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Terra Madre Day
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Nov 30, 2009, 13:00

The very first worldwide Terra Madre Day is to be held on December 10, 2009. Events across 150 countries will celebrate locally produced food. The emphasis being that it is healthy, tastes good and is produced without harming the environment and with social justice issues being taken into consideration.

Terra Madre is the world's largest network of food organisations. It comprises more than 2,000 communities, food producers, cooks, educators and youth, whose everyday actions play an important role in the safeguarding of food, the environment and traditional culture. The project was conceived by Slow Food, which itself has 100,000 members, organised across local groups.

December 10 is Slow Food's 20th anniversary, which it has chosen to celebrate by organising Terra Madre Day. People from all corners of the world are planning a wide range of activities including local gatherings and large-scale events. The celebrations will be as diverse and unique as the communities holding them from a shared dinner under an elephant at the Tolouse Natural history museum in France, to a community folk festival in Bangladesh, and a fish canning party in the USA.

The celebrations hope to raise awareness of the importance of eating locally, as well as the value of traditional knowledge and the right for all communities to build and maintain access to good food that is produced and traded responsibly. In order to build support for grassroots local economies, Slow Food aims to strengthen relationships among the network's members.

View the map on the Terra Madre Day website to find events going on around the world:
www.slowfood.com/terramadreday/pagine/eng/mappa.lasso
 
For further info on Slow Food: www.slowfood.com
For further info on Terra Madre: www.terramadre.org



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