Slow Food, the podcast

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements.  

In his story Bashir doesn't want to share negative - Covid 19 inspired - thoughts with us. Instead, he wants to cheer us up with two funny anecdotes that happened to him when he had his first encounters with the “westernized world”.

In 'Voices from the Roots', Indigenous storytellers will take you to Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda and many other countries, to meet their communities, to visit their houses, to listen to their dreams and personal achievements.  

Today we will listen to the story of Njavwa Thresa Bwalya, an indigenous Zambian girl from the Bemba tribe from the Northern part of Zambia. Her strength, determination and faith, led her to escape from a critical family situation in extreme poverty and to being the first graduated woman in her community. Thresa is a food scientist, a SFYN activist and a programme Officer at Zambia Alliance of Women. Thresa’s story is particularly inspiring and listening to it will make you reflect on your current situation and the infinite possibilities you have in front of you. 

Slow Food Youth Network wants to raise attention for the concept of social justice within our movement and in the food system, because we believe that this particular historical moment is pivotal for a shift in the definition of human rights and we as a movement want to be part of this change towards a more just and fair food system and world. 

 

Today we will have the pleasure of listening to Sara Jean Whelan, from SFYN USA in Vermont and part of the SFYN Global steering committee, who interviewed Jim Embry, one of the creators of the SF USA manifesto for equity, inclusion and justice (the EIJ manifesto). Jim describes the milestones in the history of human rights in the USA, his view on developing a manifesto and how the latest events and the current social debate created a momentum for the manifesto to get a stronger position within Slow Food and beyond.

We are in Mexico and investigate different approaches towards food sovereignty of Slow Food activists with different backgrounds in México. In the final episode, Valentina speaks with Claudia Ruiz Sántiz, a young indigenous chef and owner of restaurant Kokonó, young chef Armando Cajero and Isaac Díaz, a craft sausage maker, about food sovereignty from a gastronomy perspective.

We are in Mexico and investigate different approaches towards food sovereignty of Slow Food activists with different backgrounds in México. In episode 2 Valentina talks with SFYN members Larizza Aquino, an artisanal baker, and Vinik Juré, an anthropologist expert in Mezcal, about food sovereignty from an anthropological and political perspective.

We are in Mexico and investigate different approaches towards food sovereignty of Slow Food activists with different backgrounds in México. In episode 1 Valentina talks with Alma Rosa Garcia, coordinator of the Slow Food Presidium of the Chontalpa Cacao, and Santiago Aguilar Zilli, a young agro-ecological farmer in Veracruz, about food sovereignty from a farmers perspective.

Welcome to the podcast of Slow Food Youth Network. We are about to start a journey together, finding our way through the food systems. Enjoy the podcast, subscribe to it, write us a review and share it with your friends!

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Production by Valentina Gritti
Music by Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Design by Giorgia Giudice