Slow Food

Slow Food is a global movement acting together to ensure good, clean, and fair food for all. Founded in Italy in 1986, the organisation has since then expanded to activities in all EU countries and overall, in more than 160 countries worldwide.

Slow Food cultivates a worldwide network of local communities and activists who defend cultural and biological diversity, promote food education as well as the transfer of traditional knowledge and skills, and influence policies in public and private sectors. They pursue those three priorities simultaneously, as Slow Food believe that is the only way to ensure impactful change.  Slow Food do so through programmes, campaigns and initiatives involving all actors across the food system, as well as through the diverse grassroots initiatives developed by their local groups worldwide.

The climate crisis and food are strictly interrelated, since the way food is produced, processed, distributed, and consumed plays a key role. Food can either contribute to climate change or help tackle it. Slow Food are promoting and developing grassroots initiatives to tackle climate change.