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In Loco - here in this place
10. Diet Route Stand on revolution day’s festivity in Lisbon
11. Tavira Mediterranean Diet Fair
and I stroll on at Tavira fair. “What most appropriate menu for everyone ensuring healthy and affordable food
would mean ‘O Prato Certo’ - the right according to local and seasonal for all. ‘O prato certo’ is our new food
dish - for you?” Artur asks. “Fish, salad, products, a healthy diet for everyone’s education programme for 2019. It is a
vinho verde?” I guess. “Not bad,” he economic situation. We want our food new attempt to link food with social
nods, “but that is a typical tourist to be part of our rural development security. But ‘the right dish’ is of course
view. What we mean with our new work including sustainable farming, also something we offer our tourists to
campaign ‘O prato certo’ is finding the preservation of food heritage, but also get closer to our rural reality.”
The fair about
fairness here for quite a while. People feel
One hundred and nineteen
producers have gathered here in
connected with the Mediterranean
lifestyle, although Portugal’s coast is
mainly the Atlantic Ocean.
“We should fight again
for ‘the right local
development policy’.”
“Maybe today, as the EU prepares
Tavira from thirty-nine Portuguese for a new reform of the Common of our rural regions remains. Those
provinces, from Algarve, but also from Agricultural Policy towards 2030, we were really dark times when we felt
Alentejo and Vale do Tejo and even should fight again for ‘the right local the consequences of liberalisation
from other parts of the Mediterranean development policy’”, reasons Artur. and globalisation of trade and how
region. So IN LOCO is a magnetic field “The new CAP reform proposal of vulnerable we are as a small country,”
for ‘the right dish’ for everyone. The the Commission suggests to reduce Artur reflects, “I believe these hard
fair is also about fairness, mutual trust support for rural development. times are not over. We see how quickly
and exchange of good ideas. What
That would be again an immense
things can change when governments
the Slow Food movement promotes challenge for IN LOCO”, Artur believes. change or when big companies
in Italy, the Mediterranean local food “Portugal may now be out of the worst move their capital and investments
choice, In Loco has established part of the financial crisis, but the crisis elsewhere.”
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