Regional and high-quality food is not an end in itself, as the Corona crisis teaches us. “Industrialized food production is not guaranteed when something big like a pandemic happens,” says Cassiano Luminati, who headed the AlpFoodWay project from 2016 to 2019. “It also shows how resilient the Alpine region is.”

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Photo: Local specialities are to become part of the intangible cultural heritage of the Alps. © Caroline Begle, CIPRA International