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The first CLIMAVORE Assembly explores new tactics for ecologically-driven action and reimagines the role cultural institutions, communities and farmers have as agents of transformation in food and agriculture systems within the climate crisis. Taking place at the Museum of Civilisations in Rome, Italy, the event convenes dozens of grassroots organisations from Italy and the wider Mediterranean with initiatives in other parts of the world to address the role culture can play in a transition towards food justice rooted in ecologically-driven infrastructures.

Through a range of presentations, meals, debates and workshops the international gathering explores cultural and artistic tactics for ecologically-driven action and policy making. The research for the Assembly was produced by CLIMAVORE x Jameel, a joint research initiative reimagining foodways by Community Jameel and Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections in partnership with the Royal College of Art (RCA). The research serves to spark thought about how food can be a lens through which to address the challenges posed by the climate crisis, as well as the cultural shifts and actions required to support agrobiodiversity, soil health, public bodies, alternative market ethics and living seed collections.

The Assembly builds on two fellowships from the Visible Project, which enabled CLIMAVORE to lay the foundation for a long-term project in Italy. It brings together farmers, artists, chefs, growers, cooperatives, hospitality businesses, researchers, cultural thinkers, environmentalists, civic leaders, seed keepers and policy-makers to reimagine the role museums and cultural institutions have as agents of transformation in food and agriculture systems within the climate crisis.