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Event: Terra Madre 2006

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Next month a special event will take place in Turin, Italy. Slow Food's Terra Madre is hands-down one of the world's most important and interesting food-related gatherings. It takes place every other year and brings together 1500 food communities from five continents, including 5000 farmers, breeders, fishermen and traditional food producers, 1000 cooks and 200 universities. They congregate in Turin, Italy to share experiences and discuss the development of a new concept of agriculture and good, clean and fair food.

Terra Madre 2006 will focus on a few different themes:

Networks: specifically, strengthening the network of food communities, cooks and universities and establishing communication channels within this network;

Agro-ecology: agriculture that respects the environment;

Market Access: finding new outlets for small-scale producers, who face crushing competition from industrial producers and distribution, through associations and cooperatives and collaboration with cooks and universities.

The bad news is participants are severely restricted. The good news is that you can keep track of many of the themes, ideas, projects, and people relevant to Terra Madre throughout the event (and hopefully the rest of the year) through the Terra Madre blog.

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Event: Terra Madre 2006

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