Differences that create solutions Is unbalanced nutrition a social - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

NUCE –Milan, September 25, 2012

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Is unbalanced nutrition a social disability?

Carlo Alberto Rinolfi and Franca Castellini

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Differences that create solutions

An overview of MondoHonline: when differences may provide new proactive solutions

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Differences that create solutions

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• Disability leads to a new vision of life and a

different approach to problems and people’s difficulties

• The unlimited opportunities offered by the Internet

allow to establish connections, to organize proactive –networks and to stimulate relations.

Differences that create solutions

Differences that create solutions

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Three priority areas of social handicap have been identified:

• Nutrition
• Health
• Learning

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SUPPLY CHAINS OPEN AND LINEAR

NATURE

CYCLES OF REPRODUCTION

• CLOSED
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES WASTE POLLUTION NEGATIVE EXTERNAL FACTORS

NUTRI TION

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HANDICAP AND FAMINE

CULTURAL DOMINATION OF NATURE WARS TECHNOLO- GY FINALIZED TO BUSINESS POLLU- TION

GROWING POPULATION

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ECOLOGICAL FOOD IMBALANCE

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Safety ty Quality DIgnity

GOOD FOOD ETICA ECO LOGICA

COOPE- RATION SUSTAINABLE TECHNO- LOGIES RENEWAL OF RESOURCE SUSTAINABLE POPULATION GROWTH INTERACTION WITH NATURE

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environment ronment THE NUTRITIONAL BALANCE

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TO RESET THE SYSTEM IN EQUILIBRIUM

• A new step forward to a cultural development in all areas
• f knowledge.
• The challenge: to switch over from aggression against

nature and environment to interactive and conscious relationship with them, being aware of the consequences

• f human actions.
• To reach this equilibrium, MondoHonline is acting on two

different levels: Cultural: “the manifesto of a conscious nutrition” Operational: “the technological platform of nutrition»

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Nutrizione e rigenerazione delle città metropolitane - “una sfida necessaria”

Museo della storia naturale - Milano – Corso Venezia 55 – Aula Magna 4 maggio 2012

Il manifesto e la piattaforma nutrizionale Direttivo Mondohonline

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THE TOOLS

THE ‘MANIFESTO’ AND THE PLATFO FORM M FOR NUTRITIO TION N mondoHonline

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THE KEY IS «INNOVATION»

• The energy needed for the change is already inside our

mind

• The mental map governing our relationship with nature is

based on visions that can be modified.

• We are committed to stimulate and to spread the change

through the implementation of the : “ manifesto of a conscious nutrition”

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Nutrition, Culture, Dignity Manifesto for a conscious nutrition

1 Recognize Nature’s strength and respect the limits of Nature upon human life

In its own progression In harmony with the paces and ways of evolution Controlling the effects of human influences

• 2. Make cities hospitable and liveable

Stop uncontrollable expansion Ensure alimentary safety Guarantee economical access to food

• 3. Regenerate resources

Lower down the ecologic footprint of metropolitan areas Develop renewable energies Activate production that saves resources

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• 4. Promote and improve rural areas

Promote youth entrepreneurship Foster the distribution chain from nearby farmlands Repopulate uncultivated and badly cultivated lands

• 5. Give value to differences

Acknowledge peculiarities of places of origin Favour the local productive specializations Facilitate the exchange from territories with the rest of the world

• 6. Accept and integrate peoples’ nutritional cultures

Start from the value of traditions Promote nutritional alterations Respect for the needs of autonomy

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• 7. Search for and give recognition to quality

Make consumers and producers Interact Save original flavours Respect seasonal rhythms

• 8. Support basic and applied research

Provide financial support for research Thoroughness in experimentation Seriousness in applying safety measures

• 9. Fight strongly against waste

Use only what is necessary Restrict useless purchases Stop the destruction of farm production

Nutrition, Culture, Dignity Manifesto for a conscious nutrition

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Quality Resources Research

Nature

Cultures Traditions Metropolitan cities Waste Country

Nutrition, Culture, Dignity Manifesto for a conscious nutrition

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AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY

• Milano has the professionalities, the competences, the

technologies needed to develop new services, new behaviours, sustainable productions of new food processes that have positive impact on enterprises and employment.

• We are committed to the creation of a ‘bridge’ to connect, to

spread and to exchange innovation in nutrition among world countries

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THE PLATFORM FOR NUTRITION

Agrofood development Environmental equilibrium Production, processing,distribution, consumption, post-consumption Cities, researchers, operators

information researchers Projects transfer exchange know-how

Food safety Food quality

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The road map to 2015

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MondoHonline: a professional, international network that aims to improve and progressively change Human Being lifestyle by increasing its Wellness and Welfare. Thank you.

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