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Food, health and society: the town meets the countryside
No full textIt is not long time that food culture has undertaken a process of renewal started when severe food safety problems did reveal through the “food scandals”: the so called mad cow disease (BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) or the swine flu and bird flu, and other various contaminations occurred in the late 20th century. The first development in food culture, so long, was due to safety needs but was the beginning of a new consciousness about the importance of food and diet on human health.
Quickly, the demand for quality food oriented itself towards qualitative – local, traditional, organic – food features. This was a great challenge and a new opportunity for agriculture: to supply valuable goods and new services, to a wide range of consumers, searching for local, ecological, ethical, healthy requisites, from food and country.
In the meanwhile a new sensibility has grown referring to urban life quality, due to overcrowded cities that hardly supply the needed services and suffer for the loosening of the contact with the environment as well as with the countryside.
In this context, food has become, in a wide sense, the mean by which the territory is supplied inside the town: a food that must be evocative of nature and history, healthy and correlated with the share of social values
Un approccio mediterraneo: il “ritorno alla campagna” e il ruolo del turismo per le aree interne
No full textLa crisi finanziaria globale coinvolge e sconvolge le economie reali e quindi anche i sistemi valoriali alla base delle strumentazioni di governo delle trasformazioni urbane e territoriali stressando le sperimentazioni di governance dei modelli di sviluppo place based a seconda delle tipologie territoriali e dei loro livelli di declino. Il turismo sostenibile sembra inserirsi in modo utile nelle strategie di resilienza dei territori. Nella prima parte si sottolinea il rapporto tra pianificazione territoriale e agricoltura che torna ad essere centrale. Le ICT spingono la condizione sociale a mutare verso quella di cittadini del mondo che vivono lo spazio ed il tempo immergendosi dentro una vita in costante movimento. Il turismo sembra scomparire al crescere della possibilità di scoprire e intrattenere nel tempo nuove relazioni umane che collaborano a minimizzare gli impatti del turismo sia sul patrimonio costruito che su quello rurale. Nella seconda parte è messa in luce la potenzialità ed il ruolo che l’agricoltura e la produzione alimentare di qualità gioca nelle politiche di sviluppo locale. Nella terza parte è illustrato un caso di studio della Sicilia centrale in cui è necessario e possibile tracciare strategie di recupero del patrimonio culturale, colturale e di alimentazione su livelli di eccellenza, grazie a politiche e pratiche trans-settoriali integrate. Nelle conclusioni si sottolinea la convenienza dell’approccio di turismo relazionale integrato. La visione rur-urbana che ne deriva ha l’ambizione di divenire un quadro di riferimento per nuovi scenari di riorganizzazione degli equilibri fra area urbana e area rurale
Agricoltura, alimentazione e paesaggio nei territori produttivi. Intrecci disciplinari tra piano e programmi di sviluppo nei casi della Sicilia centrale.
No full textLa riflessione che di seguito si sviluppa vuole condurre verso una più estesa considerazione delle implicazioni sociali dell’attività agricola. Il dibattito nel campo economico agrario, infatti, si concentra sui contenuti che l’attività agricola trasmette attraverso la modellazione del paesaggio, la conservazione della storia, la tutela dell’ambiente e della salute. La notorietà della Dieta mediterranea e il suo riconoscimento globale sembrano riassumere in larga parte queste proposizioni
Ecosystem services for farms: a methodological evaluation proposal of the pollination ecosystem service
Full text linkItalian Consumers’ Preferences for Pasta and Consumption Trends: Tradition or Innovation?
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to know Italian consumers’ preferences for Pasta and consumption habits. Food culture and concerns about food security and product innovation were investigated. A sample of Italian consumers was interviewed. Consumer’ profile, motivations and purchasing behavior were described. Relationships between observed variables and the latent constructs that explain the preferences were highlighted. There is asymmetric information between consumers and producers. Consumers believe Pasta is made with Italian grains, and therefore it is healthy and safe, although that’s not always the case. Intrinsic and extrinsic high quality, which derives from growing and production technologies, is required
Study on consumer preferences for quality attributes of fig fruit after storage at room temperature
No full textFig (Ficus carica L.) is a nutritious fruit, rich in fiber, potassium, calcium, and iron. It is an important source of vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants and phenolic compounds that contribute to a healthy diet. In addition to Asian countries, fig is cultivated in the Mediterranean basin, where quality fruit has been produced since ancient times. Sicily in southern Italy traditionally cultivated ‘San Giovanni’ figs, but fig consumption has decreased. This cultivar is very interesting for its intrinsic qualities and its appreciation after storage by consumers could help its commercialization. The objective of this study is to know consumer preferences for quality attributes of ‘San Giovanni’ fig fruit after three and seven days of storage at 5°C. An in-store study was conducted on 200 consumers at supermarkets to assess fruit acceptance with a large-scale survey. Two expert focus groups also evaluated the fruit. The Spearman’s correlations between in-store evaluations and focus groups were analyzed. Sensory attributes of fig fruit were the first drivers for liking and consumption. The nutritional aspects are still rarely communicated to consumers and the short shelf-life is a primary reason for modest commercialization, during summer. Moreover, statistical correlations highlighted the effectiveness of storing this cultivar at 5°C to maintain good flavor, appearance, and chemical and physical parameters after seven days of storage
The Brand–Land Identity of Etna Volcano Valley Wines: A Policy Delphi Study
Full text linkThis is the first study on the brand–land link for quality wines with a strong identity produced in extreme territories using the Policy Delphi methodology. The objective of this study is to assess the existence of a relationship between the wine brand and the territory of origin for wines produced in the Etna valley in Sicily (southern Italy). Awareness among producers and stakeholders of the recognizability of local wines by the market was investigated. Moreover, the forecasts/reliability, issues/importance, options/feasibility, and goals/desirability of development factors for wines with a brand–land link in the Etna valley were analyzed. The results were used to design a model of the value chain for wines with a brand–land identity which is generalizable to other wine regions. In this study, the policy Delphi method was adapted, consolidated, and improved for marketing studies in the agri-food sector. This adapted method can be replicated in other studies focusing on similar contexts. The findings provide insights into the characteristics (type and category) of development factors that add value to Etna Rosso DOC wine and provide interesting food for thought for wine-producing companies in other wine-growing areas with unique pedoclimatic characteristics that determine a strong brand–land link between wine and its territory or origin. Practical implications encompass new elements for winemakers, as well as for local decision-makers and stakeholders, for the formulation of more effective communication strategies and territorial revitalization strategies to enhance the competitiveness and appreciation of wines with strong geographical identity traits. To highlight these elements, a new theoretical model was designed that includes the experience of the territory and the product in the value chain of iconic wines
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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