The Organic-Districts, also defined as Eco-Regions or Bio-District, are territories where farmers, citizens, public authorities and other local actors realize a formal agreement aimed at the sustainable management of local resources, based on the principles and model of organic farming and on the agroecological best practices, in order to boost the economic and socio-cultural development of their community.
The Organic Districts, with all the local actors involved, act on the territory by adopting a bottom-up development model in which local communities decide to move towards a real local, sustainable and healthy food system. The Organic Districts are therefore a concrete response to the current trend of economic development, causing massive phenomena of abandonment of rural areas and the growing urbanization of people in search of better living conditions and higher incomes. The process affects both the most industrialized and developing countries, causing the degradation and progressive impoverishment of local resources, the loss of biodiversity and the traditional knowledge of local cultures.
