Il contributo della ricerca Progetto Bioregione allo sviluppo di sistemi agroalimentari locali sostenibili

Abstract

In the last few years there is a growing awareness that food - or rather the agri-food cycle - represents a strategic point of view to understand and orient the constituent elements of our development model at the different scales. Despite such primary importance of the agri-food universe, agricultural world is experiencing a period of harsh economic and identity emergency, which requires to rethink some factors to find systemic solutions to reverse the trend of this structural crisis. Along with the many experiences of Local Food Systems (LFS), the Bioregione Research Project has taken on the goal of developing, within the Lombardy territories, approaches and tools to help give shape to local food systems capable to self-sustain in economic terms and to generate positive systemic effects, creating the conditions for a virtuous encounter between the organised demand of quality food and different types of sustainable local production, in order to favour a change in agricultural production and its persistence over time, as a primary condition for the overall improvement of environment and landscape and for the preservation of territorial balances between settlements and open spaces.