- - Stopping hunger, ensuring food security and promoting sustainable agriculture;
- - Promoting fast, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full employment and decent work;
- - Ensuring sustainable production and consumption patterns.
- - Food security, by enhancing local food systems;
- - Promoting ecological trends in agriculture;
- - Supporting agricultural research, support services, small farmers associations and investments by the private sector.
Though registering a slowdown due to continuing economic crisis, migration is constantly escalating in recent years, and according to estimates it is going to remain a major issue in the next decades both in departure and destination countries. ICEI has been increasingly concerned with the issues of migration and social cohesion, in a local/domestic perspective but also in a wider global context including Souther countries. ICEI has identified two intervention lines: “Migration” and “Intercultural citizenship”, both in order to promote the positive role of migration, by valorizing the opportunities brought about by migrants, and to facilitate social and/or economic inclusion paths, based on an intercultural and two-directional approach, for vulnerable population groups (both migrants and not) in Italy and in Europe.
The intervention lines are:
- - Cooperative paths to support the return and reintegration of migrants in their countries of origin, in view of valorizing their contributes to local development.
- - Innovative paths for work and social integration, sinergically with other actors – public and private, profit and nonprofit, locally (Milan), in Italy and Europe – by coordinated actions: from training to experimenting micro-entrepreneurial initiatives.
- - Supporting and working with foreign communities (both associated and not, of recent immigration and not) to enable them to be active protagonists in their local context, in a process perspective going beyond the single project.
Due to major geopolitical chaos, the destinations of international tourist flows have reduced in recent years. In many countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Kenya) tourist arrivals collapsed due to terrorism threats or ongoing conflicts. Tourism therefore appears an extremely volatile industry, too exposed to political and environmental variables. While mass tourism is blamed for not creating development in the countries where it is practiced, international bodies are increasingly identifying a valid response in environmentally sustainable and socially responsible tourism. In fact community-based and sustainable tourism, compared to mass tourism, shows different trends, often even countertrends, resulting in greater stability.
The objectives of ICEI’s action in this area are:
- - In developing countries: designing and managing projects aimed to local development, valorization of natural resources and artistic and cultural goods, fighting poverty and creating employment by community-based tourism.
- - In Italy and in Europe: investing to create the conditions for direct presence in Italian and European regions, by local development projects, valorizing natural resources and artistic and cultural goods, and creating employment by community-based tourism.
- - Contributing to reconverting the tourism industry to practices based on sustainability and social responsibility.
