Our Core Values
Conviviality
Slow Food Uganda takes pleasure in sharing food prepared with care from healthy plants and animals, fostering a sense of community.
Diversity
Recognizing diversity as a central pillar of social, cultural, economic wellbeing and community livelihoods, Slow Food Uganda places a strong emphasis on celebrating and preserving diversity in all aspects of its work.
Equity and Fairness
Slow Food Uganda is committed to promoting equity and fairness, ensuring that principles of justice are integral to its operations.
Inclusive Community Participation
We value active participation and creativity of our members and stakeholders and encourage inclusivity at all levels.
Education and knowledge sharing
Educating people about agroecological food systems, food and public health, and promoting a positive behavioral change within the food system.
Collaboration and Networking
Slow Food Uganda emphasizes collaboration among the agroecology actors, networks, partners and groups of informed producers and consumers for a resilient and healthy food system.
Together, everyone’s contribution makes it possible to imagine a different world. We are committed to transforming the food system to guarantee GOOD, CLEAN and FAIR food FOR ALL.
In the future that we envision, we are closely linked with the resilient ecosystems around us; everyone respects and promotes diversity of people, cultures, places, foods, and tastes. The food system changes because we change.
Each of us, in our daily activities, already experiences fragments of the world we want: Gardens are platforms for multigenerational learning; communities of producers transform endangered products into economic assets; farmers’ markets bring the urban and rural worlds into contact; awareness campaigns use food to promote important social and environmental issues; gatherings and events bring people of all ages and backgrounds together; kitchens become social spaces of education, reflection and action to rethink our relationship with food. Crucially, we fight hard for joy, justice and policies that defend the multitudes from that minority of people who want to turn happiness and life itself into commodities.
We need to build food systems that are resilient in the face of environmental and social adversities. Given the enormous complexity of global food systems, there is, of course, no single strategy—so we celebrate the great many passions and ideas which individuals and communities enact to make our economies more circular and our world more balanced.
In order to increase our impact and effectiveness we don’t need to limit the scope of our efforts, we just need to act more strategically. Our network’s guiding principle must be to act locally and communicate globally.
We’re more than just a network: we learn day by day to better organize ourselves, creating tangible, reciprocal relationships of trust and respect both among ourselves and in the exchanges with the world around us.