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 One year…

220 small farm cooperatives…

$1 billion of local food into mainstream markets.

How did they do it?

See the Change is pleased to invite you to a green trade mission to Italy to learn the models of the Italian local food success.

  • How the cooperative business model leverages small farm market penetration
  • What structure allows local Italian producers to reach major wholesale scale
  • Supply chain models that can be adopted to the US
  • Regional and state policies are in place that support their local farm cooperatives
  • Financing and banking programs that support small farmers

 

Our guests will spend 10 days seeing the Best of Class of Piedmont’s local food successes and learning from the key practitioners. The program is designed to give you knowledge you can immediately use to increase profit, improve service or advance your mission, all while having a rich and rewarding travel experience.

 See the Change Discover Italian Local Food Success Tour has been recognized by Fedagri, a leader in the Italian and European Union cooperative sector, as a significant program for international trade.

 Fedagri has agreed to be a co-sponsor of the tour, and share their extensive resources to assist our guests in learning the tools of Italy’s successful local food industry.

 

Business

Our guests will be meeting with Best of Class sustainable agriculture and local food businesses and services. We will be having workshops and meetings specific to Italian local food success on:

• Business Modeling                        • Supply Chain and Distribution

 • Policy & Law • Finance                • Operations

  • Production 

Relax and enjoy in networking events where our guests will meet with key decision makers & successful stakeholders to create global networks and establish business relationships.

 Pleasure

 • Wine tasting                     • Castles and villages

• Fine dining                        • Enchanting routes

• River cruise                         • Baroque architecture

This is Italy. We simply could not create a program that did not provide our guests the opportunity to have a rich and memorable experience. Our Italian tour professionals (www.raggiungere.net) have woven a program which is entirely local, engaging the best of both the dynamic city of Turin and the gently rolling agricultural and viniculture region of Langhe, home of Barolo wine and Slow Food Int’l. Our guests will walk and eat with farmers on their land, dine in elegant restaurants, have tastings in world class wineries, and visit elegant villas and historic sites.

 

Programs on the trade mission

  Produce
Production techniques at one Piedmont’s most successful cooperative farms
 Distribution Fedagri, a $1 billion annual sales Cooperative, focusing on how the small farmers aggregate their production for large scale wholesale market
  Supply Chain COOP, one of Europe’s largest hyper-markets, on the supply chain model they use to get the local food volume required by large retailers
  Wine Terre da Vino, a cooperative made of 14 wineries and 2500 growers, on how cooperatives allow them to scale
Policy and Law Piedmont Agency for Investment, Export and Trade on the regionaland national policies supporting the Italian cooperative sector and how they can be adopted to the U.S.
 Livestock La Granda cooperative, Piedmont’s premiere supplier of high quality local meats, on operations and distribution
Finance Banca d’Alba (Bank of Alba), a major lender to cooperative sector, on the financial tools available from banks to support local agriculture
 Slow Food Presidia Project, and setting up networks with local chapters
 Education University of Gastronomic Sciences presentation on the universities expertise and contribution

Download Free Italian Local Food Trade Mission PDF Brochure by Right Clicking Here.

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