Biodiversity means health, ours and that of the planet 21 May 2021
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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 food with a lower impact on non-renewable resources and fewer external inputs, like pesticides. It is essential for our survival.”
Let’s look for a moment at the other side of the coin, at intensive agriculture, the system that is wiping out biodiversity at every level:
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto Closes its Doors after 205 Days and 1160 Events 12 May 2021
An extraordinary edition that has created a cultural heritage and put forward a clear vision of real ecological transition
The curtain has come down on the 13th edition of
Slow Food, the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region. Refusing to give in to Covid-19, Terra Madre showed its great spirit of resilience through a revolutionized format. The events were predominantly digital, held over
205 days and organized by the Slow Food network and its partners in
75 countries, reaching a total of more than
10 million digital profiles in 202 countries.
vinculadas a Slow Food (“strengthening conservation models and sustainable resource use in protected areas of the Caribbean linked to Slow Food”) is coming to an end.
Based on the promotion of marine-coastal resources and the different cultures that depend on them, the project’s activities allowed for a diversification of production, restored value to the area’s symbolic products, strengthened production processes linked to artisanal fishing, and supported of the transformation and commercialisation of traditional gastronomy, including the Black Crab of Providencia and the Spiny Lobster of Banco Chinchorro and Sian Ka’an, both of which are now Slow Food Presidia.
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Food and health: a month of themed events 28 January 2021
A series of events to show how the secret to health and well-being (ours and our planet’s) can be found in the food we eat every day.
Sandor Katz, David Quammen and Antonia Trichopoulou will be among the experts involved on the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto platform.
A good diet and an active lifestyle are the best way to ensure a long, healthy life. What’s more, choosing foods made using methods that preserve agrobiodiversity and have a low impact on the climate crisis is the most effective and concrete individual everyday action we can all take to protect the planet.