WUNRN
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.