Presenting two posters at the IV Seminário de Pesquisa do Vale do Ribeira: Fanelli, Luca; Pasinato, Raquel. Sementes tradicionais em comunidades quilombolas do Vale do Ribeira (SP) [Landraces in quilombola villages of…
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Italian University students and quilombos create cooking workshops
Coming from Piemonte (Italy), the students of the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UniSG) created, together with local cooks, two workshops in the Ribeira Valley quilombos of Ivaporunduva (Eldorado, SP, Brazil) and Mandira…
UniSG in Brazil
I’ve just created a new blog, UniSG in Brazil, to follow the visit of a group of the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo in Brazil. The Instituto Slow Food S. Paulo…
Food security centre in a S. Paulo favela
I visited — together with Nino Casciaro, RETE president, and, as a kind guide Chistiane Costa, director of the Food security sector of the Instituto Pólis — the Centro de Referencia de…
Sowing sustainability (Euterpe edulis palm)
Semeando sustentabilidade. A juçara e as comunidades quilombolas no Vale do Ribeira [Sowing sustentability. The juçara and the quilombola villages in the Ribeira Valley] presents, in a simple and pleasant way, some…
First National Meeting of Tourism in Quilombolas Villages
The I Encontro Nacional de Turismo em Comunidades Quilombolas [I National Meeting of Tourism in Quilombolas Villages] is happening in the Ribeira Valley city Registro, 250 km from S. Paulo, within the…
Workshop about Native Bees Breeding
Last weekend I attended in Cuiabá (Mato Grosso, Brazil) the “Technological Exchange Workshop about Native Bee Breeding, between producer communities, researchers and civil society organizations. Production and preservation systems and native bees…
Land management in Angola, Bolivia, Brazil and Mozambique
A concept note was submitted to the European Union, in answer to the call “Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development” (EuropeAid/129492/C/ACT/TPS). The project title is “Sustainable development of regions characterised by…
Partnerships in the Lower Amazon region
From March the 14th to the 24th I spent some time in the Middle-Lower Amazon region, Pará, Brasil. With me, Rodolfo Canciani, of the Italian NGO Fratelli dell’Uomo. The aim of our…
Samba in the Bar do Cidão
In the informal Bar do Cidão we appreciated the samba of Valtinho and of his guests.