To save the farms and agri-food tradition of Sardinia, as well as to repopulate cities and rural areas at risk of desertification, young agriculturally skilled Kirkisi shepherds and their families are migrating to the island. This is the result of the Coldiretti agreement in Kyrgyzstan, the easternmost former Soviet republic, located 6,000 kilometers away from the island. The agreement signed by the Ministry of Labor of the former Soviet republic, provides for the launch of a professional and social pilot project with the arrival of a first group of one hundred Kyrgyz in Sardinia (aged between 18 and 45) with specific professional skills in the primary sector who will follow a path of training and integration into the economic and social fabric of the Region, with opportunities also for wives in the activity of family assistance. This is a long-term initiative that, in addition to strengthening the productive fabric, seeks to combat the abandonment of rural areas and small towns, which are also impacted by a decline in births and an aging population. It is a medium-to-long-term initiative that, depending on demand, will lead to the integration of thousands of foreigners through cultural mediators' interventions in three rural districts: Sassari, Barbagie, and Sarrabus.