Slow food and biodiversity

Loving the Earth - Meet the people protecting biodiversity every day

Gjystina Grishaj, age 56, Albania

"Life isn’t easy in Kelmend: The winter is long, we lack many services and it takes hours on an unpaved road to reach the bottom of the valley."

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Ibrahim Mansaray, age 40, Sierra Leone

"In 1996, rebels attacked my village and captured me. I was only nine years old. At their camp, I was trained to shoot and to kill."

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Dalí Nolasco Cruz, age 27, Mexico

"I am an indigenous Nahua and I live in Tlaola, in the State of Puebla, Mexico. Together with twelve other women I cultivate the Tlaola serrano chili pepper on terraced land."

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2608 gardens in Africa that involve more than 50.000 people,

513 Presidia and 57 Earth Markets to support the work of over 20,000 producers in 84 countries,

more than 3000 chefs who work with small-scale producers,

6000 submissions for products to save on the Ark of Taste.

This is the work of the Slow Food network, made up of more than a million people in 160 countries across the world.

To continue saving an immense heritage of vegetable varieties, animal breeds, products and traditional knowledge at risk of extinction, to support small-scale producers and to protect the planet's resources from pollution, deforestation and the damage caused by industrial agriculture, the network needs help to defend the future of thousands of farmers, shepherds, fishers and food artisans who love the earth, we can save biodiversity and guarantee good, clean and fair food for all.

Why is saving biodiversity important?â€¨ Over the past 10,000 years, humans have selected thousands of plant varieties. In just 70 years, we have lost 75 percent of them.

More details about the Slow Food network........

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