Slow Food Coffee Coalition on a mission at World of Coffee in Milan 6 July 2022 Three intense days under the banner of good, clean, and fair coffee, in an international context with producers and roasters who flocked to Milan for the WoC from all the far corners of the planet to meet and design...
Mexico joins the Slow Food Coffee Coalition 7 June 2022 By Stephany Escamilla Femat Mexico is the northernmost coffee-growing country in the Americas. Something distinguishing Mexican coffee from other countries is that more than 90% of it is produced under shade, with cover ranging from 50% to 84%. That...
The true price of coffee: the bitter aftertaste of seasonal migration and child labor in Guatemala 7 June 2022 By: Lucía Rivera Lima The food industry is full of “dark sides” that need to step into the light for us to see. Coffee is no exception. This time, we will explore the relationship between coffee as a commodity...
Ugandan coffee communities protecting diversity and quality 7 June 2022 By John Wanyu The Slow Food coffee growers from Uganda are working hard to protect the diversity and quality of their products. To achieve their goals, they participate in a campaign regarding the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) model that is currently...
How coffee shaped Colombia 6 May 2022 By Maria Jose Parra For many decades, Colombia has held a strong reputation for its single-origin coffee. It has suitable land to produce one of the most sought-after mild Arabica in the world. It Represents a crucial product for...
Discovering Luwero Kisansa Coffee 6 May 2022 Uganda is Africa’s second-largest coffee producer, after Ethiopia. While the Ethiopian highlands are the birthplace of Coffea arabica, the equatorial forests of Central and East Africa are home to Coffea canephora, better known as robusta. Robusta is most commonly used...
Ugandan Farmers in the EU Spotlight 6 May 2022 By Lorenz Stöckert In the fall of 2020, I started working with the Miale Tubana Mixed Farmers Collective from Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda. The new member of Slow Food‘s Coffee Coalition and established Slow Food Presidium is cultivating and...
The arrival of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition in the Philippines 10 February 2022 You may not have heard of coffee in the Philippines before, but its history begins in 1740, when coffee was first planted by a Spanish monk in Lipa, a town south of Manila, making this city the coffee capital...
The Spain you least expect: Vanesa Bustos’ Valencian “threads of God” 13 January 2022 The chef and a cooking instructor Vanesa Bustos will bring the Spanish flavors to the table in this edition of: In Cucina con Slow Food. A format of Slow Food Italy where Chefs of the Alliance share techniques, experiences,...
A garden in Africa for Alberto 22 September 2021 Creating good, clean and fair vegetable gardens in African schools and communities: back in 2010, this was the main objective with which Slow Food launched the Gardens in Africa project in Turin during the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto,...
