Coldiretti Giovani Impresa: The Italian Young Farmers
Coldiretti Giovani Impresa is the young movement of Coldiretti, representing young farmers between 18 and 30 years old. Coldireti Giovani Impresa is widespread throughout the Italian Country, with local offices and tutors willing to help new young entrants. We make our experience available to young people who come to us, offering support through training courses, services and funding paths. We have created a Tutor service that has become the reference point for the many young people who, like us, will invest in agriculture.
Coldiretti Giovani Impresa looks to the future by focusing on innovation, in order to develop innovative agricultural enterprises linked to territories, well-being, quality, typicality, originality, attention to the environment and the citizen-consumer relationship. For more than ten years we have been rewarding innovation in agriculture with the Oscar Green competition, which each year sees around 1,000 young people contending for the award. We are young entrepreneurs, who have often chosen to leave the cities preferring the countryside. We passionately defend the values and traditions of our fathers while promoting innovation.
From these values, a model of economic development takes hold that intertwines processes of integration along the supply chain (production-transformation-marketing of food) with paths of diversification and / or interaction with other sectors (tourism - craftsmanship - trade - services to people, environment and the territory) and innovation strategies (product - process - relations with the territory.
Starting from the Italian territories we are projected to conquer world markets with both our distinctive and innovative excellence and sustainable products.
We represent more than 70 thousand young farmers who believe in the following values:
• Defense of the true Made in Italy, made up of products that, right from the raw material, originate and are processed in our country.
• Safeguarding the territory and its biodiversity.
• Protection of consumer health, which is why we have always focused on original agriculture, made of raw materials and non-genetically modified products.
• Promotion of transparency and traceability of products.
Enrico Parisi, born in 1992, was elected National Delegate of Coldiretti Giovani Impresa on 4 October 2023. After graduating in business economics and management from Bocconi in Milan and the internship experience in Brazil at the Italian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro in the wine sector, in 2016 Enrico chose to return to Calabria to work in the winery family focusing on the production of organic extra virgin olive oil. In 2017 it introduced the numbered selection "IGP Olio di Calabria". The Parisi Agricultural Company, which has been operating for four generations, is located in the Corigliano – Rossano area in the province of Cosenza, on the upper Ionian coast, an area particularly suited to the cultivation of oil olives and citrus fruits. The company cultivars are Dolce di Rossano, Carolea, Tondina and Nocellara, together with other minor ones. The Parisi company aims for innovation by using decision support systems to monitor the progress of pathologies and to evaluate the quantity of water present in the field and in plant tissues. Within the company, Enrico experimented with the initiative "+ cheolio collettiamo cultura" which, in collaboration with a local social cooperative, created the first social vegetable garden in Corigliano Rossano, inspired by the motto "grow together to grow better". tomatoes and peppers were thus used as an "agricultural pedagogy" tool for disabled people. Since 2017 he has been a young manager of Coldiretti, first as provincial delegate of Young Enterprise Coldiretti Cosenza, and then of the Calabria Region. Since June 2023 he has been President of the Provincial Federation of Cosenza. In November 2021, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, awarded 'motu proprio' the title of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic to Enrico Parisi "for his passionate contribution to the promotion of social, environmental and economic sustainability practices", in occasion of the presentation of the OMRI honors awarded to citizens distinguished for acts of heroism and civil commitment. In November 2022 he represented Coldiretti Giovani Impresa as a member of the (CEJA) European Council of Young Farmers, at the International Young Farmers Summit organized by PAFO (Pan African Farmers Organization), which took place in Kigali, Rwanda. In May 2023 he participated for Coldiretti in the General Assembly of the World Farmers' Organization as speaker in the first panel on sustainability, safety and new business models in agri-food (Johannesburg, South Africa). In July 2023 he was invited by PAFO (Pan African Farmers Organization) as a member of OMA (World Farmers' Organization) and as a young agricultural entrepreneur of Coldiretti, to the 5th Ministerial Conference on Agriculture between the African Union and the European Union, held at FAO.
Stefano Leporati, a graduate in law, with a specialization in economic policies, has been National Secretary of Coldiretti Giovani Impresa since March 2021. Since 2007 he has been working in Coldiretti as head of economic policies, in particular following the evolution and application of the Common Agricultural Policy, Rural Development plans, strategic supply chains and internationalization projects. Since 2010 he has participated in the annual drafting of the report "The green economy in Italy" and is editor of articles in "il Punto Coldiretti" and in various newspapers. Since 2018 he has been President of the Agri-food Technical Commission of ISMEA - Institute of Services for the agricultural and food market. In 2017 he obtained a Master in Precision Agriculture and in 2021 he obtained an Executive MBA - Master of Business Administration of the Politecnico di Milano.