Slow food feast at expo 2015

Highlights the role of biodiversity and young farmers in feeding the planet

Slow Food will have its own space during the six months of Expo and from October 3-6, the Slow Food Youth Network will hold the “Terra Madre Youth – We Feed the Planet” event, gathering young farmers from around the world

Slow Food will have a 3,500m2 space designed by Herzog & de Meuron, one of the world’s most famous architecture studios. Its aim is to explain the significance of biodiversity in the context of the bigger picture of the global food system and thus to demonstrate why it is so important to preserve it, as well as linking it to the positive solutions that have already been achieved in the fields of food security, sustainability and a fairer distribution of food resources.

The section on the website dedicated to Slow Food’s participation at Expo is now online at: http://www.slowfood.com/expo2015/en/

The focus for Expo 2015, which will be held in Milan from May 1 to October 31, is Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, a topic that Slow Food has been working on since its beginnings.

The Slow Food space will not be located in the Italian pavilion but at the end of the Decumano, because Slow Food, although created in Italy, now has a consolidated international presence. The Slow Food area consists of three entirely wooden structures whose shape evokes the typical farmhouses of Lombardy’s rural landscape. The structures can be easily disassembled, moved and reused somewhere else after the six-month event. The three wooden structures are arranged in a triangle and can all be visited free of charge.

The Slow Food space will take the visitor on a sensorial experience with the first area featuring a biodiversity path, an educational exhibition area that includes photos, videos, interactive games and art installations. This area presents the current problems of the food system and offers many positive, practical solutions that are within everyone’s reach.

An additional event, Terra Madre – We Feed the Planet, will be held in Milan from October 3 to 6, and will bring several thousand young Terra Madre delegates from around the world to Milan. Terra Madre meetings have long been an important opportunity for exchange.

This Milanese edition of Terra Madre is Slow Food’s political response to Expo 2015 and will give a starring role to the young people working in food production, with thousands of farmers, food artisans, fishers, nomads, Indigenous Peoples, chefs, students and activists from all over the world.

Read Slow Food president Carlo Petrini’s full appeal aimed at communities of young producers, in various languages: http://slowfood.com/expo2015/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ENG_appello.pdf

Further information about Expo2015 HERE http://www.travelmole.com/news_feature.php?news_id=2015073

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