In a time when water is a primary asset even more than in the past, due to its scarcity and the climatic changes that affect the planet across all areas and seasons, it looks curious that there are lands that can be cultivated without irrigation. It is even more curious if we consider that this area …
Bonanno, an organic farming paradise in Pantelleria Read More »
According to French philosopher Robert Redeker, deprived of the soul, modern man has become a conformist rather than an ordinary man. And conformism is the major risk in our society, with the continuous trivialisation of the act of consumption and before that of production. With standardisation, things and acts lose their soul. More or less …
On 16th December 2022 the Court of Pesaro acquitted all the 23 defendants and the 6 companies involved in the investigation started in 2013 by the Prosecutor’s Office of Marche Region’s County Seat. The prosecution alleged a 32 million Euros fraud for importing and trading “fake organic” foodstuffs. The public prosecutor Silvia Cecchi was focusing her …
Vertical Bio, everybody acquitted. But the Italian Organic sector has been sullied Read More »
The Vertical Bio investigation had also sullied Suolo e Salute, one of the Italian leading Certification Bodies based in Bologna, as it was responsible of certifying most of the companies involved in the alleged fraud. The decision of the Court of Pesaro was to acquit all entrepreneurs and companies involved in the case and this …
Suolo e Salute: The Italian organic reputation has been rebuilt Read More »
The president of the National Organic Federation FederBio, Maria Grazia Mammuccini launched on the day of the European Organic Day, established by the European Commission and celebrated for the first time this year also in Italy, the cooperation with conventional agriculture, which is necessary – she affirmed – in order to achieve goals that are …
Mammuccini: “Today we have to cooperate with conventional agriculture” Read More »
At the beginning of September, the Nomisma Research Institute presented a survey, conducted between July and August 2022, on a sample of 290 Italian organic food and wine companies. It emerged that the main destinations in Europe for Italian organic food are Germany (indicated by 63% of the companies), followed by France (46%) and by …
Italian companies evaluate the importance of destination markets Read More »
It is simple but not clear to all consumers how to recognize an organic food. For this reason, the AIAB (Italian Association of Organic Agriculture), on the occasion of the first European Organic Day on Friday, the 23rd of September, pointed out how to identify an organic product. The label must absolutely contain three references: the …
In the European Union, in terms of agricultural products, more food is wasted than is imported. According to a recent report by the environmental organization Feedback EU, the EU imported almost 138 million tonnes of agricultural products in 2021, while the latest estimates show that it wastes 153.5 million tonnes of food each year. The …
In the second half of 2023, the European Commission will submit a proposal to add the new genome “editing” techniques in the EU legislation. This was announced by the Commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski, during the informal meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers in Prague from 14th to 16th September. At the moment, new genome techniques are equated with GMOs. …
Bio Bank, the Italian organic food database, in its latest update, identifies ten trends that affect organic food consumption more than others and facilitate its growth. Here they are: 1. the growth of the supply of vegetable substitutes for meat, milk and cheese. 2. the interest in ancient, local and forgotten varieties, identified as a …
Bio Bank identifies ten trends impacting organic food consumption Read More »