The United Nations for the “Mediterranean Way of Life”
Reason and Feeling: the Mediterranean Diet at the United Nations In “Letters to Contemporaries”, Hermann Hesse writes that “those who do not adapt to the world are always close to finding themselves. Those who adapt to the world never find themselves, but may become national councillors.” Sitting at the table in a United Nations meeting […]
Italian Cuisine: A Journey Through Identity, Memory, Conviviality, Innovation and Sustainability
Eating is a political act and an “act of love”: notes from the Italian Cuisine Week promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The seventh edition of “Italian Cuisine Week” has just come to an end. Launched by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the wake of Expo Milano 2015, the initiative was created […]
Integral Ecological Regeneration: The Mediterranean Diet as a Model of Sustainable Development
What are the essential ingredients for explaining integral ecological regeneration to 140 high school students? Choose the right location, one capable of conveying knowledge and understanding directly. In this sense, Cilento represents an extraordinary open-air classroom where students can experience firsthand what regeneration truly means. Choose the right storytellers: authentic and credible people who can […]
Live to Tell the Story, or Tell It Only If You Have Truly Lived It?
Stories of Other Lives and Foodtech. In these turbulent days, while the mass return from summer holidays seems to provide the only one-dimensional backdrop to current political propaganda, the third edition of the learning experience organized by FAO and the Future Food Institute has just concluded in Pollica (SA), focusing on Integral Ecological Regeneration and […]
RegenerAction 2022: Agri-Culture as a Driver of Integral Ecological Development
The challenge: preventing cultural desertification Culture, understood as the set of values, symbols, concepts, beliefs, ideas, customs and traditions that are passed down, acquired and widely shared by a given people, is the foundation upon which the individual and collective identity of a society is shaped. And yet, in the recent race toward progress and […]
RegenerAction 2022: The European Year of Youth
School dropout, unemployment and stagnation: the challenges facing young people School dropout and unemployment are among the greatest challenges that Europe, and Italy in particular, must address when it comes to younger generations. In 2020, according to ISTAT, 543,000 young people in Italy aged between 18 and 24 left education after completing lower secondary school. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Historical Connections and Cultural Influences
The Mediterranean Sea has uniquely shaped historical connections and cultural influences since ancient times. This melting pot of diversity made the Mediterranean an important hub for the exchange of products, culinary knowledge and cultural influences which, once brought together and enriched by one another, formed this unique cultural heritage. Even today, the importance of the […]
Agri-Culture Youth Welfare
How can we activate entrepreneurship within a context where school dropout and unemployment rates are among the highest in our country? This was the challenge at the heart of “Agri-Culture – Youth Welfare,” a project launched in June 2021, working side by side with young people from Pollica, in the heart of the Mediterranean Basin. […]
