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Women - Food Production in Rural & Mountain Areas

 

Sustainability Enhanced in Times of Recession & Austerity

 

Food Quality, Culture, Traditions, & Economic Benefits

 

POWER POINT - Download  -  By Michela Zucca*

 

Women and food: production of typical food and sustainable development in rural areas


When women more involved in production of quality food, it is an anthropological chacteristic that can lead to new ways of sustainable development and economic growth.

 

When food becomes the symbol of identity and sustainability, it is an occasion of emancipation, valorization, and territorial development.

 

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*Michela Zucca, Italian-European Anthropologist, has done field work in South America, among Amazonas shamans, in Peru and Colombia. She is specialised in popular culture, gender studies, analysis of imaginary. She has worked on sustainable development in rural marginal areas, most of all Alpine and mountains regions, training, cultural identity and evaluation of territory. She is consultant in the field of training, EU projects, sustainable development for administrations, municipalities, regions, public and private bodies, training centres. She founded the International Network of Mountain Women. At the Centre of Alpine Ecology in Trento (Italy), she introduced study and practice of Human Ecology and Identity Economy. She directed the European projects Recite II - Learning Sustainability, Interreg III C South "Network of Sustainable Villages" . The projects involved Trentino (Italy), Lapland (Finland), Alentejo (Portugal), Arad (Romania), and Lomza (Poland). She directed the master course in regional development for the Italian Minister of Environment. Michela Zucca is now working on a research project about mountain school with Italian Ministry of Public Education. She keeps seminars in Anthropology at the Italian Swiss University.