The Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species (GFU) was created to ease and increase information and knowledge exchange in the field of underutilized and neglected species.
Terra Madre delegate, 11:32:AM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
Desde el pasado jueves nos encontramos en Turin, para participar en Terra Madre, una representacion de las comunidades del alimento de Alava: doce delegados y tres cocineros.
Alava es un territorio que se encuentra en el Pais Vasco. Las comunidades del alimento alavesas son:
* Sal de Salinas de Anana
* Txakoli de Alava
* Alubia pinta alavesa
* Carne de potro de la Montana Alavesa
* Artzai Gazta (Queso Idiazabal de pastor)
Queremos agradecer a la organizacion de Terra Madre la invitacion a participar en este magnifico evento; tambien queremos agradecer a la ciudad y a las gentes de Turin su acogida y hospitalidad. Si alguien quiere saber mas sobre las comunidades del alimento de Alava, puede visitar la web del Convivium Slow Food Araba-Alava. Y si quieres conocer las andanzas de la representacià on alavesa en Terra Madre y la ciudad de Turin, puedes visitar nuestro blog Hacia Terra Madre 2006.
Un abrazo para todos los participantes en Terra Madre 2006.
Terra Madre delegate, 11:21:AM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
Background
Turkana District of Kenya covers approximately 77,000 square kilometers lying almost entirely within the Gregory of the Great Rift Valley.
It is bordered by Ethiopia in the North East, by Sudan in the North and by Uganda in the West.
The Turkana District is hot and dry, and subject to periods of severe draught. Rainfall is unreliable, and unpredictable in amount, duration and periodicity.
There are no permanent rivers in the district, and only two rivers, the Kerio and the Turkwel, carry any surface flow for more than a few months each year. Most smaller drainages carry water only for a few days during the year when they are subject to flash floods during the rainy season.
Climatic conditions described here fit clearly within the framework of arid land ecosystems as non equilibrium ecosystems. The aridity, frequency of drought and extreme coefficients of variance in the rainfall pattern lead to unstable and unpredictable system dynamics.
In severe frequent droughts population fluctuations prevent plants and herbivores from developing closely coupled interactions, ecosystem development and succession are limited or non existent and ecosystems hardly reach a climatically determined equilibrium point.
Terra Madre delegate, 11:14:AM | 2006 Event | Comment (2)
How wonderful to come from the Piedmont of North Carolina to La Piemonte da Italia!!!
Terra Madre delegate, 09:57:AM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
I am from the U.S.A. and have had the good fortune to spend time in Grenada--gem-like, geographically very small, English-speaking, in the Eastern Caribbean . I believe there is no Grenadian representation at Terra Madre 2006. I’m sure this can change by 2008! Please contact Dessima Williams () the director of GrenED (Grenada Education and Development Organization (http://www.grened.org) or myself (Rita Hindin, ) about making connection with Grenada, especially about the possibility of promoting production of Grenadian cacao, some of the best cacao in the world I am told.
Terra Madre delegate, 16:42:PM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
I need technical knowledge re: Use of Ozone for sanitizing fruits and vegetables. If you have experience, or reliable data about using ozone, please contact me. Please contact James Nisly at . Thank you.
Terra Madre delegate, 16:24:PM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
(adapted from a November 27th Terra Madre 2006 presentation on “the power of co-producers�)
We took a long time getting ourselves into this food mess, and it’s going to take a long time getting out. Transformational change just ain’t gonna happen, no matter how many Terra Madres we put on, so it’s up to incremental change—long, slow, hard slogging—to make things right. Don’t get me wrong, though, without Terra Madre, and the other banner-raising, relationship-making, soul-inspiring events like it, the incremental change wouldn’t have a rallying cry to keep it going forward.
So what does this have to do with farmers’ markets and wikis? Oh, everything, I’d say.
UNISG student, 16:07:PM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
Hi
To all beer lovers out there _ hope you managed to attend the workshop on beers-producers-brewers
If anyone from Europe wants more information on the beer consuming scene please drop me a line. We currently represetn the following countries
Uk, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland. We hope that Germany will wake up and reaslise what they are losing.
Ireland also
Regards
Terry
Terra Madre delegate, 15:47:PM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
dalla terra con le mani ingloba 5 progetti situati nelle Ande boliviane e appoggia e aiuta la formazione di piccoli produttori, dando uno spazio significativo alle donne.
Fulvio - TM06, 15:45:PM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
Grazie a tutti, ho dialogato, incontrato, mangiato, riso e scherzato con cuochi polacchi, produttori di pane slovacchi, indiani, brasiliani.
Richard, un allevatore di bisonti che vive in Canada a tre ore da Calgary, l’altro giorno a pranzo nell’area di “Terra Madre” mi ha detto “you must be proud of italy!”.
Spero che questo sia solo l’inizio di una interminabile serie di collaborazioni con Slow Food.
Grazie a tutti per la bellissima esperienza.
Marco B. (per Eric, sono quello del Tom Tom)
Università Suor Orsola Benincasa - Napoli
http://www.vesuviano.splinder.com
Terra Madre delegate, 15:32:PM | 2006 Event | Comments (0)
