Well, not really an update, but the Terra Madre Newsletter arrived today, and it included this very apt quote from Mariam Ouattara Adiarratou, founder of the first Slow Food convivium in Ivory Coast:
People sometimes eat whatever they can to sate their hunger, without asking where it comes from. They’ve got to understand that they can eat what’s produced locally because it’s good and because this way they can eat better and help farmers to continue working in their fields.