Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2020: a global six-month edition, with digital, physical, and widespread events all over the world.
The claim of the edition Salone del Gusto 2020 è Our Food, Our Planet, Our Future. Food, planet, future: a chain of relationships that tell us how, depending on how we relate to our food – how we produce it, distribute it, choose it, consume it – this will have significantly different impacts on our planet.
Salone del Gusto 2020
“The entire world is experiencing a triple crisis – says Carlo Petrini – climate, economic and pandemic. A vision of deep change is needed. It will take time, but the seeds can already be seen in the economy expressed by the Terra Madre communities. It is time to recognize and amplify the value of these communities across the globe. The message is strong and clear: in this year so heavily marked by the suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the global economic crisis, and lockdowns around the world, there is a value that not only has not been erased, but in fact has been brought back to the forefront, and many have finally become aware of its importance: the value of being part of a community.”
“Slow Food’s commitment has always been focused on biodiversity conservation, through respect for the environment, the promotion of agroecology, and the transmission of local knowledge,” explains Francesco Sottile, of the Executive Committee of Slow Food Italy. The dramatic events of the last months, such as the increase in deforestation in the Amazon, the fires in Australia, and record temperatures in Siberia, push us to broaden our commitment: thus, what was an objective, the defense of biodiversity, becomes for Slow Food the tool to combat climate change. “We do this through the activities of our community, producers, and farmers, over six months of cultural exchange,” Sottile continues.
A dialogue that, this year, adopts a different approach from previous editions: “We decided to change the lenses through which we read reality, putting aside national borders and instead focusing on ecosystems, that is the relationship between humans and nature, to understand problems that affect everyone, regardless of latitude and continent,” adds Serena Milano, Secretary General of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity Onlus. We will talk about High Lands (meaning mountains and hills), Low Lands (plains), Water Lands (seas, rivers, and lakes) and the relationship between city and countryside: thanks to testimonies from the Slow Food network we will try to tell ideas, proposals, and solutions.
Terra Madre: appointments worldwide
The main gateway to Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2020 is the web platform, accessible at www.terramadresalonedelgusto.
The first events are concentrated in the dates initially scheduled for the event, from October 8 to 12: Conferences, Food Talks, and many other innovative formats conceived by Slow Food to discuss the topics we care about most – nutrition, sustainability, environment, and equity – as well as traditional appointments like the Taste Workshops, which can be attended both remotely (by purchasing tasting kits for home use) and in presence.
Regarding in-person events: beyond the Taste Workshops, the first Appointments at the Table, scheduled in Turin between October 8 and 12, are already online and bookable. In the coming weeks, the World calendar will then be enriched with many other activities organized by the Slow Food network in Italy and around the world: to not miss any, in the coming weeks, it will be sufficient to glance at the large world map on the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto website, which will light up corresponding to the physical locations where activities are organized.
The Market of Italian and international producers doubles: besides the many squares hosting the best of local productions, organized in different corners of the planet, the 2020 edition inaugurates the online version, with a dedicated platform that becomes a true virtual showcase through which to discover exhibitors and contact them, and also with an e-commerce platform, active from October 8 and available for all six months, where to buy their products.
The B2B area is confirmed, the space that Terra Madre dedicates to exhibitors, buyers, and sales agents interested in business agreements and it is organized by the Turin Chamber of Commerce and Unioncamere Piemonte as part of the activities of the Enterprise Europe Network, co-financed by the European Commission to support the competitiveness of small and medium-sized European enterprises.
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto is the most important event dedicated to good, clean, healthy, and fair food and small-scale agriculture worldwide. It is organized by Slow Food, City of Turin e Piedmont Region under the patronage of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea. The event is made possible thanks to the support of the main partners of the event: Pastificio Di Martino, Unicredit, Lavazza, Acqua S.Bernardo, Quality Beer Academy, in addition to Agugiaro&Figna, Astoria, BBBell, Compagnia dei Caraibi. And the InKind partners Bormioli and Liebherr. With the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Association of Banking Foundations of Piedmont. With the contribution of IFAD, EU. In collaboration with SANA.
