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Monday, 06 November 2006

A Poet Shares Her Work

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I am a cultivator,
    I have no cast or creed
I always produce food
    Out of healthy seed.
I wish to produce food
    With the natural breed,
and discard artificials
    So that the nature will lead.
Our father is the sky,
    Our mother is the earth,
We, as the members of the Global family,
have to love each other and enjoy the mirth.

Basudeiba Kutumbakam! We are from one origin!

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Monday, 06 November 2006

Pour moi Slow Food est…

Moi c’est Yapi Manho Mathieu. Je viens d’Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

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Je suis agronome et je travaille comme formateur des agriculteurs du Ong GDS - Grain de Seneva (plus de 200 personnes).
Les agriculteurs s’occupent de la production de papaye Solo n.8, Sunset et Sunrise pour l’exportation et Red Panama pour l’extraction de papaïne, substance voisine de la pepsine.
Comme formateur je vais dans les villages à la rencontre des agriculteurs pour leur enseigner la pratique agricole et l’importance de la biodiversité sur place.

Pour moi Slow Food est un rêve, une philosophie de la construction de producteurs nouveaux, avec de nouvelle mentalité. L’Afrique noire regorge toutes les diversités biologiques et doit consommer cette biodiversité et en propager dans le monde entier.
Dans ces jours-là j’ai été frappé par l’idée avancée par Madame Traorè du Mali au meeting des Africains. Elle a invité les Africains à prendre conscience de ce qu’ils disposent en terre africaine.
Dans le futur je crois que la communauté africaine doit s’autosuffir, se nourrir, et diffuser l’information et le rêve de Slow Food. L’Afrique doit apprendere à produire africain pour jouir des fruits de ses labeurs. Il faut consommer africain.

Nous remercions la président de Slow Food, que Dieu le garde en vie longtemps.
A l’édition prochaine.

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Wednesday, 01 November 2006

To the attendees of the Women in Agriculture Workshop on Sunday 29th October

You are owed an apology. This is mine. I am a University of Gastronomic Sciences Masters student and had volunteered to cover this workshop and provide a summary for the Terra Madre website. Due to the lack of translation facilities I was unable to gain anything that could be described as a suitable overview. Due to the technical drop outs I could not hear everything and due to speakers being added at every turn, everyone was reduced to three minutes presentation time. The fact that the room was at ‘standing-room only’ level shows just how much the issues this workshop was to cover matter.

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Wednesday, 01 November 2006

Opening Ceremony: Carlo Petrini

(Sorry for the out-of-chronological order of this post, but with the return of many delegates to their homes, we’re likely to turn up all kinds of content to post post-event.)

The Alavesa delegation (Spain) has posted a bunch of footage from the event. Here’s one of the members of their food community:

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Wednesday, 01 November 2006

thank you

unforgetable and so hopeful to meet all of you!  Gunther Naynar, Austria

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