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Decolonize Your Food: the Slow Food Indigenous Peoples’ Network campaign against food heritage loss

9 August 2023

Indigenous peoples protect an extraordinary variety of plant and animal species, as well as traditional knowledge, food, and languages that are at risk of extinction. On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2023, the Slow Food Indigenous Peoples’ Network will launch the “Decolonize Your Food” campaign to support Indigenous communities in preserving their …

Decolonizing our food, decolonizing our thoughts

9 August 2023 Carlo Petrini

Once again this year, August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Thanks to the Terra Madre Network, I have been lucky enough to have a number of dealings with indigenous communities in my lifetime and to see for myself how their lives are intrinsically linked with everything around them. They possess …

The guardians of the Blue Mountains coffee

13 April 2023

“Nilgiri” is the union of the words “blue” and “mountains,” and the name of the “Blue Mountains” in southwestern India, among which numerous peaks above 2,000 meters stand out. In these mountains, the “Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve,” the largest protected forest area in India, was established in 1986, and in addition to being a biodiversity hotspot …

Slow Food at the IFAD Governing Council: “Agroecological food systems guarantee food security to Indigenous Peoples”

8 February 2023

Slow Food at the IFAD Governing Council: “Agroecological food systems guarantee food security to Indigenous Peoples” Accelerating Action for Food Security is the theme of the 46th Governing Council meeting, IFAD’s main decision-making body, in Rome (Italy) on February 14 and 15. Slow Food will be present to reiterate its position: The world needs a …

SFYN TANK: our solutions

15 November 2022 Laura Odorisio, Slow Food Youth Network

From September 22nd to 26th 2022, during Terra Madre, Slow Food YOUTH NETWORK organised the second edition of the “SFYN TANK”: a social design workshop, where youth from different countries worked together to find innovative solutions to global food problems. The previous months, we asked our community members to suggest food issues and specific cases …

Food is Political! Slow Food’s Advocacy Work at Terra Madre

26 September 2022

The 14th edition of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto has come to an end, and it has been a blast! During five days, thousands of people joined us for this unique event. With over 600 exhibitors and through a series of workshops, conference and tastings, visitors could discover how we can regenerate our planet through …

Terra Madre Salone del Gusto: Spurring Action Worldwide

26 September 2022

“The message of this global gathering is crucial: The solutions to the multiple crises we face already exist. We have seen, heard and exchanged them over the last few days with the hundreds of farmers, cooks, food producers, activists and experts who came together in Turin,” commented Edward Mukiibi, newly elected President of Slow Food …

The Triple Burden of Malnutrition: An Economic, Social and Political Problem

25 September 2022

The triple burden of malnutrition—overweight from excess, undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies—is also a triple problem, being both economic, social and political. This was the fundamental concept to emerge yesterday at the conference held at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2022 (September 22-26 in Turin, Italy) in the space dedicated to the theme of Food and …

Regeneration in the City, Regeneration in the Fields

24 September 2022

The third day of Terra Madre 2022 saw a host of instructive, insightful workshops and presentations around the themes of bridging the urban-rural divide. We began the day in the Gino Strada Arena for a Food Talk by Geraldine Ezquerra, a researcher of Environmental Sociology at the University of Havana, Cuba, on the McDonalidization of society, and …

Cinema Communities for Innovation, Networks and Environment

24 September 2022

Two Exciting Film Workshops were held during the first days of the event at the youth tourism agriculture area. These were led by the Mobile Film Festival, a competition founded in France in 2005 that challenges aspiring directors to produce a one-minute film on their phone. The meetings saw students, young activists, Indigenous Peoples and …