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Cheese sorts are very different from each other, even when they are labelled by Farmers' Cooperatives. Cheese expert Renato Brancaleoni reveals for us the secrets to read cheese labels properly when we want to buy a quality product. The French boast about their 365 cheese varieties, one for every single day of the year. In Italy we just haven't been as good as them in promoting the hundreds of cheese types we produce from the Val d'Aosta to Sicily. In our supermarkets, the range is not very wide and it is normally limited to industrial products.

Sheep breeding on an extensive, semi-wild scale is a factor for environmental protection, fire prevention and defense of biodiversity. Fantasy and innovation to make sheep breeding a competitive and profitable sector. This “recipe” for success was created by the Organic Farm “La Porta dei Parchi”, one of the leading representatives of farm cooperatives, promoting partner of ARPO (Association of the Sheep Breeders in Abruzzi, Italy) and member of Uiaproc. Based in Anversa degli Abruzzi, small village in the province of L'Aquila, this farm has “conquered the world” with its brilliant projetcs, all featured with one common mission: saving sheep breeding from extintion (in Abruzzi, the presence of sheep amounts to 350 head today, in comparison with 3 millions before the First World War).