project - Innovative project
Slow Food Presidia
Slow Food Presidia
Objectives
The Presidia sustain quality production at risk of extinction, protect unique regions and ecosystems, recover traditional processing methods, safeguard native breeds and local plant varieties.
Objectives
The Presidia sustain quality production at risk of extinction, protect unique regions and ecosystems, recover traditional processing methods, safeguard native breeds and local plant varieties.
Activities
Main activities of a Presidium
I. Looks for relevant producers, technicians and institutions to define the objectives of the Presidium and to create a work group.
II. Surveys the production area to collect data and information necessary to establish a production protocol: an important tool to grant traceability and high quality of the product.
III. Assists producers in the construction and constitution of a producers association with its own name and brand.
IV. Promotes Presidia products by telling consumers all over the world that these are extraordinary products and that discovering, buying and tasting them means learning history and traditions of a territory and safeguarding its cultural heritage.
Activities
Main activities of a Presidium
I. Looks for relevant producers, technicians and institutions to define the objectives of the Presidium and to create a work group.
II. Surveys the production area to collect data and information necessary to establish a production protocol: an important tool to grant traceability and high quality of the product.
III. Assists producers in the construction and constitution of a producers association with its own name and brand.
IV. Promotes Presidia products by telling consumers all over the world that these are extraordinary products and that discovering, buying and tasting them means learning history and traditions of a territory and safeguarding its cultural heritage.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Other rural development funds
- Agricultural sectors
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- Crops (generic)
- Livestock (generic)
1 Practice Abstracts
Main practical outcomes Safeguard and promotion of European agrobiodiversity, protection of mountain pastures and pastoral farming, the defense of traditional landscapes (for example old orchards, centuries-old terraces and olive groves), selection and propagation of traditional seeds by communities, the protection of raw milk for dairy products, animal welfare, protection of small-scale onshore fishing, transparent labeling, ecologically sustainable packaging and the preservation of traditional artisanal knowledge linked to processing methods.
Main practical outcomes Safeguard and promotion of European agrobiodiversity, protection of mountain pastures and pastoral farming, the defense of traditional landscapes (for example old orchards, centuries-old terraces and olive groves), selection and propagation of traditional seeds by communities, the protection of raw milk for dairy products, animal welfare, protection of small-scale onshore fishing, transparent labeling, ecologically sustainable packaging and the preservation of traditional artisanal knowledge linked to processing methods.