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Experts including Bottura, Farinetti, Petrini and Bowerman<\/u><\/p>\n
The board – created by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies – will design contents and initiatives<\/em><\/p>\n 2018 \u201cYear of Italian Food\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>gets under way<\/strong>\u00a0with the assignment of the Scientific Committee that will plan contents and initiatives with the contribution of the\u00a0Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies<\/strong>\u00a0and the collaboration of organisations committed to the valorisation of national agri-food and oenological excellences.<\/p>\n The breaking figures of Made in Italy exports lead to an increase of sector support actions: according to Istat (National Institute for Statistics) surveys for 2017, exports are likely to exceed 24 billion Euros \u2013 record figures due (also) to the performance of the PDO and PGI sectors, accounting for over +22% of the whole industry, with a\u00a0+143%\u00a0<\/strong>raise in the last ten years.<\/p>\n On occasion of the\u00a0<\/strong>Year of Italian Food,\u00a0<\/strong>the Qualivita Foundation once more reiterates its commitment for the promotion of food culture and PDO and PGI Italian quality productions First,<\/strong>\u00a0the significant partnership with Treccani for the realization of an editorial project dedicated to quality enogastronomy products and international promotion; then the appointment of managing director Mauro Rosati as a member of the Scientific Committee of 2018 \u201cYear of Italian Food\u201d. Presented in Rome on February 20th<\/span>, the committee will plan and schedule a rich calendar of activities fit to celebrate Italian Food&Wine as an ambassador of territories of origin of remarkable social, environmental, natural and economic value.<\/strong><\/p>\n The thirteen members of the Scientific Committee include<\/strong>\u00a0Mauro Rosati,\u00a0<\/strong>Slow Food founder<\/strong>\u00a0Carlo Petrini<\/strong>, Eataly founder\u00a0Oscar Farinetti<\/strong>, starred chefs\u00a0Massimo Bottura<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Cristina Bowerman<\/strong>, the president of the International Union of Oenologists\u00a0Riccardo Cotarella,\u00a0<\/strong>the DG<\/strong>\u00a0of Ismea (Institute for Services for the Agricultural and Food Market)\u00a0Raffaele Borriello<\/strong>, the President of Seeds&Chips\u00a0Marco Gualtieri, Claudia Sorlini<\/strong>, Vice President of Touring Club Italiano, pizzaiolo\u00a0Enzo Coccia<\/strong>,\u00a0Elisabetta Moro<\/strong>, Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Naples S.O.B,\u00a0Giorgio Calabrese,\u00a0<\/strong>MD, nutritionist and Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Western Piedmont and\u00a0Massimo Montanari<\/strong>, full professor of History of Nutrition and President of the \u201cCasa Artusi\u201d Scientific Committee.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experts including Bottura, Farinetti, Petrini and Bowerman The board – created by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies – will design contents and initiatives 2018 \u201cYear of Italian Food\u201d\u00a0gets under way\u00a0with the assignment of the Scientific Committee that will plan contents and initiatives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[447,409,446,101,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-5089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anno-del-cibo-italiano","9":"tag-fondazione-qualivita","10":"tag-mauro-rosati","11":"tag-ministero-delle-politiche-agricole-alimentari-e-forestali","12":"tag-olio-dop-riviera-ligure","13":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n