“Coffee for Good”: Spilling the Beans on Coffee’s Sustainability in Glasgow, UK 19 January 2024 “Since we attended Terra Madre for the first time last year [2022], we have been discussing how to promote better coffee drinking in Glasgow—by choosing coffee that’s good for the environment and for those producing it. Now, as beneficiaries of the Slow Food Negroni Week fund, we have designed an initiative that delivers: Coffee for …
Promoting Women as Protagonists of Gastronomy in Mar del Plata, Argentina 19 December 2023 Gender disparity is a pervasive problem in the global food system, and in few sectors is this as prominent as in the gastronomy and restaurant industry. Data from the US shows that while women represent 69% of entry-level restaurant workers, they make up only 19% of chefs, 7% of head chefs and just 38% of …
The EU must not lower its guard on food safety 11 December 2023 By Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food On the occasion of the Council meeting of European Agriculture and Fisheries ministers on 10 and 11 December, this opinion piece by Carlo Petrini was published in La Repubblica and sent to all EU ministers on 10 December. On December 10 and 11, EU agriculture ministers have gathered …
A Slow Food Academy to Protect Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems 4 December 2023 Indigenous peoples’ food systems are suffering erosion at an alarming rate, encroached upon by unsustainable, industrialized agricultural models that respect neither climate nor culture. The replacement of these foods results not only in a dwindling of cultural and biological diversity, but jeopardizes the resilience of our global food system. Indigenous peoples’ communities all over the …
A Call for Peace 29 November 2023 We are all deeply affected by yet another terrible conflict. We are in touch with our local leaders in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, and all they wish for is for an immediate end to all violence and the building of peace, just like all of us. We make again a call to all to …
They Will Feed Us: A Counter Narrative to Africa’s Corporate-Led Food Systems 29 November 2023 Edward Mukiibi, Slow Food President Imagine a continent blessed with plentiful natural resources and fertile land that could on the whole ensure its food security. Imagine that those indigenous to this continent were endowed with generations of knowledge and traditions in the ecologically sustainable cultivation of the land. And yet, this continent – Africa – faces the triple burden of …
Health with Taste: Slow Food’s Ongoing Journey in AlUla 29 November 2023 In the heart of Saudi Arabia, Slow Food is cultivating a rich gastronomic transformation, sowing seeds for a movement that reaches beyond traditional culinary boundaries. Thanks to the collaboration between the Italian Embassy in Riyadh and the Royal Commission for AlUla, as part of the celebrations for the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, …
Slow Food: Food Will Be at the Heart of COP28, But How? 28 November 2023 Agroecology must lead the way to shaping a new food system After COP27 dedicated a pavilion to food for the first time, food and food systems now will be at the center of the discussions in Dubai, where the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) is about …
The Slow Wine Coalition heads to Spain 27 November 2023 Representatives of the Slow Wine Coalition, the inclusive, collaborative and international network that brings together the protagonists of the wine world, participated in several events in Spain. The first was the Most Festival in the Spanish Penedès region. Most is an international event, one of the last in Europe, that collects the best audiovisual production …
EU Parliament tears apart the ambition to reduce pesticides in Europe 22 November 2023 Today, a majority of the European Parliament rejected the Commission proposal to reduce the use of pesticides in the EU, a pillar of the EU Green Deal, falling for the lobbying efforts from the agro-industry. As Rapporteur MEP Sarah Wiener puts it, “today is a very dark day for the environment and farmers”. During the …