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Slow food for biodiversity

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A project for Rwanda: Resilience in the land of the thousand hills

A project for Rwanda: Resilience in the land of the thousand hills

1 June 2022 Deines Rojas

Rwanda is one of the countries participating in the project funded by the GEF SGP and implemented by the UNDP and the Mountain Partnership, where Slow Food provides technical assistance and support.  Learn more about it here. An overview of Rwanda This landlocked country is located a few degrees south of the Equator, with elevated lands, …

A Biodiverse Diet Means a Healthy Diet

A Biodiverse Diet Means a Healthy Diet

22 May 2022

Preserving our invaluable heritage of food and agricultural biodiversity is not only good for the environment and ecosystems but also good for us and represents a way of taking care of ourselves.  Food biodiversity, in other words, the diversity of plants, animals, and other organisms that we eat, contributes to a healthy, varied diet.   …

Biodiversity means health, ours and that of the planet

Biodiversity means health, ours and that of the planet

21 May 2021

“We should celebrate biodiversity every day, not just on May 22nd” comments Edie Mukiibi,  Vice- President of Slow Food. “Why? Because biodiversity is what enables agricultural systems to resist and overcome environmental shocks, pandemics and the climate crisis. It provides essential ecosystem services, such as pollination and soil fertility. It makes it possible to produce …

IF BIODIVERSITY IS ALIVE, SO IS THE PLANET: Slow Food’s new position paper on biodiversity

IF BIODIVERSITY IS ALIVE, SO IS THE PLANET: Slow Food’s new position paper on biodiversity

21 May 2021

Slow Food presents its new position paper on biodiversity: the solution is agroecology. For more than 20 years now, Slow Food has worked on the biodiversity that underpins agriculture and food production: plant species and varieties, animal breeds, beneficial insects, microorganisms, ecosystems, knowledge and culture. It was one of the first organizations to focus attention …

Meat the Change: the centuries-old tradition of breeding the Euskal pig txerria of Pello Urdapilleta

Meat the Change: the centuries-old tradition of breeding the Euskal pig txerria of Pello Urdapilleta

29 April 2020

Small-scale producers who produce with respect for the environment and animal welfare are not hard to find. There are many examples in Italy and around the world, and many of these – over 13,0000 – are part of the Presidia network, Slow Food’s projects that support small-scale traditional production that is in danger of disappearing, …

Meat the Change: Eric Sanceau, a Slow Farmer Fighting for Sustainability and Local Breeds

Meat the Change: Eric Sanceau, a Slow Farmer Fighting for Sustainability and Local Breeds

1 April 2020

On Eric Sanceau’s farm in the Île-de-France, the animals listen to classical music and graze freely for much of the day. The first thing you see when you arrive at the Petite Hogue farm are the horses: beautiful creatures, with shining coats and an extraordinary vivacity, running between their stalls and their paddocks. Though the farm …

The Sustainable Future of meat and the Curious

The Sustainable Future of meat and the Curious

25 March 2020 Silvia Ceriani

“The future belongs to the curious.” In 1962 François Truffaut put this phrase into the mouth of one of the characters in Jules et Jim, the film adaptation of the book of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché. These days we might struggle to see it as realistic, because wherever we look it seems as …

The Buzz around Bumblebees

The Buzz around Bumblebees

24 March 2020 Damini Ralleigh

Temperatures are rising and so are the oceans. Fires are decimating forests and lakes are drying up. The intensity, as well as frequency, of droughts and hurricanes is predicted to escalate. And as if this weren’t enough, the climate crisis is claiming the lives of the world’s most efficient pollinators – bumblebees. Research from the …

Glyphosate: The Weedkiller That’s Killing Us

Glyphosate: The Weedkiller That’s Killing Us

23 March 2020 Damini Ralleigh

As winter gives way to spring, farmers begin to prepare for the coming year. A large part of the planning includes managing weeds. For more than a generation, farmers in the US and EU have been using the Monsanto-produced weedkiller, Roundup, which has the majorly contested herbicide, glyphosate, as a main active ingredient, as well …

Pesticide Action Week: It is Time to Act

Pesticide Action Week: It is Time to Act

20 March 2020 Paola Nano

Despite many events having been canceled due to Coronavirus, the Pesticide Action Week is back once again celebrating its fifteenth year online, from March 20 to 30, dedicated to raising awareness around chemical pesticides and the dangers of their use, both for human health and the environment. For over 20 years the French organization “Generations …

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