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Environment

Farmhouse

Farmhouse

The farm is the place that combines rural tourism and environmental sustainability, where you can experience the Mediterranean Diet. The agritourisms, especially the organic ones, operate in respect of the environment and the conservation of the natural landscape, contribute to the recovery of the rural territory and its traditions and promote a restaurant based on healthy and seasonal foods, typical of the Mediterranean Diet.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variety of living beings that populate the Earth, and is measured at the level of genes, species, populations and ecosystems. This variety not only refers to the shape and structure of living beings, but also includes diversity understood as abundance, distribution and interaction between the different components of the system. Thanks to the different sowing according to the areas and the rotation of the crops, the Mediterranean Diet respects biodiversity and the territory, ensuring a balance between man and nature and ...

Sustainability

Sustainability

According to the definition by FAO, food models that have a low environmental impact, contribute to the security of food, and promote a healthy lifestyle for the current and future generations are sustainable.

A sustainable diet respects biodiversity and ecosystems, is culturally acceptable and accessible, economically sustainable, nutritionally adequate and contributes to optimizing natural and human resources. In other words, a sustainable diet must not have long-term negative effects on health, the environment, society and the economy. These are all characteristics that the Mediterranean Diet possesses, having been repeatedly recognized as one of the most sustainable food models.

mipaaf createsMeddiet - The portal of the Mediterranean Diet "is a project of the University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza, made with cAttribute of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies - Ministerial Decree no. 93824 of 30 December 2014 and updated in 2018 in collaboration with CREA - Research Center for Food and Nutrition.

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