Who We Are

In #Mammamiaaa, thousands of dinners are being held across Italy and Europe to celebrate the role of women in creating meals. At each dinner, the different ways in which grandmothers, mothers, fathers, uncles, and children, prepare, cook, and eat, together, are being collected, and shared. More than 3,500 #Mammamiaaa stories have already been shared online here.

These stories are an invitation to the world: Let’s celebrate food as a medium of social connection and solidarity – and let’s find ways to do this more.

Mammamiaaa is not a one-off event. As a legacy of Matera2019, a Social Food Forum has been launched to help this movement grow. This project has three parts:

Social Food Atlas
Social Food Forum
Social Food Green Paper

Social Food Atlas

We’re looking for projects such as food hubs and community kitchens; community supported baking – and brewing; social farming, and care farming; citizen-farmer associations; soil restoration and and seed saver projects; school gardens; community colleges and catering colleges with social programmes; food projects with refugee; urban farmers; edible foresters; bee keepers;
street food projects; fair trade projects.

The location of each project is identified on an interactive map, together with a link back to the project’s website.

If you would like to suggest an entry please send a short email – including a website for the project – to: atlas@mammamiaaa.it

Social Food Forum

Social food projects do not organise themselves. They happen thanks to the work of Social Food Producers. These individuals co-create – with diverse partners – a rich variety of events, festivals and platforms.

Right now, social food producers tend to be low-profile; their work is not well understood by commissioners in government, or business; and they are not well connected to each other.

As a legacy of #Matera2019, Mammamiaaa established a community of practice, which we are calling the Social Food Forum. The Forum will help its members do more of this work, in new places, and with new partners, after Matera2019 is over.

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Social Food Green Paper

At a public event at the end of their visit, on Sunday 10 March 2019, members of the Social Food Forum published a Green Paper (discussion paper) as the basis of their work going forward.

The Green Paper will address four initial questions:
1 What is valuable about the kind of work that social food producers do?
2 Can this value be measured – and if so, how?
3 What are the most important success factors?
4 What can public officials in municipalities or regions most helpfully do?

The Green paper will identify the skills, connections and resources needed to develop social food projects. It will invite local government, food organisations and anchor institutions to discuss. together, how to extend social food projects across Europe and beyond.

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