Fertile soil consumption burns 1 billion euros worth of food per year in Italy, with cementification and wild photovoltaics eroding thousands of hectares of farmland, worsening Italy's food dependence on foreign countries. This is according to a Coldiretti estimate based on Crea-Ispra data. Wars and pandemics have not stopped land consumption, which, according to the latest Ispra report, on the contrary, has accelerated, arriving at "erasing" 76.8 square kilometers hectares of land, at the rate of 2.4 square meters per second. A figure that is up 10 percent from the previous analysis and which tells us that, overall, the areas occupied amount to just under 2.2 million hectares (7.14 percent of the national total).
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