23º SLOW is a bold, strategic confederation of Slow Food convivia and associations in all national communities bisected by latitude 23° south – the Tropic of Capricorn – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Pitcairn Islands, French Polynesia, Cook Islands and New Zealand [through the pair’s autonomous dependency relationship], Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.
The confederation fosters the exchange of ideas and information within and between communities, non-government organisations and governments to enhance awareness of indigenous foods, food diversity, sustainability and culture. It also promotes the wider recognition and development of Slow Food’s tenets of good, clean and fair.
The project will lead to:
- Exchange x degrees – a cholarship fund to provide for the exchange of 20-25 year-old undergraduates or postgraduates in food and nutrition-related fields to study or work in other confederation countries, applying the knowledge and experience gained by the exchange in their own community
- Food with latitude to promote awareness of 23º Slow in the wider world
- Slow wave will provide a food security forum for marine-reliant confederation communities