Organic agriculture - Provincia di Modena

ORGANIC AGRICULTURE RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE CONSERVATION AND
BIODIVERSITY
Wednesday, June 18th
Coordinator: prof. Ettore Tibaldi
Location: Camera di Commercio/Chamber of Commerce
Room: Sala Leoneli
Language: English
Simultaneous translation available: Italian
Chairman: prof. Ettore Tibaldi
Enhancing and maintaining biodiversity is one of the key objectives of Organic Agriculture.
Case histories, research and experience are an important tool for understanding guidelines
to design acroecosystems and to develop agroecology. In this session we expose a series of
achievements favoring food security and a better use of agrobiodiversity and local
resources.
Program
Keynote speakers
11.15 Ettore Tibaldi, Andrea Biffi - University of Gastronomic Sciences Italy, The need of farmerfriendly methods in tracking values inside agro-ecological system
11.40 Louise Jackson - University of California, Davis (USA), Agrobiodiversity and Organic
Agriculture
12.00 Miguel Altieri - University of California, Berkeley (USA), The ecological role of biodiversity
in the design of sustainable agroecosystems
12.20 Roberto Burdese – Slow Food Italia, The Slow Food Movement and its role in defending
biodiversity Slow Food Italia
12.40 Debate
13.00
Lunch/Poster session (see posters list below)
Afternoon session I
14.30 Laura Baluda - Coclea/Solco Bergamo, Italy, Searching for the lost polenta: old mais breeds
restoration in the natural park "Parco dei Colli di Bergamo"
14.40 Frederick Kirschenmann - Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, USA, It Starts with
the Soil, and Organic Agriculture Can Help
14.50 Alok Shrestha, Prem Bahadur Thapa, Basanta Rana Bhat and Janak Chepang,
Conservation and utilization of potato yam (Dioscorea bulbifera L.): Livelihood strategy
adopted by tribal communities (Chepang and Bhujel) in Western Nepal
15.10
Castello, L., Carboni, M., Piazza, C., Italy, Farmers to safeguard biodiversity in the
Province of Parma
15.20 Fabbro, Luigi - Amazonia Landscape Mapping and Biodiversity Estimation, Brasil,
Mapping Amazonia Biodiversity : the creation of an in-situ collection of wild relatives of
agricultural germplasm
15.30 Dario Caccamisi - Sassi di Roccamaltina Regional Park, Italy, Sustainable development of
agriculture within the regional park “sassi di roccamalatina
15.40 Debate
16.00 Coffee Break/Poster session
Afternoon session II
16.30 Melvani, Kamal - Neo Synthesis Research Centre, Sri Lanka, Ecological Restoration of
Tsunami affected lands in Sri Lanka – the case of Kalmunai
16.40 María Calzada - Cocina de la Tierra Foundation, Argentina, Traditional native food,
biodiversity and culture
16.50 Dario Sonetti, Elena Magri - Università di Modena e Reggio, Italy, Biodiversity protection
– The twin programme between the Regional Park Sassi di Roccamalatina (Italy) and the
National Park Barra Honda (Costa Rica)
17.00 Debate
17.10 Roberto Ori e Matteo Gualmini - Provincia Modena, Italy, Role of the Rete Natura 2000
network and the protected areas in the County of Modena for biodiversity protection
17.20 Migliorini, P. - Coordinamento Toscano Produttori Biologici (CTPB), Italy, Development
of organic farming in protected areas of Tuscany
17.30 Nikki Rose - Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries, Greece, Eco-Agritourism as a Means to Preserve
Culture and the Environment
17.40 Zimmer, C. e Bühler, R. - Bäuerliche Erzeugergemeinschaft Schwäbisch Hall (BESH),
Germany, Rare breed conservation using an organic breeding method – the example of a
farmers associations approach
17.50 Debate
18.00 Coffee Break/Poster Session
Afternoon session III
18.25 Felipe Iñiguez - MAELA, Latin America, Towards the sovereignty by the biodiversity: Agro
ecological Movement of Latin America and the Caribbean
18.35 Krug, A. e Kärcher, A., German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany Challenges of further support for Organic Farming in EU-Policies
18.45 Debate
Concluding remarks
18.55 Berhan Tewolde, World Future Council, Etiopia
19.15 Pipo Lernoud, Argentina, IFOAM World Board
19.35 Ettore Tibaldi, Italy, University of Gastronomic Sciences
Posters Session
Stefano Zocca - National Association "City of Cherries" Vignola, Wholesale Market (Itlay)
Giovanna Zacchi, Biodiversity and Training in Sustainable Development Province of
Modena (Italy)
Fausto Minelli, Romano Benassi, Stefano Sirotti, Mauro Villani, Mauro Ferri, Survey on
swift bird “apus apus” within the territory of the regional park “Sassi di Roccamalatina”
(1991 - 2007) (Italy)
Valerio Fioravanti, The wolf: problems, opportunities, activities and future’s perspectives’
in Frignano Natural Park (Italy)
Corsinotti Paolo - Modena Ornitological Station et al , Two projects for the environment
and biodiversity
Campioli Enrico, Avallone Rossella, Rustichelli Cecilia, Notarangelo Francesca, Braghiroli
Daniela and Baraldi Mario - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Flaxseed oil
acute and chronic supplementation increases serum and tissue concentrations of omega fatty
acids in rats
Komar Oliver - Rainforest Alliance & SalvaNATURA, America Latina (El Salvador),
Monitoring dispersing forest birds and migratory birds in el salvador’s apaneca biological
corridor
Razionale Vinicio - Consorzio BioGargano, Italy, The Nature production of Gargano
National Park
Cantero, J.J., Piola, M., Cisneros, J.M., Núñez, C., Corbella, C., Corbella, S., Macfarlane,
R., Bannister, G. - Fundación Rachel & Pamela Schiele + Universidad Nacional de Río
Cuarto, Argentina, Restoration in practice at wetland wildlife refuge “Las Dos Hermanas”
Stefano Zocca - Vignola Wholesale Market , The “slow food” “presidium” of traditional
Vignola cherries
L.Ortolani, C.Grandi – AIAB, Organic farming excellences in Italian National Parks
Stefano Pescarmona - University of Gastronomic Science, Organic school gardens for an
environmental, food and gastronomic education: the University of Gastronomic Sciences of
Pollenzo case studies
Ambrogio Lanzi, Francesca Amorosi, Riccardo Fontana, Alessandra Paladini Consultancy Group Fontana-Gianaroli-Lanzi, Italy, EU Habitats and Species of Community
Importance within the existing area of the Parco Regionale dei Sassi di Roccamalatina and
the areas designed for further inclusion in the park boundaries
Komar, Oliver - SalvaNatura, Dep.to Ciencias para la conservacion, San Salvador,
Monitorino dispersine forest birds and migratory birds in El Salvador’s Apaneca natural
corridor