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Discovering Lombardy’s reality on mountain products

In the beginning of autumn 2015, our Italian member ERSAF – the Regional Agency for Services to Agriculture and Forestry in Lombardy – welcomed our intern working on mountain products for twelve days. They showed her the day­-to-day life of the farmers living in the alpine valley of Valtellina. It was also the opportunity to get familiar with the everyday work of ERSAF and to find out how the EU optional quality term ‘Mountain Product’ is currently implemented in Italy and more specifically in Lombardy.

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24 November 2015

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