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About climate change and what’s next
The different areas of the world have always had changing weather conditions, leading to migrations and pushing human communities to adapt. We are still experiencing significant changes with global warming. Average temperatures have risen. CO2 emissions have increased. Everybody acknowledges such undisputed data.Hence, what is the debate about? […]
Customer or consumer?
Customers nowadays want to be part of the project behind the production process leading to the creation of products and provision of services. They are no longer spectators in the marketing theatre
The direction to follow
In the novel Le città invisibili (Invisible cities) by Italian author Italo Calvino there is a passage providing what is in my opinion, an excellent portrayal of the concept of enterprise innovativeness. “Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. ‘But which is the stone that supports the […]
What is really at stake
The conference on climate change that took place in Paris from November 30th to December 12th, 2015, ended with the French Minister for Foreign Affairs presiding over the meeting striking the gavel against the sound block and claiming that “a small mallet that can do great things”. The […]
Agriculture and the environment
The interaction between agriculture and environment is particularly complex when coping with the maintenance of genetic biodiversity. The collection, defense and sustainable use of phytogenetic resources are essential factors to face climate changes and food insecurity. Agricultural biodiversity encourages crop and, consequently, diet diversification
The various meaning of the word territory
The word territory derives from terrae torus, literally ‘bed made of land’, and it originally indicated the land that ancient peoples took possession and delimited. The Romans were the first to apply a legal framework to a community of people taking possession of areas of land with regere fines or “drawing the borders”. Throughout the ages technical and experimental knowlwdge was passed down the generations and slowly agriculture was born
Please let the farmers live in peace!
Carlo Petrini (Slow Food) and Oscar Farinetti (Eataly) speak about farmers as if they were a world apart, needing protection. But their real intention is to align them in their “troops”. They were the last “coldirettiani” in the world (note of Olio Officina Globe for the reader: Coldiretti […]
A non-ideological vision of the economy
On May 1, we celebrate International Workers’ day. For many of the younger generation however, this holiday has no real meaning. It is a day celebrating work, but many people have either lost their job or have yet to find it. To have never worked, or to be […]
Blessed be the olive tree at Christmas time
An ancient Italian legend that originated in Abruzzo, among the peasants, recounts an episode of the flight into Egypt of the Sacred Family. According to the story, in an attempt to escape from Herod’s soldiers, Mary climbed up an olive tree, so as to hide among its branches. […]
A world ablaze
My young niece Miriam did an excellent job. She has just graduated in Literary, Linguistic and Historical-Philosophical Studies, discussing a thesis on History of Philosophy, and earning top marks. Her thesis was on “The inextricable labyrinth of free will. The debate between Luther and Erasmus”. Fascinated by the […]