Intensive agriculture, with the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides to meet the needs of agro-industry, has had disastrous consequences on the environment. Over the years, this practice has eliminated soil fertility, contributing to water and air pollution and causing a significant decline in biodiversity in all places where it is practised.

To address this environmental crisis, it is essential that agriculture returns to its primary purpose, that of producing healthy, high-quality food, respecting ecosystems and their biodiversity. To date there is no ready-made solution to this problem, but one of the most promising approaches is represented by regenerative agriculture, which aims not only to reduce the impact of this human activity, but also to reverse the degradation process, to regenerate the soil and reduce pollution through the implementation of integrated ecological systems.

Regenerative agriculture is based on the innovative vision of a series of traditional practices, which aim to restore fertility and vitality to the soil, for example through crop rotation, conscious management of vegetal cover, the use of intercrops and plants defensive measures for protection from diseases and harmful insects and the use of natural fertilisers. These methods are experimental and require investments that are not necessarily profitable, but are fundamental for identifying long-term solutions for the correct cohesion of man and nature.

Thanks to the revenues of Almo Nature, the Foundation Capellino, through its agricultural company RVF has been experimenting for years and will experiment with new and ancient practices of regenerative agriculture to organise sustainable food production, with the primary aim of overcoming the current model of agriculture that works in vertical way, still using high quantities of pesticides to ensure adequate production. Thanks to a scientific and systematic measurement of the effects obtained, and not simply empirical, it will finally be possible to define the truly effective practices that can be replicated and further validated in other contexts and in other environments.

To date, vineyards and agroforests are objects of study under various aspects, soil regeneration, elimination of pesticides and herbicides, mixed production, all also focusing on an important concept, that is, what is the maximum biodiversity possible and tolerable by an agricultural system to create a productive ecosystem but in balance with natural systems.