ANNAM’-Good Food Movement’ is a people’s movement initiated by Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action (CISSA), Navdanya, The Environment Collaborative, The Slow Food International and many likeminded organisations, with an effort to popularise the concept of good food, to make the people aware of the linkage between good food and local agro-biodiversity, to work towards conservation of
local agro-biodiversity, to enrich food diversity, and to fight for food security and food sovereignty, in a globalised world where corporates are in a pursuit to monopolize food and agriculture. Annam Good Food Festival is essentially the exhibition showcasing the taste of India. The modern fast life disrupts our habits and slowly invades the privacy of our homes, inviting the fast food culture. GFF is an effort to rediscover the flavours and savours of regional cooking and expel the degrading effects of Fast Food. Akin to the objectives of Slow Food Manifesto, it is an effort to bring back the real culture of developing taste rather than demanding it, an effort to realise the taste of India and its advantages, and to be proud of our great agro-biodiversity that sustain our food diversity and tastes. The call to everyone is to come together with those who produce the food we eat, ensuring that it is better, cleaner and fairer food, creating awareness and forming a group that exerts more influence in policy formulations. First Annam Festival was held at Thiruvananthapuram in 2008 and the second one at Kozhikode in 2010. The current edition of the Festival is scheduled at Kochi, the Queen of the Arabian Sea, during 10-14 December 2015.
