Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             A Slow Voice in Policy Reform 16 Jul 10 - Sloweb Slow Food International President Carlo Petrini will participate in the public debate conference on the future of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU’s system of agricultural subsidies and programs. At “CAP post-2013”, taking place in Brussels on July 19 and 20 and convened by Dacian Ciolos, the European commissioner responsible for agriculture and rural development, Petrini will advocate the Slow Food philosophy: We need to change the industrialized, reductionist, market-oriented food system and remember the links between food and people and to work with the heritage of traditional knowledge. Quality agriculture must be based on the protection of regional specialties that have historically been the characteristic of Europe. Petrini will chair one of the parallel sessions, a discussion workshop entitled “The Future Role of the CAP in Promoting the Quality and Diversity of Food Supply.” This will be an important recognition of Slow Food’s role and its work in Europe and the world. It is also a positive sign of attention towards those values the association works towards: protection of small-scale artisanal food production, defense of plant and animal biodiversity, conservation of the rural environment and a revaluation of the role of agriculture as a potential driving force for the economy. Slow Food has contributed to the online debate with a document which can be read on the European Commission’s website (in the stakeholders section). In brief, “We need a transition from a set of political instruments that act on agriculture to a food policy based on the links between economy, territory and people, links that are crucial to development. Agriculture plays – or can play – a crucial role in many sectors, from health to climate change, from rights to economy, from education to biodiversity protection, but what matters is the capacity to create coherent policies connected to several areas, adding this challenge to the one already inherent in the creation of connected – and binding – policies between member States.” Click here for the full article. Click here for Slow Food’s stakeholders contribution   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     United States - 01 Sep 10     Eataly in New York     The philosophy and campaigns promoted by Slow Food over the past twenty years to strengthen regional, tasty and sustainable food, and reconnect consumers with the origin of their food, have...           News archive     Brazil - 17 Aug 10     Gastromotiva     Terra Madre chef and Slow Food convivium empower disadvantaged youth to enter culinary careers ...     Russia - 16 Aug 10     Biodiversity Hangs in the Balance     Slow Food joins the protest against destruction of Europe’s largest repository of rare fruit ...     United Kingdom - 13 Aug 10     Food Justice     Slow Food UK praises social justice report’s call for action ...     Philippines - 10 Aug 10     Against the Grain     The Indigenous Taguibong people in the Philippines continue to practice the traditional rice threshing and milling methods of their ancestors ...     Georgia - 05 Aug 10     Meeting in the Birthplace of the Vine     First Terra Madre Georgia held with a focus on wine and small producers ...     Italy - 03 Aug 10     Strengthening the Indigenous Voice     Slow Food enters into a partnership to advocate for indigenous groups around the world ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab