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Uganda: Youth Food Advocates gather to discuss how to improve and transform the Food Systems in their communities

29 June 2022

When young food activists with diverse cultural backgrounds gather and get involved in learning experiences, it can become a powerful moment of knowledge exchange. Learning agricultural practices, cultivation, preparation, and appreciation of what is good, clean, and fair allows a democratic and ethical change in the food system. The grassroots level is crucial, as the …

Slow Food Youth: Wishes and Hopes for the Time in and After the Corona Crisis

18 May 2020

Three members of Slow Food Youth Germany talk about what is on their minds these days and how they are dealing with the situation. As different as they are, their enthusiasm for good and sustainable food already united them in pre-Corona times. Marie Pugachev was driving and listening to the radio when she noticed it. …

A Video Message from Slow Food #SlowFoodSolidarity

30 April 2020

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Slow Food started its campaign #SlowFoodSolidarity, to showcase actions undertaken by Slow Food communities. Throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and the US, Slow Food groups have supported their local communities by various means: from starting food delivers to providing food to health cares workers and the most …

COVID-19: Throughout Eastern Europe and Asia Local Slow Food Networks Adapt to New Challenges

29 April 2020

Even in times of the worldwide lockdowns, hundreds of local Slow Food groups across the globe show examples of #SlowFoodSolidarity. Many Slow Food small-scale farmers, producers and restaurants had to adapt to new challenges, posted by the COVID-19 crisis. Despite quarantines and lockdowns, Slow Food groups throughout Eastern Europe and Asia reacted quickly and found …

Connecting People Who Eat With Those Who Produce

25 April 2020 Ana Mosquera

Food donations, mapping of producers, and organic fairs. In times of crisis, the issue is to drain the production and help those who need it most, but, above all, to connect people “It all started when I saw colleagues from a group of desperate cooks not knowing if they were going to get paid if …

Slow Food Germany: Solidarity and Mutual Support – That’s the Spirit

22 April 2020 Sharon Sheets, Slow Food Deutschland

Dire times call for drastic measures, which for the local groups meant to bring all events and planned activities to a halt, and postpone convivial meetings for the unforeseeable future. To many people of the Slow Food network, including the small- and medium-sized businesses we call our supporters, as well as our Chef Alliance cooks, …

COVID-19: African Slow Food Network Perspective 

20 April 2020 Edie Mukiibi

The coronavirus was declared a global pandemic in March 2020, and it has since spread to over 50 African nations where the confirmed cases have increased exponentially from the few imported to many local infections, which resulted into devastating effects on the health and social-economic welfare. As Africa continues to register more cases daily, many …

Slow Food Italy Stays Strong in Solidarity with Local Communities

6 April 2020

The sense of community, mutual help, attention to the most vulnerable groups or to those who are working for the good of society as a whole, starting with hospital workers, are the feelings emerging most in these weeks of health, economic and social crisis. As Italy was the first country to be hit by COVID-19 …

Supporting Dutch Farmers, Food Producers and Retail in Times of Covid19

1 April 2020 Slow Food Netherlands, Maarten Kuiper

It’s been over two weeks since the World Health Organization officially characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic, and a little over a month since the first registered contagion in the Netherlands. The full impact of the pandemic is anyone’s guess at this point. But in the past weeks, we’ve seen that many people and businesses in …

In Worldwide Lockdowns, Slow Food Acts to Support and Inspire

25 March 2020 Indre Anskaityte

The current outbreak of the coronavirus #COVID19 has disrupted the lives of almost every country in the world. With Europe currently being an epicenter of the pandemic, many countries are under lockdown, with people confined to their homes, schools, and workplaces closed, and only essential businesses still operating. As Slow Food, we want to send …