Elio Pezzi explains the phenomenon of «Generative Territories» starting from the «Community Cooperatives»

There is a lot of talk about the recovery of the “Internal Areas” and their development to maintain the bond of the small villages, especially in the Apennines, which have seen the specter of depopulation materialize, but apart from a few special provisions, with relative infusion of funds, nothing it’s systemic.

Perhaps the right coinage, to then be included in national legislation, could come from the experience ofEmilia Romagna with its regional legislation which established the “Community cooperatives”a new contemporary declination of social cooperatives. Here the intervention arises from the needs of the territory: «When the State withdraws from a marginal place and even a post office or other services are missing», then it is time to create a community cooperative that will allow businesses of this kind to be set up more diverse, from the pizzeria, to the bakery, to the parish cinema, which create communities by providing solid jobs to young people in the logic of environmental and cultural sustainability, respecting the vocation of individual places.

Elio Pezzihistoric press officer of the Confocooperative of Emilia Romagna, as well as a poet of national importance, he produced a text to explain this phenomenon “Generative territories. Stories of community cooperatives in Emilia-Romagna told by their protagonists”, which is a summary of interviews of the individual recovery experiences of the various and multiple internal areas of the Emilia-Romagna Apennines. Twenty-four are the villages that, also taking advantage of the mutualistic Fondosviluppo of the Confcooperative, have managed to revive themselves as a community.

“Suburbs” as he calls them Pope francesco, which had nothing to do with underdevelopment, but which were just waiting to start again. Environment, food and wine, hiking: in general by creating places of cultural and environmental receptivity based on a history of heartfelt communitarianism, this is the mantra for regenerating territories that only needed a social and economic input to recreate sociality.

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