Officinal plants: an opportunity for socio-economic development in basilicata
2021
Sica, Carmela | Dimitrijevic, Aleksandra | D’Oronzio, Assunta M. | Dimitrijević, Aleksandra | Zlatanović, Ivan
For some years, consumers have been buying more genuine and healthy products and they are more attentive to environmental protection, therefore they are more likely to use natural products, including Officinal Plants (OP), for nutritional, aesthetic and therapeutic purposes. Also in Basilicata, a region of southern Italy, there is a growing attention towards OPs. In the last ten years, implementing the European policy objectives, the Rural Development Plans of Basilicata have activated innovative processes aimed at increasing the competitiveness and sustainability of the supply chains and at increasing and enhancing production. The transnational cooperation project MEdicinal PLAnts in a SUstainable Supply chain. Experience of land use practices (MEPLASUS) fits into this logic of sustainability, it involves the production of OPs according to innovative supply chain models and circular economy able to promote competitiveness, including the economic and social aspects, of OP producers and processors, through the creation of full integration between the world of research and the world of production.
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