Slow Food sows message of good, clean and fair food in Africa

Good, clean, fair food: Pupils of Buiga Sunrise Primary School cultivating their vegetable plot. Many schools are instilling in the next generation the movement’s ideals such as biodiversity, food activism and the preservation of local food traditions. (Inset) Agobe seeds ready for planting. — AFP photos

African communities are preserving and rediscovering native breeds, plants and products.

Powerful herby coffee, sun-dried fish and succulent beef from Ankole cattle are just some of the Ugandan delicacies in a mushrooming movement across Africa to safeguard traditional foods. Slow Food, a global grassroots organisation that promotes "good, clean and fair food", is spreading its reach across Africa after making its first inroads on the continent a decade ago.