The Foundation, in fact, between 2016 and 2019 carried out the “Wild and good” project, with the main objective of develop a free-living wild ungulate meat supply chain, through a specific training activity to ensure its hygienic-sanitary characteristics and enhance the product up to its promotion in the territory. The Project, in which the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo and the State University of Milan participated, was implemented experimentally in the Province of Bergamo and, in consideration of the positive feedback, it was the subject of a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Lombardy Region in October 2019 for the extension of the same to other regional areas. The creation of a traceable game supply chain will allow to obtain positive returns in terms of legality, transparency, food safety, hygiene from the moment of killing to marketing and subsequent consumption.
In particular, URCA, through the new Serrapetrona Processing Center, will develop a game food chain which, as part of an experimental project, managed by hunters for hunters and not only, will be articulated through training activities, improvement of the characteristics sanitation, characterization and enhancement of the product up to its promotion e distribution on the territory (butchers, restaurants, agritourisms, large-scale distribution, etc.). Furthermore, the presentation of a healthy and quality product on the market will represent a social lever to relaunch the local economy, with a view to the recovery of the inland areas and villages of the Apennines. In fact, the village of Serrapetrona is one of the many small Italian municipalities that is affected by the gradual abandonment of lands and maintenance activities.
This exposes these realities to phenomena of hydrogeological instability and degradation of natural and wooded resources, also involving the impoverishment of production potential, due to the lack of attractiveness and, therefore, the difficulty of welcoming new families and businesses and encouraging tourism. These remote territories, therefore, present fragility, not only physical, but also economic and of services on which it is necessary to intervene because the productivity of a country also grows by reducing inequalities.
Fondazione UNA wants to contribute to a reversal of the trend on this issue, to bring people, families and companies back to the Italian villages, helping to build a supply chain that allows the development of employment and the local economy of the Italian villages. The initiative has the patronage of the Marche Region, the Municipality of Serrapetrona, theTerritorial Hunting Area M2 - Val di Chienti and the Comunità Montana dei Monti Azzurri and was created in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Urbino, the University of Camerino and the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Umbria and Marche "Togo Rosati ".
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