“The 'One Health' project for quality and sustainable food production”. The webinar takes place within the Festival for Sustainable Development 2020
Rome, October 5 2020 - In times of climate change, running out of resources and pandemic emergencies, it is clear that, today more than ever, we need to focus on a new culture that allows us to act to protect health and the environment with a unified approach. This will be discussed in the webinar titled “The 'One Health' project for quality and sustainable food production”, to be held Wednesday 7 October 2020 from 14 to 16 pm, within the 2020 Sustainable Development Festival. The event, organized byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, under the patronage of Network of Sustainable Universities, see the collaboration of INAIL, Wisdom University of Rome and Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari.
After the greetings of Raffaele Calabrò, Rector ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Joseph Lucibello, Director General of the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL) will be the turn of interventions of Laura De Gara - UCBM, Monica Gherardi by INAIL, Pierluigi De Felice - GECOAGRI LANDITALY, Alessandra Gentile - SAPIENZA University of Rome, Simona Sanzani by CIHEAM Bari. Moderator Marco Magheri, Secretary General of Public Communications.
“Pollution, exploitation of resources, climate change: the crisis of the ecosystem, largely due to the productive activities of the last few decades, has opened a crisis that affects the entire planet. On the one hand, in the more industrialized countries, not only the average age of people continues to grow, but also disabling metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and tumours. On the other hand, famine, infant mortality and hunger are on the increase in developing countries”. stresses Laura De Gara, Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Sciences and Technologies for Man and the Environment ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, promoter of the initiative.
Italy, like all Western nations, has been tackling food-related problems with greater awareness in recent years. Objective of the webinar is to implement knowledge on the subject of food quality and sustainable development. L'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma has always been attentive to these aspects that represent the challenge for the agri-food companies of tomorrow that require more and more qualified figures, such as food technologists to be employed in the supply chains and managers of Made in Italy. And it is precisely from the need to create these figures that since last academic year Ucbm, at the urging of the companies and consortia of the main products of Italian cuisine, has started a master's degree course in Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management. The aim is to train experts in the processes of production, transformation, distribution and marketing of food.
