Slow Food, for the first time a woman president: it is Barbara Nappini

For the first time in thirty years of history, Slow Food has a female president. It is Barbara Nappini, Florentine: after the linguistic maturity, she worked as an advertising graphic designer, then she chose to move to the countryside, in Valdambra. Founder of the association The Wheat and the Roses, deals with orthotherapy with people with disabilities, urban horticulture and education e training, especially in relation to the themes of sustainability and food production. Her first meeting with Slow Food dates back to nine years ago: she has since become a committed activist of the movement.

Nappini was elected at the Genoa congress, the tenth national of the association. And she came to fill this role “always doing what I thought was right without ever thinking about the opportunities I could have”, she explained to Republic. “I may sound a little idealistic, but that’s what happened. Mine was a spontaneous path ».

Among its objectives, that of far diventare Slow Food «The Food Movement», the movement recognized as a world leader to change the food system. But also that of translating into action the words “equity, social justice, rights of the least, defense of common goods”. He wants to do it «by creating small local food systems, helping rural communities to resist, convincing public administrations to obtain supplies from local producers for collective catering “, he says,” in order to set in motion a mechanism that allows producers to support themselves and at the same time protect landscapes, territories and avoid depopulation. And by ensuring that cities also have a sustainable food supply system ».

The Sicilian Roberta Billitteri, producer and president of the association of producers of the Polizzi Generosa Badda Bean Presidium, is part of the Board of Directors of Slow Food Italy; Giacomo Miola from Campania, president of Metafarm Social Food Lab, the cultural organization that deals with the enhancement of the gastronomic heritage and the local community; the Lombard Raoul Tiraboschi, a civil lawyer engaged in the integration of people with social disadvantage in the production and marketing of organic vegetables and, finally, the Umbrian Federico Varazi, coordinator of a research group of the History of Geosciences Section of the Italian Geological Society and other scientific dissemination projects.