Todolí Citrus Fundació has participated in the Climavore 2023 assembly held in Rome. A meeting of farmers, cultural organizations, artists, museums, activists, chefs and legislators in search of the rapprochement between Culture and Agriculture.
Climavore was born in 2015 from the hand of the artistic project Cooking Sections, with the main objective of questioning how we humans feed ourselves in a planet threatened by climate change, and how our food has an impact on that threat. Its first actions were aimed at putting farmers in contact with canteens and museum restaurants, to create menus based on local products, produced with sustainable farming techniques and with a lower impact on the environment. This approach has been extended to numerous international projects that recover regenerative agriculture as opposed to the industrial model, in which, through artistic or cultural initiatives, all actors in the food chain are made aware of the need to move away from intensive monoculture models towards other production models that do not harm the planet or ourselves.
As the World Agricultural Heritage Forum asserts, we live on a planet where, although it may be hard to believe, farming, forestry, fishing and small family farming systems that have survived the test of time and “progress” are still the basis of food security and the livelihoods of most of the world’s farmers. This affirmation confirms that, even today, there is still the possibility of shifting to other production models that prioritize biodiversity and connection with the natural environment.
In Todolí Citrus the connection between Agriculture and Culture is part of our essence, and we know that what unites these two worlds is the Culture of Food, so we advocate models that integrate these fundamental aspects of humanity, in order to regenerate production systems based on respect for the natural environment on which they are sustained and for the producers themselves.
