Leaderless, mutualistic, and organic agricultural co-production as a socially-ecologically sustainable rural-urban practice. A local Italian experience, an international perspective to rethink the territory and the city

In an expanding world demanding more and more resources and causing interconnected crisis, the systemic nature of tragic social and ecological incidents is not (yet) widely acknowledged. The social and ecological limits of the current industry-based economic paradigm let us forerun the onset of possible emergencies to be possibly tackled through preventive design and positive transformation, where the rethinking of the territory, the city, and their supporting environments is necessarily involved. In this perspective, nurturing initiatives to ensure distributed food provision seems a good start in such a transformation, at least as a socio-economic sustainability tool and as a satisfier of basic human needs. We present an example of communal self-management for organic agricultural production, inspired to the model of Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). This project was started in the urban sprawl of massively industrialised North-Eastern Italy by committed individuals and grassroot groups, already active in discourses on ecological sustainability, social equity, social and solidarity economy, transition and post-growth. From individual-to-collective self-determination and bottom-up initiative potentials through food plans and other tools to be participatorily defined with all the actors of a given area, a CSA can represent the trigger of a virtuous paradigmatic shift in more or less institutional policies for the maintenance, regeneration, and strengthening of territory and urban environments

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

Rassegna storica salernitana. N.s. A.15, n.1(1998)

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Postprocedural trans-mitral gradient in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation undergoing mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair

Background: The relationship between high postprocedural mean gradient (ppMG) and clinical events following mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (MV-TEER) in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) is still debated. Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of elevated ppMG after MV-TEER on clinical events in patients with DMR at 1-year follow-up. Methods: The study included 371 patients with DMR treated with MV-TEER enrolled in the “Multi-center Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology (GISE) registry of trans-catheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation” (GIOTTO) registry. Patients were stratified in tertiles according to ppMG. Primary endpoint was a composite of all-cause death and hospitalization due to heart failure at 1-year follow-up. Results: Patients were stratified as follows: 187 with a ppMG ≤ 3 mmHg, 77 with a ppMG > 3/=4 mmHg, and 107 with a ppMG > 4 mmHg. Clinical follow-up was available in all subjects. At multivariate analysis, neither a ppMG > 4 mmHg nor a ppMG ≥ 5 mmHg were independently associated with the outcome. Notably, the risk of elevated residual MR (rMR > 2+) was significantly higher in patients belonging to the highest tertile of ppMG (p = 0.009). The association of ppMG > 4 mmHg and rMR ≥ 2+ was strongly and independently associated with adverse events (hazard ratio: 1.98; 95% confidence interval: [1.10–3.58]). Conclusions: In a real-world cohort of patients suffering DMR and treated with MV-TEER, isolated ppMG was not associated with the outcome at 1-year follow-up. A high proportion of patients showed both elevated ppMG and rMR and their combination appeared to be a strong predictor of adverse events