Biological District of the Bolognese Apennines

The Local Development Strategy developed by the GAL Appennino Bolognese is based on the desire to make the hilly-mountainous territory competitive, attractive and usable, through the creation of an integrated development system, based on the promotion of sustainable tourism and the enhancement of the agri-food quality supply chains. Small and micro businesses can be push in the position to compete on an equal level with other geographical areas, enhancing their specificities and their most appealing aspects: naturalness, landscape, quiet, healthiness, uncontaminated environments. From these needs it was born the need for a project capable of generating economic circularity and obtaining lasting and self-generating results. The identified operating instrument is the institution of a Biological District: an innovative synergic system of a geographic area suited to organic farming where farmers, citizens, tour operators, institutions, associations and public administrations follow the agreement for the sustainable management of local resources, starting from organic production and consumption model (short chain, purchasing groups, bio public canteens). In the Biodistrict, the promotion of organic products is combined with the promotion of the territory and its peculiarities, to achieve a comprehensive economic, social and cultural development. The project has two phases: Feasibility study; Application for the recognition of the territory in the Biological District.