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Salt of the Earth
12 Jul 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
During the last trip organized by the Slow Food Foundation, we visited the Rif, one of the poorest and most disquieting areas of the country.
Preserving Figs and a Gastronomic Heritage
25 Jun 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
A new Presidium has been created in Macedonia, in the heart of the Balkan peninsula. The Wild Fig Slatko Presidium is the first for this small country, for centuries a crossroads of people, religions and cultures, now a hidden treasure of gastronomic and cultural traditions.
Cacao brings Ecuador and Mexico together
25 May 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
In April three representatives of the Chontalpa Cacao Presidium from Mexico visited the Cacao Nacional Presidium in Ecuador. During their week-long visit, the Mexican producers were able to look round the cacao plantations, observe the fermentation and drying facilities, see where the chocolate was made, meet the managers of the cooperative and study the organization at all stages of the chain.
The Brittany which is holding on between the land and the sea
08 Apr 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, represented by its President Piero Sardo, Mariagiulia Mariani and Olivier Porte for Slow Food France, has just completed a visit to the southern part of the region to see and support some initiatives against intensive industrial agriculture and to create the Breton Pie Noir Presidium.
News from the Kiskunsàg region of Hungary
19 Mar 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
From February 7 to 10, Michele Rumiz, in charge of Slow Food Foundation activities in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, visited the Presidium and met the local coordinator, Olga Rendek, to discuss project developments and organize the Hungarian delegation attending Terra Madre 2010.
The ancient date varieties of Egypt
23 Feb 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
At Siwa, the Slow Food Foundation, in collaboration with SCDEC (Siwa Community Development Environmental Conservation) and the fair trade project Macondo - Sustainable Trade, created the Siwa Date Presidium in 2006. The project aimed to protect the ancient date varieties, known for their fresh, soft and sweet properties but at risk of extinction.
Towards high quality cacao
03 Feb 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The Slow Food Foundation has funded a training seminar for the producers of the Chontalpa Cacao Presidium.
Slow Kenya
19 Jan 10 - News from Slow Food Foundation
Slow Food supports reconstruction of livelihoods and rediscovery of traditional foods in Kenya
On the Roof of the World
22 Dec 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
Among the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan, a Presidium is created to protect mulberry production
Sustainable packaging to communicate the excellence of Presidia products
15 Dec 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The Slow Food Foundation has launched a collaboration with DoDesign-s, a dynamic design and communication studio in Belo Horizonte which particularly focuses on fair-trade consultancy work, providing marketing and sustainable packaging assistance to South American Presidia.
The Earth Markets come to Milan
09 Dec 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The Milan Earth Market will open for the first time on Saturday December 12 from 9am to 3pm in Largo Marinai d’Italia.
Beans from the Rhodope Mountains
25 Nov 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
A new Slow Food Presidium was created in Bulgaria to protect Smilyan beans, produced in the upper Arda valley of the Rhodope mountains, close to the border with Greece by a small community of mountain dwellers.
The Targul Taranului of Bucharest becomes an Earth Market
11 Nov 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The international Earth Markets network is further expanding now that the Slow Food International President’s Committee has approved the candidature of Bucharest’s Targul Taranului (literally “farmers’ market”).
Two new Presidia in Italy
02 Oct 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The list of Italian Presidia is extended with the entry of two new products: Viterbo Susianella (Lazio) and Castelpoto Red Sausage (Campania).
New Norwegian Ark of Taste Products
25 Sep 09 - News from Slow Food Foundation
The Norwegian Commission, led by Ove Fosså, continues to select products which would otherwise risk disappearing or being forgotten. The selection of Ark products is a careful process, which is always seeking out possible new candidates: they are all extraordinary products boasting a long history and traditions. Here are the latest arrivals.
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