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Dec 11, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
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.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
Agroecology must lead the way to shaping a new food systemAfter 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 to start. The conference in the United Arab Emirates will run from 30 November to 12 December, 2023.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
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 related to the culture of the vineyard, wine and cava, bringing it to the screen.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
En noviembre se cumplen 11 años desde que el Mercado de la Tierra echó raíces en la comunidad de Bogotá. El Mercado de la Tierra de Slow Food organiza durante todo el mes de noviembre una serie de eventos para celebrar los 11 años de su apertura.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
Nuestra comunidad Gastronomía Consciente, Guatemala City, se fundó en abril del año 2021. Somos una comunidad reciente que tuvo el honor de asistir al Terra Madre 2022.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
“Ellos son gigantes, pero nosotros somos multitud». Esta es una de las frases que utilizamos a menudo, como Slow Food, para dejar clara la importancia del poder de la red para lograr cambios en nuestro sistema alimentario. Hoy os contamos una extraordinaria iniciativa que ha desarrollado la red española de Slow Food y que está teniendo un efecto de lo más disparatado en varias comunidades locales.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
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”.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
Our campaign FlashCOP is getting super close! We’re now one week away from it and we could not be more excited. Over 40 communities are gearing up to set their FlashCOP tables, uniting to spread our powerful messages across the globe. The enthusiasm is contagious, and we’re thrilled to be a part of something so impactful. What’s #FlashCOP? #FlashCOP is a new campaign planned to be held on the 25th of November, in the run-up to COP28.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
Europeans care deeply about animal welfare. In 2020, 1.4 million EU citizens signed a petition to no longer allow for farm animals to be kept in cages, a campaign that Slow Food actively promoted together with other civil society groups. The call for better animal welfare legislation was supported by the European Parliament and became a “flagship” element of the Farm to Fork strategy.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
slowfood.com | Giulia Capaldi
The Agroecology Week of Action, organized by Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda, served as a platform for like-minded Civil Society Organizations, and individuals to come together and uphold the cause of agroecology. From the National Agroecology Actors Symposium, Agroecology Market Systems Expo, to the Indigenous Food and Seed Fair, the five-day event was a dynamic and comprehensive display of the power and potential of agroecology.
