Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweek - On-line News by Slow Food Sloweek Archive     Slow Food at UN Indigenous Meeting Slow Food President Carlo Petrini speaks about food sovereignty today, as the ...     Keep Out! Italian author and director Stefano Liberti talks about the privatization of land, ...     Power to the People From dumping organic potatoes in central Amsterdam to handing out food on the Paris ...         News     Search:     Voices from the Slow world:     News from Terramadre     Carlo Petrini at UN Headquarters on May 14 07 May 12 Slow Food President Carlo Petrini will speak at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) on May 14 on the right to food and food sovereignty. ...       News from Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity     A Tuscan branch to report on Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity projects 24 Jan 11 Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity President Piero Sardo, signed a convention that schedules the opening of a center to represent the Slow Food Foundation in...       News from University Gastronomic Sciences     September Program at UNISG Pollenzo Campus Inaugurates School of Higher Studies in Food Policy and Sustainability 22 Jun 09 Pollenzo, September 11 - 13 ...       Watch & Listen     Visit our new multimedia section! 22 Jun 07 Where you will find audio, video and text files to listen to, watch and download. ...           Slow Talk 14 May 12     Indigenous Cultures and Food Sovereignty by Carlo Petrini Slow Food President Carlo Petrini spoke today, Monday May 14, 2012, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the first guest speaker to be invited in its ten-year history. He gave the following speech as part of the half-day discussion on the right of indigenous people to food and food sovereignty. I am honored to be here with you today and to take part in this discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples to food and food sovereignty. I wish to thank Doctor Mirna Cunningham, president of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and all the various indigenous partners for inviting the Slow Food movement. For twenty-five years now, Slow Food has sought to preserve agricultural and food biodiversity as a tool for ensuring a future for our planet and humanity as a whole. Combined with climate change, the progressive loss of diversity of plant and animal species could prove a terrible scourge in the years to come. It is necessary to point out, though, that it would be senseless to defend biodiversity without also defending the cultural diversity of peoples and their right to govern their own territories. The right of peoples to have control over their land, to grow food, to hunt, fish and gather according to their own needs and decisions, is inalienable. This diversity is the greatest creative force on earth, the only condition possible for the maintenance and transmission of an outstanding heritage of knowledge to future generations. Slow Food has based its existence on these principles and to maintain them it has built a network of food communities that has now spread to over 170 countries. The network, which is called             India - 14 May 12     A Rare Encounter     In 2011, one of the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) international study trips took students to the forests of Meghalaya in the north east of India to experience the ancient...         News archive     Netherlands - 11 May 12     Copper and Competence     The revival of stroop - the traditional Dutch fruit syrup that requires a copper cauldron, heritage fruits and a master’s touch... ...     04 May 12     Ea(S)t Africa - Part 2     From Nairobi to Nakuru: second journal entry following a trip to visit Slow Food and Terra Madre projects in East Africa... ...     Sierra Leone - 02 May 12     Banana Akara     Recipe for a sweet banana and rice flour fritter from Sierra Leone, as published in the new Slow Food cookbook "Earth to Table" that highlights the...     27 Apr 12     Ea(S)t Africa - Part 1     From Nairobi to Gachie: first journal entry following a visit to Slow Food and Terra Madre projects in East Africa... ...     Italy - 27 Apr 12     Communicating Food Sustainability     An international seminar organized by UNISG and the US-Italy Fulbright Commission to take place on May 2… ...     Ecuador - 23 Apr 12     ¡Que rico es!     A national campaign launched in Ecuador to promote better food choices for healthy people and land… ...     Archive       Slow Talk Archive       Previous news archive   Slow Food 2012 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab