New ecological agro-environment strategies in the Metropolitan territory of Bari

The latest trivialization of suburban ecosystems, mainly due to the expansion of the sprawl phenomena and the resulting peri-urban agricultural soil, associated to the fragmentation of the natural areas for the realization of new facilities and of the industrialization processes of agriculture, is causing a relentless “artificialization” of Mediterranean landscape contexts with the consequent depletion of their endogenous resources, a phenomenon that can also be possible to find in the existing habitats in the metropolitan area of Bari. The Lame (erosive cracks), real geomorphological identity components of the karstic territory of the Apulia Region, have always been eco-landscape corridors, a peculiar natural and cultural heritage composed of a high level of biodiversity, potentially of greenways to be discovered and be protected for public use, related to the increase of economic growth and a model of sustainable development to be pursued for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda policies of Sustainable Development. The promotion of innovative projects related to food culture for the cities, the valorization of the beauty of both distinctive landscape and urban ecosystem constitute innovative assumptions for the promotion and the development of partnership forms between enterprises, research centers, territorial representations and stakeholder.The territorial governance and cooperation associated to the modern urban planning policies and to the adopted strategies in the present case, the metropolitan area of Bari, as identified by the Del Rio Law 56/2014, show how the vision of a plan pilot founded on the agrifood can renew a long-term competitiveness and transform at the same time the processes of sustainability, social innovation and urban development. The ecological planning shows how the policies on the ecosystems safeguard turn out to be extremely important for the purpose of multidisciplinary approaches, leading towards an integrated action able to go beyond the single-sector policies, such as those related to agronomic, urban planning, soil protection, nutrition, and the economic and social ones