Fifty years ago, analyzing the characteristics of agriculture in Southern Italy and the prospects facing it, Manlio Rossi-Doria put forward the famous metaphorical division into two main zones: the «beef» areas, with good prospects for rapid development, and the «bone» areas, characterized...

The issue of peasant economy and conditions is examined taking as reference point Manlio Rossi-Doria’s deliberations on the subject – a set of propositions that led to a full-fledged analytic paradigm, progressively developed between 1920 and 1960. In its ultimate formulation the paradigm...

Between 1954 and 1955, in the context of a project launched by the Unesco social research section on the effects of agrarian reform in Italy, Manlio Rossi-Doria took on responsibility for and coordination of the surveys to be carried out at Scandale, a commune in the Marquisate of Crotone, in...

The Manlio Rossi-Doria Papers offer invaluable information about the nature and fruits of his cultural and scientific labours. This initial exploration of the Pa-pers focuses on two aspects of his work: on the one hand, how and when his pro-gress in work and study led him towards other fields in...

[eng] In order to fill the latent demand of the various homogeneous sub-groups which together make up a heterogeneous agriculture, advisory services must operate under the following principles : they must be closely linked with research ; their location in the field should spread down to each...

The large-scale operations in land redevelopment, culminating in the 1950s and 1960s, played a major part in changing the social and productive pattern of agriculture in the South of Italy, the Mezzogiorno. The successes achieved are largely to be attributed to the competence and endeavour of an...