Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli

This essay provides a first insight on the recently resumed production of the “Gigante (Giant) Vercelli”, a rice cultivar created in 1936, but whose production had ceased in the 1960s. We conducted our survey in the Vercelli area, the heart of one of the largest Italian agro-industrial districts. To...

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Main Author: Davide Porporato
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Language:Italian
Published: Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo 2021-12-01
Series:Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/aam/4764
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description This essay provides a first insight on the recently resumed production of the “Gigante (Giant) Vercelli”, a rice cultivar created in 1936, but whose production had ceased in the 1960s. We conducted our survey in the Vercelli area, the heart of one of the largest Italian agro-industrial districts. Today the cultivation of this variety of rice, which has a peculiar, natural resilience to rice blast, the most serious fungal disease on the planet, is possible everywhere, but its growing areal is limited to Piedmont. In 2018, the Slow Food “Gigante Vercelli” rice presidium was established, with a product specification highly attentive to sustainability issues.
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Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli
Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
sustainability
gastronomic heritage
Giant (Gigante)-Vercelli rice
Piedmont
Slow Food presidium
title Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli
title_full Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli
title_fullStr Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli
title_full_unstemmed Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli
title_short Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli
title_sort morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile le terre d acqua e il riso gigante vercelli
topic sustainability
gastronomic heritage
Giant (Gigante)-Vercelli rice
Piedmont
Slow Food presidium
url https://journals.openedition.org/aam/4764
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