ROME (ITALPRESS) – “We need a more balanced food system. We must have the ambition, the responsibility and the courage to design together a new model that concretely declines this concept: producing better, consuming less”. Thus the deputy director general of FAO, Maurizio Martina, opened the proceedings of the 1st Agrifood Forum of Rinnovabili.it, a digital conference dedicated to sustainable agriculture and food. “I think that 2021 is crucial for the great sustainability challenges we face, and Italy is at the center of gravity at the moment. The three aspects of the current crisis, health, economic-social and climatic-environmental, have as their epicenter the estate. of food and agricultural systems and their ability to reorganize themselves according to these challenges “, added Martina. The intervention of the Minister of Agriculture, Stefano Patuanelli, focused on the concrete steps that Italy must take to achieve these objectives. “Italy has often set goals, but without giving companies the tools to achieve them. Today we have them: partly thanks to the new CAP post 2020, partly thanks to the opportunity opened by the response to the pandemic. We have to face a lack of food sovereignty, improve water management which is an issue that cannot be postponed anymore, distribute added value in the supply chain and in a correct way also through supply chain contracts “. The inclusive approach must be extended to the phase of development of a greater productive capacity of agricultural systems. “Today we are asked to produce more and more, preserving natural resources. How can we do it? By providing ecosystem services for the progress of society – pointed out Massimiliano Giansanti, president of Confagricoltura – There will be a debate in the future between synthetic food and natural food. We must protect Made in Italy: in this way, around agriculture we will be able to build a leading sector of the economy “. Ermete Realacci, president of the Symbola Foundation, recalled that “we will win the challenge of ecological transition, if people do not also perceive it as a liberation. The protection of Italian agriculture means territory, community, beauty. We need a defense of our identity, crossed with innovation “. “Biotechnologies represent an enormous potential for development for agriculture, especially today because we have the new genome-editing techniques – observed Massimo Iannetta, Head of the Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division of Enea – Centrale is also the issue of the closure of cycles. at this point we activated a stakeholder platform, IGEST, with the aim of making innovation not only technological but also of governance, towards new development models to create new added value within the supply chains “. The green twist of agriculture also passes from a different relationship with energy. For Giovanni Tula, Enel Green Power’s Sustainability Manager, a win-win condition is possible if a new optimal model of integrated management is identified. “The benefits of agriculture can be both environmental and social. This can be achieved if we develop new skills that do not exist today: for example, we can imagine an agro-solar operator, who is engaged both in the traditional agricultural part but also in part of the ordinary administration interventions on the plant “. (ITALPRESS). ads / com 07-May-21 15:39
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