{"id":8733,"date":"2025-09-24T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.caa.it\/the-center-now\/our-history\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:33:21","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.caa.it\/en\/the-center-now\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prof. Giorgio Celli <\/h3>[\/vc_column][vc_column el_class=”quote-block” offset=”vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-7″][vc_column_text css=””]The Centro Agricoltura Ambiente has been a dream that the scientific and political eclecticism of Giorgio Nicoli has been able to put into reality, and that remains a tangible testimony of its fleeting passage between us.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1761040178071{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #EDE9DE !important;}”][vc_column width=”5\/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1760630358867{padding-top: 4em !important;padding-bottom: 4em !important;}” offset=”vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-4 vc_col-xs-offset-1 vc_col-xs-10″ el_class=”order-lg-1 order-1″][vc_column_text css=””]The Centro Agricoltura Ambiente (CAA)<\/strong> was born from a meeting between Professor Giorgio Ce<\/strong>lli and Giorgio Nicoli<\/strong> \u2013 of which the Center bears the name \u2013 who attended the course of Biological Control Techniques at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bologna as a student held by Professor Celli.<\/p>\n

The professor recounts: \u201cAt the end of the last lesson, with which I hoped for the advent of a new agriculture, more oriented towards biology than chemistry, which was then abused, the student Nicoli, who did not he never had a hair on his tongue, he raised his hand, and when I motioned for him to speak, he asked me what I meant to do, concretely, because my wish was translated into action. It was a challenge, and I replied that I had no collaborator , and even less funding for research: I was, so to speak, an unarmed prophet. I sent him back the ball, asking him, between the serious and the facetious, if he himself would be willing to give me a hand. mo, and so did many other students, some from San Giovanni in Persiceto, his friends and destined to become mine too. Together, we developed a program of biological control of harmful insects, as a first step in making agroecology, and we decided to start operating \u2013 Giorgio Nicoli and his \u201cmusketeers\u201d as thesis students \u2013 in some orchards in the lower Bologna area \u201c.<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1760630314797{padding-top: 0px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/www.caa.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/storia-caa.jpg?id=428) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” offset=”vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″ el_class=”order-lg-2 order-2″]

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From those times CAA <\/strong>has come a long way, growing both from the structural and scientific point of view, up to, in 1992, also to the constitution of the limited liability company Centro Agricoltura e Ambiente Srl<\/strong>, for the supply of services in the sector of environmental protection.<\/p>\n

Today the Center, true to its name, carries out studies and research and develops projects that, also through the collaboration between public and private, enhance the territory and agricultural production.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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