TERRE DI TARTUFI – TRUFFLE LANDS

The safeguarding of the environment is now a worldwide well-known requirement, as an undeniable priority among the necessary acts revolved to the survival of living-beings. The main reasons of such a critic situation must be found in the eternal conflict between human needs and exploitations of the available natural resources, used to improve the life conditions of an ever increasing number of people and supporting the higher costs in terms of exhaustion of non-renewable resources, and of levels of pollution that represent a now-known danger to the health of human-beings. From here on, the need of ?nding sustainable ecological ways of overcoming this problem, which will bring more welfare to population. For a example new projects, with ambitious but very promising goals, are being worked out to guarantee the safeguard and conservation of the agricultural environment and to facilitate the state of biodiversity. One of these touches our territory very closely, in the area of Monferrato-Langhe-Roero and concerns a particular natural resource: the white-Alba truffle (Tuber magnatum pico). A product , which really characterises the local gastronomical tradition and it is a strong tool for constructive action to defend the agricultural territory and as a shuttle-cock of development in various areas of economical and turistic activities. The main goal of the Terre di tartufi – Truffle Lands association is to develop an ecological sustainable project to save a woody agricultural environment, which is still present in our region but risking to be lost or to become irrelevant, without the proper safeguarding management. Conservation, development and increase of the tartufaie of our territory mean the rescue of the woods, and trees represent an irreplaceable richness for the safeguarding of the environment, where we live. The tree is a fundamental living-being for the meteorological phenomena, climate improvement, production of useful materials used in many activities and for maintaining the biodiversity of the ecosystem. A tree absorbs nearly ten kilograms of carbon-dioxide during its lifetime,transforming it into oxygen. The esteemed white tru?e is the earth’s most precious and mysterious product. However, though a great number of scientific progress in the last few years have helped us to know new aspects of its biology and ecology, it is still not possible to cultivate. The safeguarding and the improvement of the natural production areas of the esteemed white truffle, therefore, represents the only approach to safeguard and increase the production.