SlowFood

Slow Food is an international, grassroots membership-based organisation with a network of around 100,000 members in almost 150 countries. Slow Food seeks to create a broad cultural shift in the relationship people around the world have with food. It envisions a world where everyone has access to good, clean and fair food: ‘good’ represents culturally-appropriate taste quality, health and pleasure of eating, ‘clean’ represents food production and consumption that does not harm the environment or workers’ health, and ‘fair’ represents both accessible prices for consumers and equitable wages for producers. Slow Food works to defend biodiversity and to promote a sustainable and environmentally friendly food production and consumption system; to spread sensory education and responsible consumption; and to connect producers of quality foods with co-producers (consumers) through events and initiatives.
The Terra Madre network of food communities was launched by Slow Food in 2004 to give a voice and visibility to the smallscale farmers, breeders, fishers and food artisans around the world whose approach to food production protects the environment and communities. The network brings them together with academics, cooks, consumers and youth groups so that they can join forces in working to improve the food system. Food communities gather every two years at the global meeting held in Turin, whilst national and regional meetings are regularly organized around the world.