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Niyat, change with a woman’s face

12 November 2021 By Claudio Jorge Leveratto and Victor Hugo Groppa

One of the project producers smiles as she uses an old watering can to water the first pumpkin and corn plants that are sprouting. She started the cornfield a few weeks ago and, together with her family, is reinforcing the fence to keep out the goats that had entered the milpa field on previous occasions. …

To Stay or Leave? In Ecuador, the Answer Comes from Food

12 November 2021

More than ever before, migratory trends are seeing thousands of people leaving their homelands, all across the world. It’s happening in the region known as Austro, in the south of Ecuador. When we talked to people living there, they told us bluntly that they are facing the greatest migratory crisis in history. Those who are …

Slow Food Community Qorr growers of Vetimboso founded at Lantarr Slow Food Festival in Vanua Lava, Vanuatu

25 October 2021

A group of ten people representing the Indigenous People of Vetimboso village, Torba Province, Vanua Lava, Vanuatu have made a commitment to protect their local foods and agricultural heritage by founding a Slow Food Community at the Lantarr Slow Food Festival. The Slow Food Community Qorr growers of Vetimboso, will focus on the yam or …

Opportunity : Virtual knowledge exchange for Indigenous Peoples in Asia and Pacific

20 July 2021 Dai Kitabayashi

This is an initiative for indigenous friends and members of Slow Food in Asia and Oceania. My name is Dai Kitabayashi, a youth of Loochoos (Ryukyus) peoples in Okinawa, Japan, I am also a member of the Advisory Board of Slow Food Indigenous Peoples’ network. Jointly with Slow Food Nippon and headquarters office, we would …

Good Food Camp in Africa

21 June 2021

Slow Food Youth Network Uganda successfully held their first camp intending to connect young people to the local food systems. To tackle the current and prospective food system problems, it is crucial to involve youth as they are the ones building the future society. However, for most youngsters in Uganda, the questions related to food …

SFYN Podcast: Resilience of Indigenous Communities

7 June 2021

The goal of this episode is to broaden our understanding of a regenerative food system within the context of an indigenous community, and to shed light on the age-old agricultural practices that keep our communities strong. We learn about the multi-faceted challenges indigenous communities face, in the past, present, and future, and the solutions and …

Agroecology as key for the future: building local economies in East Africa

25 May 2021

The positive impact of agroecological practices and their environmental, socio-cultural, health and economic benefits is highlighted in three interesting case studies from the “Building Local Economies in East Africa through Agroecology” project, funded by the Agroecology Fund and launched by Slow Food in collaboration with its local networks in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic …

NIYAT: a new project for the Slow Food network in Argentina

24 May 2021

Indigenous* leadership in the construction of new forms of local governance for the recognition and access to rights. The word “Niyat” refers to the Wichí name of the traditional leader, who represents a guide and bases his leadership on the knowledge and ability to guide the group in the face of the risks and difficulties …

Can Slow Food save Brazil’s fast-vanishing Cerrado savanna?

3 May 2021

The incredibly biodiverse Cerrado is Brazil’s second-largest biome after the Amazon. However, half of the savanna’s native vegetation has already been lost to industrial agribusiness, which produces beef, soy, cotton, corn, eucalyptus and palm oil for export. Those wishing to save the Cerrado today are challenged by the lack of protected lands. One response by …

Slow Food Travel has Western Visayas in its sights!

31 March 2021

On Saturday 27th of March 2021, the Slow Food Community of Negros Island, the Department of Tourism of the Philippines and Slow Food International launched an exciting new project focused on agrobiodiversity and cultural mapping and building public and stakeholder awareness of the provinces of Western Visayas. This new project also gains inspiration from a …