Metropolitan City of Rome Capital and ASIA at the FAO!

We publish below the press release of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital regarding our participation in the WFF flagship event:

GREEN SCHOOL Italia supports, through a series of tools, the schools that commit to promoting sustainable development and adopting good practices, thereby reducing their carbon footprint and encouraging, among students, families and communities, the adoption of active and virtuous behaviours towards sustainability. Through this path all the school staff will implement strategies to reduce their carbon footprint and will learn to measure it. The Green School Italia Programme, of which Department III of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital and ASIA are territorial partners, works on six pillars: energy saving, water saving, sustainable mobility, waste reduction and correct waste management, biodiversity and reduction of food waste.

This last pillar aroused the interest of the FAO, and in particular of the Youth Assembly of the World Food Forum, which invited us to take part in their flagship event on the transformation of agri-food systems and the fight against food waste, to be held in Rome, at the FAO and online, from 16 to 20 October next (event link: https://flagship.world-food-forum.org/2023).

The Forum aims to foster dialogue and debate among the stakeholders, ranging from young people, to farmers, to small-scale producers, to indigenous peoples, to politicians, to agricultural investors and to scientists, tuning in from the four corners of the world, all with a single Goal: to move the needle towards food security to achieve a better food future for all, leaving no one behind, promoting bold and actionable solutions to catalyse the transformation of our agri-food systems in light of the current challenges and crises, highlighting the importance of the collaboration between the current and the next generation and their combined ingenuity in science, technology and innovation – and investments in the key sectors of food and agriculture .

The Green School Project will take part in the event by organizing one of the many initiatives on the agenda, namely a one-and-a-half-hour demonstration on how composting is done and how individuals and schools can easily start it in their own garden.

The initiative will take place on 19 October, from 9.30 to 11.00.

The session will be mainly addressed to young people between the ages of 18 and 36:

We will involve the students of the final years of the upper secondary schools joining Green School, not only to take part as an audience (in person or online), but also by selecting some students (3 or 4 volunteers in total) who wish, after training by CMRC and the Italian Composting Association (AIC), to demonstrate how the various phases of composting take place and to carry out small, simple experiments for the audience present, making the participation of all those present dynamic and active.

The event is structured into three activities carried out in parallel:

– presentation of the GREEN SCHOOL project, curated by the Metropolitan City and ASIA, and a technical and scientific introduction to the practice of composting, with the scientific support of AIC;

– hands-on composting activities carried out by the students;

– screening of a video, with English subtitles, dedicated to showcasing experiences with composting.

The GREEN SCHOOL certification award ceremony during the Festa della Sostenibilità