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Carlo Petrini

Vandana Shiva

Delegates taking a break

Network area

Gabon Delegate Noel Angoneva, President of sustainable agriculture organization Geder Gabon, in a meeting with Australian Delegates to discuss a joint project.

Graham, Iwi Puihi, Mitai and Sharon from the New Zealand delegation at lunch time.

Women from the Gabon delegation in a meeting

The Australian delegation

Terra Madre’s 1,000 cooks and chefs patiently wait to have their picture taken.

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It’s about 5:45 pm on Sunday the 29th of October. I’m outside Salone del Gusto, sitting on a piece of concrete and the sky is lavender. Dark gray clouds pensively float past the red ferris wheel–like bridgey thing that’s omnipresent here at the Lingotto. I just left the Terra Madre Network area—Blogland, I’ve been calling it, since I’ve been facilitating blogging there by TM delegates over the past few days. The Terra Madre Blog is Slow Food genius Winnie Yang’s baby, and I am oh-so-proud to have both posted here, and as of now, helped a few other people do the same, some for the very first time.

I like blogging. I believe in it for myself and for others. And I also know there are a lot of barriers to doing it for the first time. Technology for one (especially when odd things happen with wifi access timing out), but also writing confidence, having a sense of who you’re even blogging to, access to a computer in the first place.... The list goes on. But seeing all those first- and second-time bloggers posting has done this quasi-geek’s heart a world of good, and makes me believe all those barriers are eminently surmountable.

Some may believe that there’s too much information already online, that we can’t possibly read it all and it doesn’t serve the reader. But blogging isn’t just for the reading community, it’s also a process for the person blogging to feel that their ideas and their words are valuable. Maybe it’s just an exercise in ego, but a lot of egos can do with some exercise, and building up a little muscle about what you believe in is a pretty damn worthwhile effort. Especially around food.

So to all those of you who blogged for the first time (or blogged when you didn’t want to, but did anyway ‘cause I made you), I salute you and thank you. I’m proud to have met you this Terra Madre and look forward to seeing more blogposts from you in the future.

David Szanto
UNISG
(hey! check out MY blog: And the Dichot)

Visiones de un peruviano

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Water, Politics, War
Dwight Stanford, Master’s student, UNISG-Colorno
Where oil was one of the world’s primary source of conflict in the previous 20 years, it seems likely the new source will be water and it’s availability to all peoples.  Estimates from the UN predict 1/3 of the world’s population will suffer in the next 20 years from water shortages for both potable water and water for crop growth.
Presenters from five regions spoke of their battles and successes with water usage.

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For export reasons for industrial cheese makers, the regulation for making an rawmilk softcheese are very strong and makes it impossible to start with this kind of cheese

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Notre convivium a eie cree en Mai 2006 : nqus sommes une communaute de peche artisaale au Senegal regroupant des pecheurs des transformatrices et des mareyeuses :
Nqtre objectif :
_ Valoriser les produits de la peche artisanale
_Proteger les ressourses halieutiques pour une peche durable
-Echanger avec d’auitres communautes de nourriture et d autres conviviums dans le monde entier pour partager nos experiences

The Amazon Programme: Red Seed
--Interchange-education
--Seminary: Shared Sustainance
--Diffusion: Art and Native Medicines, the Culture of Cacao
--Construction: Home- School in the Countryside for children in Juruå in the Amazon
--Conservation: Protection of indigenous art

This project is based on cooperation Center-Peripheric, where our experience is moved to the state of Amazonas, supplying and facilitating the support received with the Asociaçao dos Moradores da Vila de Céu de Mapiå (AMVCM) and Juruå. Through this project we hope to establish a flux of interchange with the populations of Mapiå and Juruå (Brasil). Each one that comes from there will receive formation in a specific workshop so as to be able to manage in his land with the knowledge acquired.

On the other hand, professionales fromhere will go to Mapiå and Juruå to offer formation, either in the composition of workshops or in other subjects of common interest.

It was in 1980 when we arrived to the small village of Cellers, an almost abandoned site ina valley of the county of Lerida, and here in this dry land of oak and olive, of silence and quiet, our compromise was slowly forged within an action of improving, ourselves as well as our receiving-giving qualities, offering in this way our drop of water in the process that the earth is actually crossing.

We are like a small labortory that finds it,s definition at each step taken, in our community ife, work social protection, etc… This is how we meet and orient ourselves each day:
--researching/working to stabilize a “solidary capital” that would help the development of our project of cultural exchange.
--receiving students and people that perceive the need of a deep change in our daily deeds and doings.
--being a facilitating bridge of an “exchange” of art and knowledge between populations

We started with a house and a few workshops that have received hundreds of people and pretend to follow, affirming the research with better means that favour self’valuation and respect between parts.

Many people have passed through the Cacao Workshop, leaving thier donation and receiving from the cacao its medicine, that force of the insight, generous and prosperous.

With the objective to waken to a conscious compromise and with the eagerness to recover the vision of work bound with the earth, we have worked with various native medicines, integrating and combining to maintain our objectives clear and coherent with our social project, the revaluation of the new rural world and the adaptation of its people actually, as apprentices of ancestral knowledge of a life in balance with the environment and co-educators of its citizens. The capability to protect and share our work and action in this society so as to reach a world brotherhood, recover the trust and the will in front of the big challenges for a dignified survival inside the new paradigm, with respect for Moter Earth as our host. And in this way help create a more stable, spiritual, and sustainable social change.

The Association “Terra Per La Terra” (Earth for the Eart) hopes to help our living together her and learn from the native populations abroad, from their medicine, their customs.