Social capital in relation to social living and economic development: food and local products as engines for the development of the territory

This work is divided into two parts: the first signed by Roberto Veraldi on the social capital and its effect, the second by Leonardo Seghetti on an example of local development through grape cultivation. The social capital in relation to social living is a key to mouve the economic development, because is embedded with the human life and daily life. For example, the food is not only a mechanical intake of food, but very often is accompanied by a kind of conviviality, the pleasure of being together and eat. The act of consuming food, is also a form of identity of lifestyle: think of the Mediterranean diet, or the regionality of fine dining that represent one of the expressions of our being social individuals. But it also represents a powerful engine of communication associated with consumption of leisure and tourism; as well as exemplary instrument of cultural transmission of a given territory.