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SLOW FOOD FOUNDER CARLO PETRINI AND TOP CHEF JAMIE OLIVER ENDORSE THE BARILLA FOUNDATION'S MILAN PROTOCOL
- Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, and Jamie Oliver, one of the world's most popular chefs, today gave their endorsement to the Milan Protocol ( www.protocollodimilano.it / www.milanprotocol.com ), promoted by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation at Slow Food's international food festival "Salone del Gusto." The Protocol aims to raise awareness about the urgency of taking action to tackle the challenges involved in making the global food system truly sustainable. Specifically, it calls for a 50% reduction by 2020 of the huge amount of food wasted in the world, the promotion of a more sustainable agricultural system, and the war on hunger and obesity through healthy lifestyles.
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Jamie Oliver is a chef and food activist who has transformed the lifestyles of people all over the world and their approach to food, placing the emphasis on quality, sustainability and saving money for families.
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Since 2002, the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation has been on a mission to shape the health and wellbeing of current and future generations by providing better access to food education for everyone. We believe that to tackle the major food issues outlined in the Milan Protocol, people need to understand why we need a food revolution in the first place. By promoting the protocol and championing the importance of food education, we aim to engage, educate and inspire everyone to think more and demand more. The key to this is collaboration - good, positive, sustainable change can only happen if we work together.
The Milan Protocol intends to be the policy document of the Universal Exposition (Expo) in 2015, which will be held in Milan from May to October of next year.
How will we feed the planet? This is an issue that must involve industry, politics, associations, producers and universities and which will be discussed today by some of the leading supporters of the protocol and Italian experts at Slow Food's "Salone del Gusto" food festival: , President of Coldiretti, the Italian farmers' association; , BCFN Foundation Advisory Board member and drafter of the Milan Protocol; , Action Aid Italia General Manager; and , Oxfam Italia General Manager.
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www.milanprotocol.com
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The Milan Protocol is an initiative of the BCFN - Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition - Foundation, a think tank with a multidisciplinary approach to the world of food and nutrition which establishes links between these and other related issues, including economics, medicine, nutrition, sociology and the environment. New BCFN Foundation Board members are Slow Food President Carlo Petrini, S&D Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament Paolo De Castro, and Bocconi Vice Rector for Development Alberto Grando. The body which oversees the work of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition is the , the members of which include: , Senior Director of the , , a sustainable nutrition expert, , an endocrinologist, and , a scientist at the University of Miami, who were joined in 2013 by , the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Director of the Climate Impacts Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change, and , an expert in sustainable agriculture and co-founder of FoodTank: the Food Think Tank .
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