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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 …

Australia’s Beekeeper Strengthen Community Amidst the Crisis

22 March 2020

Slow Food communities from around the world keep working to strengthen the network they have created in the past 30 years as part of the Slow Food Movement for a good, clean, fair food system. We received this uplifting message from the beekeepers in Swan Valley and Eastern Regions Slow Food and SA and WA Apiarists’ …

Slow Food Europe: The New EU Biodiversity Strategy Must Protect Bees and Pollinators

13 February 2020

As the European Commission is expected to launch the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy this March, Slow Food Europe urges the Commission to take the necessary measures to drastically reduce the use of pesticides and industrial farming to ensure the protection of pollinators. In its recent feedback on the new strategy, Slow Food Europe also draws attention to agricultural land, which should become “part of …

European Parliament Votes to Protect Pollinators

25 October 2019

The importance of bees to global food security is well-established: the FAO has identified at least 87 crops which depend on bees for pollination, and the volume of agricultural production which is dependent on bees and other pollinators has grown by 300% over the last 50 years[1]. Just a few months ago, the Earthwatch Institute …

On World Bee Day Slow Food Launches an Action to Save the Bees

17 May 2019

On May 20, World Bee Day, Slow Food launches an international “Slow Bees” action, aiming to rise in defense of pollinators and provide greater resonance, outreach and visibility to the threats bees and other pollinators, plants and biodiversity face today. Around 75% of global food crops rely on animal pollination. According to the FAO (Food …

Happy World Bee Day!

20 May 2018

For the UN World Bee Day on May 20, Slow Food is taking the opportunity to publicly call for the appreciation and protection of bees. Intensive agriculture, the increasing destruction of semi-natural habitats, and the use of pesticides deprive bees of their food resources and habitats. “As pollinators, bees are responsible for the production of …

Slow Food joins Pesticide Action Week

20 March 2018

Call for a Pesticide-Free Spring: This year, Slow Food joins the Pesticide Action Week! The 13th edition of the Pesticide Action Week is starting. Along with other organizations, Slow Food is participating in the initiative, organized by the French anti-pesticide advocates, Générations Futures (future generations): this year, the focus is on Food Issues, a theme …

Climate change: will we still be able to wake up and smell the coffee?

5 October 2017 Maurizio Bongioanni

We’re about to share some news that might come as a blow to many of you: in the not-too-distant future, waking up to the aromatic scent of freshly brewed coffee might become nothing more than a memory, thanks to the effects global warming. Some coffee-growing areas of Latin America could be unable to sustain the …

Glyphosate Malaise: Are Ridiculously Cheap Foods and Clean, Tidy Fields Really Worth the Cost?

20 June 2017 Cinzia Scaffidi

Slow Food discusses the issues around what is the most commonly used active substance in agriculture today and offers tips on avoiding it in the foods you eat or grow.

#Hunger4Bees: Declining Bee Populations and Our Food

27 March 2017 Monica Pellicca & Adelina Zarlenga

A multimedia report by journalists Monica Pelliccia and Adelina Zarlenga and photographer Daniela Frechero uses four stories from Italy and India to show the impact of fewer bees on our diets and our health.