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Slow Food: History and Activity of a Global Food Movement Toward SDG2

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Slow Food is an international nonprofit organization established in Italy in 1986. It aims at the creation of sustainable and resilient food systems. It promotes the rediscovery of local food and traditional cooking as a viable alternative to fast food and mass-produced food and encourages farmers to grow local varieties of plants and animals. Overall, it offers good and practical examples to reach the SDG of zero hunger aiming at local socio-environmental sustainability.

New Trends in Food Consumption and the Rise of Slow Food

Since the blooming of the so-called Green Revolution in the post-World War II period, the main international mantra about agricultural development has been the one about land productivity (Patel 2013). While the attention to the maximization of production is deeply rooted in a social landscape and a foodscape marked by recurrent food scarcity and famine (Campbell and Overton 1991), over the past decades the discourse evolved echoing a neoliberal...

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  1. University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy

    Michele F. Fontefrancesco & Paolo Corvo

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  1. Michele F. Fontefrancesco
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Correspondence to Michele F. Fontefrancesco .

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, The University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of Agricultural Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

    Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari

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Fontefrancesco, M.F., Corvo, P. (2020). Slow Food: History and Activity of a Global Food Movement Toward SDG2. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_46

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