Merle Müller-Hansen

Agriculture and Food Scholar

researching Sustainability, Health, Digitalization, and Justice

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La Via Campesina and Slow Food

Guest Blog Post by Valentina Bendl
“La Via Campesina and Slow Food: Challenging the Status Quo through Food Movements”

In this in-depth guest post, Valentina Bendl explores how global food movements such as La Via Campesina and Slow Food offer alternative models to the dominant corporate food regime. Through the lens of food sovereignty, agrarian citizenship, and cultural sustainability, Bendl examines how these movements reclaim agency over seeds, land, and food traditions—fostering resilient, democratic, and ecologically sound food systems. From grassroots seed campaigns to the celebration of local cuisine, this piece reflects on the transformative power of food as both sustenance and symbol.

“A different world is not only possible, but also, metaphorically speaking, ‘plantable.’”

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Figure on the Slow Food Movement and its central concepts: higher food quality, regional food networks, community cohesion, preserving agricultural products and practices, lower food miles travelled, and nutrition education.

La Via Campesina and Slow Food

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Guest Blog Post by Valentina Bendl “La Via Campesina and Slow Food: Challenging the Status Quo through Food Movements” In this in-depth guest post, Valentina Bendl explores how global food movements such as La Via Campesina and Slow Food offer alternative models to the dominant corporate food regime. Through the…

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Figure on the Slow Food Movement and its central concepts: higher food quality, regional food networks, community cohesion, preserving agricultural products and practices, lower food miles travelled, and nutrition education.

La Via Campesina and Slow Food

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Guest Blog Post by Valentina Bendl “La Via Campesina and Slow Food: Challenging the Status Quo through Food Movements” In this in-depth guest post, Valentina Bendl explores how global food movements such as La Via Campesina and Slow Food offer alternative models to the dominant corporate food regime. Through the…

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