Terra Madre Americas

Terra Madre Americas will explore how food is interrelated with most aspects of our lives and environment, with specific focuses on the climate crisis, social justice and education in the food and beverage system through the lens of specific topics.  

SLOW FOOD LEADER GATHERING

Connect with other Slow Food leaders and exchange ideas and strategies for strengthening local connections to activists and food producers. Hear more about how local chapters can deepen their investment in the global Slow Food movement.

SLOW FOOD COFFEE COALITION 

The supply chain proposed by Slow Food and indicated in the Manifesto of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition, represent a model, especially agricultural, that respects biodiversity and nature, with the aim of countering the climate crisis. There is an urgency to act, in being able to produce and choose more and more good, clean and fair coffee.

SLOW WINE COALITION 

Wineries from the United States, Central America and South America who promote agroecological principles in their territories will be in Sacramento participating in events with different target audiences: taste workshops, walk-around tastings and thematic meetings all focused on the Slow Food principles and good, clean and fair wine. 

BIOCULTURAL TERRITORIES OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 

Delegates from across America, spanning all parts of the food system, will explore biocultural territories through different crops – corn, sugar cane, açaí, cocoa, quinoa and salmon – that are controversial in terms of good, clean and fair principles and will show good practices to safeguard and promote them. 

• The Mesoamerica, with corn and milpa crop-growing system
• The Pacific and Caribbean, with ancestral viche production
• The Amazon Rainforest, with açaí agroforestry cultivation
• The Atlantic Rainforest, with agroecology and cocoa production system
• The Andes, with traditional grains terrace systems
• Indigenous fishing methods 

FOOD AND HEALTH EDUCATIONAL AREA 

This space aims to present the relationship between food and health according to Slow Food’s approach, which includes pleasure and sensory education, gives value to traditional gastronomic knowledge and emphasizes food as an expression of different cultures. Through a series of activities involving audiences of all ages, it gives voice to Slow Food network and food system actors.