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...

Policies tending to tax farmers in low-income countries and subsidize them in high-income countries have been identified as a major source of disequilibrium for world agriculture. Recently, on advancing from low-income to middle-income status thanks to successful industrialization, many...

The recent publication in Italy of several books on rural development policy and the commitment shown by many of the actors and institutions to its implementation contrast with the evidence of an administration showing scant propensity to dedicate efforts to targeting and selecting, integrating...