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CSA Veneto, Comunità che supporta l’agricoltura. In cammino verso l’autonomia alimentare.
The agri-food sector has been progressively bent to pure profit, and colonised
by a de facto oligarchic industrial approach, usually invaded by synthetic
chemistry, genetically modified organisms, and work exploitation. The present
contribution addresses the issue of food autonomy and analyses some possible
paths toward the sustainable production of fair, sufficient, and healthy food.
For a possible transformational path in food production and consumption, a
multi-scalar guiding interpretation is proposed, i.e. an approach structured on
multimple levels: awareness, getting together, public policies, and relations
among territorial systems. Within the second level, the potentials are illustrated
of perhaps one of the most advanced, social innovating systems for agricultural
production and food provision through communitarian self-management: the
Community-Supported Agriculture model (CSA). From theory to practice, the
entire approach is discussed starting from an existing project, based in North-
Eastern Italy and known as CSA Veneto. At a local operational level, such project
is framed in a social and solidarity economic district; at a wider dialoguing
level, in an international network. The potentials of the addressed models, as
emerging from the contribution at issue, lie in the increase of the resilience of
the local territories and their societies in a bioregionally focused circular perspective
in the use of biomasses and other resources