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Asia and Pacific Regions Online Cooking Workshops

4 March 2022

A live series of cooking and knowledge-sharing workshops for Slow Food Indigenous Peoples Networks in Asia and Pacific Regions This activity is organized by the Slow Food Indigenous Peoples’ Network from Asia and Pacific Regions (APR). The Asia and Pacific Regions Online Cooking Workshops is a new initiative devised by and for Slow Food indigenous peoples’ friends and members in APR. The concept came up …

The story of an indigenous woman protecting an ingredient from Bolivia

21 February 2022

In the Ark of Taste exists a product called Ajara, which carries potent benefits and is very nutritious. It is an underutilized crop that grows wild in Bolivia, that also represents the identity and heritage of the indigenous people in the region. An ingredient worth protecting that now has its own defender making sure it’s …

Indigenous Terra Madre forum in Hualien, Taiwan

3 February 2022

In December 2019, Hualien County held the first Indigenous Terra Madre and the International Forum. Many Slow Food communities shared their experiences and discussed the future development of Slow Food and the Indigenous Communities. Two years later, in December 2021, the second Indigenous Terra Madre in Hualien invited local and foreign Slow Food Communities to …

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. …

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 …

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 …

World Disco Soup Day 2021 (WDSD) continues digitally

24 March 2021 Silvia Moroni

New format, same goal. In light of the persistence of the pandemic, the World Disco Soup Day 2021 (WDSD) will go digital. On Saturday 24 April 2021, activists and friends of the Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) and Slow Food from all over the world will cut, cook and dance at home or in small …