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menu for change

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Olives and seeds – How Sharaka is helping the community

Olives and seeds – How Sharaka is helping the community

8 March 2018

In Ramallah, Palestine, a dedicated and tenacious group of volunteers, calling themselves Sharaka, are working to preserve their food culture and heritage. Sharaka is Ramallah’s Slow Food Convivium and their mission is to raise awareness about the importance of food sovereignty in Palestine and the preservation of Palestine’s environmental and agricultural heritage, including its heirloom …

Resisting the “Green Revolution” in Visayas

Resisting the “Green Revolution” in Visayas

14 December 2017 Jack Coulton

The Visayan Islands are a large yet little-known group of islands in the center of the Philippines, home to around 20 million people speaking 30 indigenous languages, and 2000 native varieties of rice. Georie Pitong is the coordinator of Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development), or MASIPAG, on the …

Menu For Change: where your donation goes

Menu For Change: where your donation goes

13 December 2017 Paolo Di Croce

Slow Food works on a wide spectrum of projects which has a common social, cultural and environmental aim: to defend the right to good, clean and fair food for all. We are an ambitious organization: we want to change the world for the better. As such, we rely on the efforts of millions of supporters, …

Terra Madre Day 2017: serving solutions to tackle climate change

Terra Madre Day 2017: serving solutions to tackle climate change

11 December 2017

Each year on Slow Food’s anniversary, December 10, the global Slow Food network celebrates Terra Madre Day to promote local eating, agricultural biodiversity and sustainable food production. This year’s Terra Madre Day called special attention to the Menu for Change campaign, which highlights the relationship between food and climate change: starting from food, we can …

Searching for water in the Chalbi Desert

Searching for water in the Chalbi Desert

6 December 2017 Tumal Orto Galdibe

My name is Tumal Orto Galdibe. I am a pastoralist from the Chalbi Desert in northern Kenya, located at the foot of the Hurri Hills Grazing Fields near Maikona Village in Marsabit County, and I make a living raising goats, sheep and camels. This is my livelihood, and my life, as it was of my …

Great Britain: Climate change puts cereal production at risk

Great Britain: Climate change puts cereal production at risk

6 December 2017

Drought, desertification, floods, sea-level rise and ocean pollution put our food at risk across the world. The poorest parts of the planet are already suffering directly as a result, but the consequences can be felt everywhere: milder winters, the northward shift of tropical pests, meager pastures and frequent, unpredictable, violent weather events. Yet our food …

Finland: “The ground is sinking and disappearing.”

Finland: “The ground is sinking and disappearing.”

5 December 2017 Tero Mustonen

I’m Tero Mustonen, a fisher and scientist. I work throughout the Arctic, in the north of the world, where the impacts of climate change are the most obvious and severe. Since 2000 I have led the Snowchange Cooperative, a non-profit group started in North Karelia, in Finland, and made up of around 2,000 representatives of …

Fiji: The Winds of Change

Fiji: The Winds of Change

5 December 2017 Leo Nainoka

When we think of the climate change affecting Fiji and the Pacific, what comes to mind are the lyrics of “Blowing in the Wind” come to mind: How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea? And how many years can some people exist, before they’re allowed to be free? …

Unseasonal Temperatures in Belgium Bring Beer Production to a Halt

Unseasonal Temperatures in Belgium Bring Beer Production to a Halt

30 November 2017 Jean Van Roy

From a young age I followed the teachings of my father and my grandfather, and from them I learned all the secrets of beer. Lambic is unique in the world: The result of bacteria and wild yeasts present in the air, it is made only in the valley of the Senne River in Belgium, in …

South Africa: A Fledgling Artisan Cheese Culture Under Threat

South Africa: A Fledgling Artisan Cheese Culture Under Threat

23 November 2017 Brian Dick

In South Africa we have a huge diversity of landscapes, of animals, of languages and of people. On the dry west coast of the country, the Afrikaner cows, which have been herded since before the arrival of Europeans, have a hump on their backs for much the same reason that camels have them, though historically …

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