From dialogue and confrontation comes change. From this conviction Agugiaro & Figna Molini, in collaboration with Slow Food Italy, has devised “A Lot of Change“: a national tour, divided into six stages, hosted in the major cities of Italy to promote, through good practices, a greater attention regarding the wide-ranging issue of sustainability by realizing, from the outset, concrete actions of respect on a social, environmental, cultural and economic level.
The goal was to initiate a dialogue and discussion among white art, pizza and cooking professionals to raise awareness and foster the emergence of a collective spokesperson for a new vision of doing business, of creating work and value for territories, people and places.
In the last meeting to be hosted at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2022, the first data will be collected, through the involvement of the participants of the previous meetings, sharing the first considerations. Not an end point then, but a necessary stop to put together the first guidelines of this path, representing the first shared track for those who have chosen to be part of this project and become its main spokesperson.
A Lot of Change is not a born and closed path, but it wants to become a real movement, inspiring and training for those who in the future will choose to adopt working systems that are more attentive to the well-being of the environment, of their employees with the aim of reinvigorating the quality system in catering. At Terra Madre – Salone del Gusto there will be training and sharing moments to chart a coherent path to the creation of a true Manifesto. The protagonists have, in fact, collaborated in the conception of the first guidelines through their work experiences, analyzing the dynamics and characteristics of the territories of origin, paying attention to the issue of waste, the valorization of products, and the importance of training thus setting up a series of concrete actions of measurement, selection and improvement.
The beating heart of the tour is Agugiaro & Figna Molini‘s orientation to sustainability issues. In the last 10 years, several actions have been put in charge by the company in this ‘perspective; including the supply of energy from only renewable sources to power the milling plants; the use of only FSC-certified paper for flour packaging; the creation and maintenance of 4 certified production chains, for the cultivation of ancient grains and from sustainable agriculture through precision practices, of organic grains aimed at the maintenance of crop varieties. Lastly, the planting of the “Bosco de Molino“: a forest planted on an area of 13 hectares, adjacent to the Collecchio headquarters, which gives home to 18 thousand plants including shrubs, trees and officinal essences and which will absorb up to 220,000 kg per year of CO2, offsetting the total emissions of the company’s plants from its four factories (Curtarolo, Collecchio, Magione and Rivolta d’Adda).
