The document summarizes a case study of agriculture and terraced landscapes in the Cembra Valley in Italy. It describes three sustainable development projects focused on: 1) valorizing local agricultural products; 2) promoting agro-biodiversity and organic farming; and 3) collaborating with ITLA. The projects aim to improve cooperation between producers and economic operators, spread concepts of sustainability, and maintain traditional terraced systems. Results include a map and events reinforcing relationships between stakeholders. The study concludes that maintaining terraced landscapes requires cultural support from the community to understand benefits and consider fair trade or public contributions given high cultivation costs.

1. Agriculture and terraced landscape in
Cembra Valley (Trentino, Italy)
A case study of reciprocal promotion
Damiano Zanotelli
Cuzco, 19-22 May 2014

2. Where we are
Val di Cembra

3. Main Features of Cembra Valley
WINE PRODUCTION
PORFID ROCK and NATURAL RESOURCES

4. Grape harvest

5. Sustainable Development Project
• 3 actions:
1. Valorizazion of local agricultural products
2. Agro-biodiversity and organic farming
3. Collaborations with ITLA
Financed by:

6. 1. Valorization of traditional
agricultural products
• Objectives
– Improve cohesion between producers and economic operators
– Diffusion of concepts related to a sustainable development an
to the importance of maintaining the traditional terraced system
• Methods
– Courses on economic and environmental aspects of Cembra
Valley
– Meetings to reinforce relationships among different
stakeholders
• Risultati:
– The map „Navigare in Valle di Cembra“ represents a good
synthesis of the results.

9. 2. Agro-biodiversity and organic farming

10. 2. Agro-biodiversity and organic farming

11. Collaborations with ITLA
• Objectives:
• To Tranfer the founding principles of ITLA
• Reinforce a netwoork among different terraced areas of Italy
to promote the contemporary value of terraced landscapes
• Results:
• Survey and interviews about the traditional knowledge
(small publication „Working the Landscape“)
• ITLA conference, Albiano (Cembra Valley) May 2013
• A dry stone course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUB8g6-6NQg
• Documentary and website „Talking stones“

12. a BLIND TEST
Influence of the Landscape
quality on wine preference
degradato monotono
ben conservato evocativo
Prof. T. Tempesta
(University of Padova)
Albiano (Cembra Valley)
5 maggio 2013
Study conducted in Veneto region (Italy) with the «conjoint analysis» methodology on 224
interviews, 5 series of tasting and 4wines per serie

13. CONCLUSIONS
• Due to the high costs of cultivating on terraces there is
a need of a cultural maturation of the whole
community, which should understand all the benefits
of a well maintained landscape and consider the option
of sustain the system either by a fair trade or by public
contributions
• There is a general increasing interest on the agricultural
sector made. The agricultural activity should be also
economically sustainable to make any restoration
project durable for years.
• It is important to keep going the debate about the
contemporary value of the terraces and the work done
by ITLA in this field is particularly remarkable

14. And thank you for your hospitality and your attention 
Thanks to the main collaborators: