{"id":14249,"date":"2020-03-06T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?p=14249"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:17:04","slug":"launch-of-the-process-for-the-creation-of-a-roman-castles-and-hills-biodistrict-eco-region-biodistretto-delle-colline-e-dei-castelli-romani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/pt-br\/launch-of-the-process-for-the-creation-of-a-roman-castles-and-hills-biodistrict-eco-region-biodistretto-delle-colline-e-dei-castelli-romani\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the process for the creation of a \u201cRoman Hills” Biodistrict\/Eco-Region (Biodistretto delle Colline e dei Castelli Romani)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To create a “Bio-district of Roman Hills” on the outskirts of Rome, the largest agricultural municipality in Europe. This is the aim of the organizing committee’s coordination group of the \u201cBiodistretto delle Colline e dei Castelli Romani\u201d<\/strong>, who presented the initiative at the Tor Vergata Botanical Garden of the University of Rome on February 14, 2020.\u00a0 Representatives of local governments, producers, consumers and leading national associations including Federbio, Aiab, WWF, ISDE, Biodinamici, Wigwam attended together with international associations including IFOAM, Inner, Navdanya International, and Cerealia, as well as Famiano Crucianelli, President of the Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre.<\/p>\n

A collective and open process that can make the \u201cBiodistretto delle Colline e dei Castelli Romani\u201d a point of reference for the national and international movement (there are already 34 Biodistricts in Italy, and earlier last month a global alliance of Biodistricts was founded<\/a>). The driving force behind the initiative is the coordination committee of food producers and farmers, on behalf of the many producers who are part of the economic and social system of the area, and the extensive network of agricultural producers and consumers, as well as the local administrators.\u00a0 All have given life to the \u201cMercati Contadini di Roma, Castelli Romani e Citt\u00e0 metropolitana\u201d <\/strong>(Farmers’ Markets of Rome, Castelli Romani and Metropolitan City), which over the years\u00a0 have involved thousands of consumers and hundreds of producers, and created a spur for an alternative, sustainable and ecologically compatible development while at the same time promoting the resources of the territory.<\/p>\n

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The next step will be to continue stimulating initiatives for strengthening the Promoting Committee to include all relevant municipal administrations.<\/p>\n

The local and international nature of the initiative was highlighted by Manlio Masucci, of Navdanya International<\/strong>, who mentioned how in 2018 the FAO granted its highest recognition to the Indian Biodistrict of Sikkim<\/a> and how an organic production enterprise in the Castelli area can find convergence with the Food Policy program of the Rome administration. The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food at the United Nations and member of Navdanya’s International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, Hilal Elver, recently recommended to the Italian Government, in view of \u201cthe fragmentation of the food system\u201d characterized by a still “inconsistent” presence of farmers’ markets and organic shops, that the government privilege \u201clocal products, for ensuring that consumers have access to better quality food\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0 This would also support small producers who have to cope on a daily basis with the expanding intensive agriculture and large-scale distribution chains that control the food market. Finally, Navdanya’s support of the Biodistrict initiative is seen as the continuation of an alliance that has been strengthened over the years through many common battles, from the Seed Freedom<\/a> campaign, to the opposition against glyphosate<\/a> and the latest Poison-free Food and Farming<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n

One of the first initiatives of the organizing committee will be awareness building among producers and consumers through the dissemination of the “Food for Health” Manifesto<\/a> : a document in which leading international scholars address issues of food production in relation to the quality of the environment and human health – (Italian version published by Terra Nuova<\/a> – media partner of the initiative<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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