SLOW FOOD FOUNDER CARLO PETRINI AND TOP CHEF JAMIE OLIVER ENDORSE THE BARILLA FOUNDATION'S MILAN PROTOCOL - Seite 2

Since 2002, the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation has been on a mission to shape the health and wellbeing of current and future generations by providing better access to food education for everyone. We believe that to tackle the major food issues outlined in the Milan Protocol, people need to understand why we need a food revolution in the first place. By promoting the protocol and championing the importance of food education, we aim to engage, educate and inspire everyone to think more and demand more. The key to this is collaboration - good, positive, sustainable change can only happen if we work together.

The Milan Protocol intends to be the policy document of the Universal Exposition (Expo) in 2015, which will be held in Milan from May to October of next year.

How will we feed the planet? This is an issue that must involve industry, politics, associations, producers and universities and which will be discussed today by some of the leading supporters of the protocol and Italian experts at Slow Food's "Salone del Gusto" food festival: Roberto Moncalvo, President of Coldiretti, the Italian farmers' association; Riccardo Valentini, BCFN Foundation Advisory Board member and drafter of the Milan Protocol; Marco De Ponte, Action Aid Italia General Manager; and Roberto Barbieri, Oxfam Italia General Manager.

For more information, please visit:
www.milanprotocol.com
www.barillacfn.com

Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN)

The Milan Protocol is an initiative of the BCFN - Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition - Foundation, a think tank with a multidisciplinary approach to the world of food and nutrition which establishes links between these and other related issues, including economics, medicine, nutrition, sociology and the environment. New BCFN Foundation Board members are Slow Food President Carlo Petrini, S&D Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament Paolo De Castro, and Bocconi Vice Rector for Development Alberto Grando. The body which oversees the work of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition is the Advisory Board, the members of which include: Barbara Buchner, Senior Director of the Climate Policy Initiative Europe, Ellen Gustafson, a sustainable nutrition expert, Gabriele Riccardi, an endocrinologist, and Camillo Ricordi, a scientist at the University of Miami, who were joined in 2013 by Riccardo Valentini, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Director of the Climate Impacts Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change, and Danielle Nierenberg, an expert in sustainable agriculture and co-founder of FoodTank: the Food Think Tank.