RegenerAction 2022: Tourism as a Driver for Restarting Italy Through Beauty and Care
The challenge: returning to accessible, sustainable and regenerative tourism As the country with the highest number of sites included on the World Heritage List, Italy, with its immense cultural, historical, landscape and natural wealth, has long relied on tourism as one of the undisputed pillars of its national system. A sector that contributes almost 7% […]
RegenerAction 2022: One Health — Caring for Others and Ourselves So We Do Not Forget
The challenge: embracing collective wellbeing Regardless of what we believe in, which culture we embrace, or where in the world we live, we all share one life, and each of us is driven by common values and desires: to be happy, to be healthy, and to have access to sufficient high-quality natural resources. And yet, […]
RegenerAction 2022: The Value of Local Supply Chains, True Guardians of Territory and Biodiversity
Giving voice and value to agrifood supply chains — those capable of regenerating the land and its diversity, producing healthy and nutritious food, and remaining rooted in the uniqueness and care of their territories — is one of the greatest challenges facing today’s agrifood system, which is still largely characterised by highly extractive, intensive, extensive […]
RegenerAction 2022: When Digital Technology Serves Citizens’ Needs
Faced with the challenges triggered by the pandemic and the current food, health and environmental crises, ensuring a fair, equitable, inclusive and ethical digital transition is an undisputed priority. ❗ The pandemic has highlighted the many challenges the world still needs to address: making the relationship between humanity and the Earth more balanced and efficient, […]
POLLICALANDIA – The H.E.ART of Fun
A “junior” design challenge for the creation of the village play centre, organised by the Future Food Institute and the Municipality of Pollica in collaboration with the Pro Loco, at the Paideia Campus Living Lab. During the weekend of April 23 and 24 — immediately after Earth Day — Pollica hosted a Design Challenge dedicated […]
Pollica Digital Week
From March 25 to 31, the Municipality of Pollica and the Future Food Institute, as part of the “Pollica 2050” project, organised the Pollica Digital Week at the Castello dei Principi Capano, dedicated to education and digital innovation as tools for the cultural, social and economic regeneration of the territory. Seven days of courses, seminars […]
Care That Drives Development. 2022 Between Beauty and Regeneration
In Italy, we began 2021 with a great responsibility on our shoulders: ensuring that our country could make a difference throughout the year’s major political and institutional events, including the G20, the Pre-Food Systems Summit, COP26, and Italy’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai. It was a year in which even the financial world realised that […]
Regener-Action: When Agriculture Regenerates the Land and the Community
Is there a way to produce healthy, nutritious food at a fair price, capable of adapting to and even mitigating climate change? Can agriculture and the agrifood system, currently responsible for 24% of greenhouse gas emissions, capture climate-altering gases and restore carbon stocks in the soil? Two crucial questions for addressing and solving the challenges […]
Municipality Of Pollica, On Behalf Of Italy, To Lead The UNESCO Network Of Mediterranean Diet Emblematic Communities In 2022
Crucial opportunity for Italy to strengthen its leadership within the Mediterranean and to build relationships between the communities representing the Mediterranean Diet and the rest of the world. The program includes promotional events organized with the Future Food Institute at the Italian Pavilion in Brussels, the Expo 2020 Dubai Italian Pavilion, and at the Paideia […]
The first Climate Farming Congress – Towards a Common Definition of Regenerative Agriculture
A sheet of A2-sized paper, 51 signatures, and a castle in the German countryside. Regeneration is the word that links these three ingredients. “Regeneration means bringing the earth back to life.” Paul Hawken This is one of the opening quotes of the Manifesto of Regenerative Agriculture, the outcome of the three-day Climate Farming Congress, that […]
