IGCAT (International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism), proud partners of Slow Food, was present at the online seminar held on Wednesday, 18 June 2025, to launch the new policy brief: “What’s the Deal? Making EU Agrifood Trade Work for Better Food Systems”. The policy brief from Slow Food urges the European Union
The European Commission wants to cut the use of chemical pesticides in half by 2030, as part of its latest plan on sustainability and biodiversity. The EU institution’s announcement, a piece of its ambitious Farm to Fork strategy, aims to make food systems more healthy and environmentally-friendly. The Commission said
Caritas Zambia has appealed to the government to patent local Zambian foods and help local farmers and other food producers retain power over their local food systems. Speaking Friday, this week, when he made a presentation at the Second National Food and Seed Festival in Lusaka, Caritas Zambia Executive Director, Eugene Kabilika
Members of the University of Michigan’s Sustainable Food Systems Initiative reviewed recent academic papers that discuss the United Nations goal of ending hunger and malnutrition worldwide by 2030. They reviewed recent papers from three areas—ecology and agricultural sciences, nutrition and public health, and political economy and policy science—that mentioned the
Climate change will heighten the risk of production shocks across the world’s biggest crop producers, a new study finds. The 1972-74 food price crisis is the stuff of policy legend. At a time when grain prices had been declining for decades, the global price of wheat tripled in the space
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.8 billion. With limited land, and intensive farming already causing irreversible environmental damage, how can we feed the world without exhausting its natural resources? All over Vietnam it’s transplanting season. In every direction farmers with their famous conical hats are pushing
Farm tourism opens up a whole new perspective for inclusive and sustainable agricultural and rural development (Isard) and provides hope for revitalizing the sector as a sunrise, if not a sunshine industry in Southeast Asia. Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit Jr., director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study
Each year on Slow Food’s anniversary, December 10, the global Slow Food network celebrates Terra Madre Day to promote local eating, agricultural biodiversity and sustainable food production. This year’s Terra Madre Day called special attention to the Menu for Change campaign, which highlights the relationship between food and climate change:
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Regional Conference for Europe concluded on May 6, as members called for better nutrition, food security and more sustainable agriculture practices in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next two years in Europe and Central Asia. Improved nutrition and the
