheets, Slow Food Deutschland

Dire times call for drastic measures, which for the local groups meant to bring all events and planned activities to a halt, and postpone convivial meetings for the unforeseeable future. To many people of the Slow Food network, including the small- and medium-sized businesses we call our supporters, as well as our Chef Alliance cooks, …