Slow Food Gardens in Africa: sustainable water management techniques with terracotta jars 13 December 2022 Draughts and water scarcity are becoming a very present issue in our daily life. Let’s learn from Boujemaa Gueghlan and Amanuel Menna how farmers in Africa have, over the decades, been using terracotta jars as a solution to guarantee...
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...
New Slow Food Presidium in Morocco: Rif Einkorn Wheat 4 September 2018 Slow Food launches a new Presidium to prevent the extinction of an ancient Moroccan wheat variety. The Presidium for Rif Einkorn Wheat becomes Morocco's 5th.
The Kabalo Peace Garden: A Seed of Hope in the Democratic Republic of Congo 20 February 2018 The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the largest country in Africa. Characterized by a rich biodiversity of plants and animals, as well as being home to over 450 ethnic groups, the country has long been shaken by successive...
Slow Food Coffee Festival is back: Celebrating Uganda’s Special Coffee Varieties 16 February 2018 The event will launch a network of producers of native Ugandan coffee varieties at risk of extinction Celebrating Uganda’s Special Coffee Varieties, the third edition of the Slow Food Coffee Festival, will take place at Mayor’s Gardens Mable in Mbale, Eastern Uganda,...
Terra Madre Burkina Faso: Voices From the First Terra Madre in West Africa 25 June 2017 The name Burkina Faso translates as “land of honest people,” and this beautiful, fascinating country on the western Africa is home to over 60 ethnic groups—and as many languages—who have inherited an enormous cultural and environmental wealth which translates...
Ugandan Fish Heritage for the first time at Slow Fish 18 May 2017 Uganda, also known as the pearl of Africa, is known for hosting Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world and the source of the Nile—the longest river in the world—along with other freshwater bodies which for...
Slow Food Uganda launches its second Earth Market in Manafwa 12 April 2017 The Manafwa farmers’ market is joining Slow Food international project of Earth Markets. The Manafwa market, established in 2017 thanks to the Slow Food Uganda network, is the second Ugandian Slow Food Earth Market, after the Mukono-Wakiso Earth Market....
Ugandan coffee: a host of varieties for you to discover at a dedicated festival 13 February 2017 From the Nyasaland Arabica of Mount Elgon, intercropped with ginger and lemongrass, to the Nganda Robusta promoted by the youngsters of Bukunja, to the Kisansa of Luwero, in the Zirobwe district, which grows in the shade of forest trees:...
