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#FoodforChange – 7 Golden Rules to Fight Waste

19 October 2018

As horrible pictures and videos of swamps of rubbish and the consequences of treating our planet as a tip have grabbed attention this year, many have become more sensitive to waste sand plastic pollution. Calls to ban straw and plastic bags in many countries show a positive change in how people are thinking about waste. …

Chefs Committed to Food Sustainability Gather at Slow Food Nations in The Spirit Of #foodforchange

13 July 2018

Our food system is responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. By inspiring people around the world to be more mindful about food, chefs are paying tribute to Earth’s bounty. This edition of Slow Food Nations welcomes cooks particularly committed to supporting the theme of the event, #foodforchange. Food for Change is the revolution that …

World Disco Soup Day 2018: How 20 tonnes of food waste made people and the planet happy for a day!

5 June 2018 David McKenzie

On every other day, the sight of 20 000 kilograms of food, enough to fill a huge shipping container, would cause sadness and shock. On the 28th of April, though, it got tens of thousands of people all over the world to celebrate, dance and eat together! All in the name of World Disco Soup …

World Disco Soup Day 2018 is Almost Here!

24 April 2018 Simone Luijckx

The big day is almost upon us! The incredible moment for (young) food activists to fight food waste all over the world, is almost here! World Disco Soup Day is this weekend! So far, we are expecting more than 90 events worldwide! Chefs, volunteers, activists, and farmers will collect, chop, cook and dance from Japan to …

Halloween Special: Pumpkin Waste, Trick or Treat?

31 October 2017

It’s that time of year again, and across much of the Western world today millions of children will be carving pumpkins and going from door to door on the hunt for candy. And what’s even scarier than ghosts and witches? Food waste. While around a third of all food produced globally goes to waste, this …

Overthrow the market! Choose wisely, and don’t waste!

19 October 2017 Valentine Chevrier

I live in Paris and, like anyone who lives in a big city, I sometimes find myself shopping in large supermarkets. In the past, passing through the aisles overflowing with products, I often asked myself where all those unsold fresh goods ended up, but I never investigated further into the question, believing, deep down, to …

Simran Sethi on Biodiversity, Food Waste, and Climate Change

30 June 2017 kirt dennis

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi (author of Bread, Wine and Chocolate, recently translated into italian by Slow Food Editore) took some time from her Italian book tour to visit the Slow Food headquarters in Bra and talk to us about three topics with which we are all deeply concerned. She suggests new ways to talk about …