Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             Terra Madre meets Salone del Gusto 20 Oct 08 - Sloweb This year the two major events in the Slow Food calendar—Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre—will come together as one at the Lingotto Fiere Exhibition Center in Torino from October 23 to 26. A series of conferences have been organized to celebrate the marriage. The first will be entitled ‘The New Slow Food Presidia Project in Italy’ (Lingotto, pav.3, Sala Cittaslow) and will taken place on Friday October 24 at 12noon. Born in late 1998 and presented for the first time at the Salone del Gusto in 2000, Slow Food Presidia are one of the most significant projects created in recent years to defend Italian agricultural and food biodiversity. There are now more than 100 projects in the international Slow Food Presidia network. In Italy a new phase of the project is seeking to consolidate the alliance between producers and Slow Food, define ambitious new objectives to secure ‘good, clean and fair’ food and, for the first time, propose a label to clearly identify products fully complying with the commitments undertaken. Speakers will be Roberto Burdese, coordinator of the GMO-Free Italy-Europe Coalition and president of Slow Food Italy; Federico Santamaria, food producer and coordinator of Ligurian Slow Food Presidia; Marilù Monte, food producer and coordinator of Slow Food Monreale White Plums Presidium; Massimo Spigaroli, food producer and coordinator of the Slow Food Culatello di Zibello A second conference, again at 12 noon on Friday October 24, will be dedicated to ‘The Future of the Climate and Food’ (Lingotto, Sala Gialla). Following the Manifesto on the Future of Food in 2003, and the Manifesto on the Future of Seeds in 2006, the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, set up by the Tuscany Regional Authority and chaired by Vandana Shiva, now presents the Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security. This essential document sums up the main problems and offers potential solutions to reverse the ongoing trend. Speakers will be Carlo Petrini, president of Slow Food; Vandana Shiva, activist, scientist, vice-president of Slow Food and president of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture; Claudio Martini, president of the Tuscany Regional Authority. The meeting will be moderated by Berward Geier, member of the International Commission for the Future of Food and Agriculture and director of the German consultancy company Colabora. For more information please visit www.salonedelgusto.com or www.terramadre.org   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     Italy - 05 Feb 10     Pasta Madre     Farmers, academics, researchers, and members of the public will gather in Bologna this weekend as the city becomes host to Pasta Madre, Slow Food's two-day event focusing on bread, pasta...           News archive     France - 04 Feb 10     Europe Edges Towards Bluefin Ban     France announces their support for trade ban on blufin tune caught in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. ...     China - 03 Feb 10     China Considers Dog and Cat Meat Ban     Defenders of traditional cuisine and animal rights activists battle over potential ban on eating dog and cat meat in China ...     Paraguay - 01 Feb 10     Greenwashing for Beef Land     A Brazilian cattle-ranching company has been exposed for illegally bulldozing land belonging to a native tribe in Paraguay ...     Turkey - 29 Jan 10     First Slow Cities in Turkey and USA     New Slow Cities on the Californian and Ageana Coastlines ...     United States - 28 Jan 10     Freedom Food     Prisons launch grow-your-own schemes for inmates ...     Australia - 26 Jan 10     Slow Australians Awarded     Second-longest Australian Slow Food member named a Australian of the Year 2010 ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab