Slow Food: LIFE22 NGO-IT-Slow Food

Programme(s): Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)-undefined

Topic(s): LIFE-2022-NGO-OG-SGA

Type of action: LIFE Operating Grants Framework Partnerships

Project ID: 101111891

Objective: Slow Food envisions a world where all people can eat food that is good for them, good for the people who grow it and good for the planet. The global food system is not fit for the future. Our goal is to mightily contribute to fix the broken food systems by supporting the transition towards diversified agroecological food systems, involving all relevant actors. This will help tackle the most pressing crises of our time - climate change, health crises, social injustice, biodiversity collapse - and achieve the objectives of the Green Deal. The EU policies we address through our strategy are central to the Green Deal (I.e. Farm to Fork Strategy, Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, CAP, Pesticides, GMOs, Bees, Climate change). Our actions to influence these policies lead towards making Europe's food systems fairer and more sustainable and thus contribute to making Europe the first climate-neutral continent. Slow Food's strategy is based on a three-pronged approach that sees grassroots work (WP2), education (WP3) and advocacy (WP4) strictly interconnected and all feeding knowledge, ideas, and experiences to each other. Effective advocacy work targeting decision makers must be combined with grassroots projects and educational activities targeting farmers, fishers, food producers, companies, retailers and citizens for the impact to be effective and long lasting - and vice versa. These activities are inextricably linked and are pursued simultaneously to ensure an effective impact on the EU policies identified and promote a shift towards more sustainable and fair food systems. To increase our impact for a better environment, nature and climate in Europe, a strong organisation is needed. Our organisational development strategy (WP1) aims to strengthen Slow Food's leadership in forward thinking on the sustainability of food systems, expand and diversify our network and alliances to have maximum impact. Through our communication we will ensure the widest outreach possible