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In Mexico, Coffee is a Family Affair

17 May 2023

Mexico is one of the world’s leading coffee exporters with most production concentrated in the South-Central regions of the country. Coffee is largely made up of the Arabica variety which grows especially well in 15 states, particularly Chiapas, Veracruz, Puebla and Oaxaca. As in many other coffee-belt countries, the means of production bears a strong …

The Bread of the Dead, Calaveras and Other Food of Remembrance

3 November 2020

I’ve always loved the last days of October and the first of November because I love the celebrations of the dead. I find a lot of life within them, and the idea of a link that can’t be broken, whether or not there is a life beyond this one. And that’s why today’s article for …

They are giants, We are Millions: an Industrial Livestock Breeder in Mexico Closes.

29 January 2019 Annalisa Audino

A plan to introduce an industrial pig farm in the Yucatan was met with heavy resistance from local activists and environmentalists. The local Slow Food convivium stood side by side with the area’s indigenous peoples to protect the territory and the underground cenotes from destruction and contamination.

Taste Your Caribbean: Caribbean Raizal Taste

7 November 2018

Slow Fish Caribe is a project funded by the European Union and implemented in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, where the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve is located, and on the Mexican coast of Quintana Roo, where the Sian Ka’an and Banco Chichorro Biosphere Reserves can be found.

#SaveTheHive – Join the Bee Rescue Team with Slow Food Mexico

23 February 2017

Bees are our primary farmers, and their disappearance signals bigger problems that we all need to be aware of. Slow Food Mexico has recently launched the #SalvaLaColmena (Save the Hive) campaign to spread awareness on the issue and inform us on how we can be a part of their campaign to help save the bees.

Indigenous people ‘close down’ a Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) substation in Cuetzalan

7 December 2016

Residents of Cuetzalan “definitively closed down” the construction of a CFE electrical substation and its power line, starting a protest camp to prevent the resumption of works that benefit business at the expense of the local population in Sierra Norte.