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Focus
18/10/2010
Countdown to Terra Madre
As delegates from around the world begin to arrive in Turin, Italy, anticipation builds for the fourth Terra Madre world meeting which will open this Thursday, bringing together more than 5,000 representatives from the worldwide Terra Madre network.
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Slow Stories
Italy | 18/10/2010 | Twenty-nine new international Slow Food Presidia will be displaying their products at the Salone del Gusto 2010 which opens this Thursday.
Italy | 15/10/2010 | The Valtorta Agri cheese helps preserve the small Italian mountain community which produces it
Tanzania | 13/10/2010 | Slow Food collaborates to create a cookbook of traditional recipes using forgotten indigenous vegetables
United States | 11/10/2010 | Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini’s tour of US universities continues with a visit to Yale, where he calls on young people to be the protagonists of the new food revolution.
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Slow Food Worldwide
A network of 100,000 members in 153 countries – grouped in 1,300 local chapters called convivia – develops activities, projects and events at a local, regional and global level. These currently include:
- More than 5000 Slow Food initiatives each year
- 10,000 small producers involved in 314 Presidia projects
- 903 products at risk of extinction promoted through the Ark of Taste catalog
- 1,300 food education activities and 350 school gardens in 100 countries
- Terra Madre network activities which involve 2,000 food communities, 1,000 cooks, 500 academics and 1,000 young activists
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