Episodi di siccità sempre più frequenti e gravi minacciano il settore agricolo italiano. Si prevede che il cambiamento climatico accelererà questa tendenza, pertanto il settore deve sviluppare una resilienza nel lungo periodo. A questo fine, saranno necessarie una pianificazione e una...

Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...

The process of restructuring the Venetian agriculture economy is among the most intense, rapid and tumultuous. It appears in some ways uncontrolled. The production reallocation seems to follow the Ricardian model. More and more focused on the plain, the particular land regime lies in the...

The paper does analyse the approach used in the rural development operational program of the Latium Region to fulfil the strategic requirements of the rural policies at the national and Euorpean level. The main aspects of the approach were the reinforcing of the managing authority and local...

The conventional wisdom used to consider agricultural backwardness as one of the main causes of the North-South gap. In recent years, historians have contested this view. This paper supplies the first estimates of Total Factor Productivity in 1911, with an extrapolation to the whole period...

Consumption of agricultural land through various forms of degradation, erosion, compaction, waterproofing, has an impact on the entire primary sector, with increasing costs. Thus, if the Italian surface is 30 million hectares, 17 is the total agricultural (SAT), but only 12 is actually...

The objective of analyzing the incentive system for the agricultural landscape function of the Veneto Rural Development Plan is accompanied by the evaluation case, in appreciating the effectiveness of the proposed interventions, comparing its actual implementation with the dictation of...

In the present work we tried to identify methods to rationalize culture with particular reference to practices that lead to higher costs of production, or the use of irrigation water resource and treatment of tobacco research as a whole was aimed at evaluating the sustainability of the supply...

Agriculture has always played a key role in our society, it has changed and adapted during the years until now with the award of a multifunctional role of agriculture in the wider socio-economic context. Among the non-agricultural activities is the '"Social Agriculture" which, although not yet...

The agricultural yield is affected by several risks, main of them are not controllable by humans. For this reason, the CAP has established several interventions to help guaranteeing a stable and appropriate income to farmers. One of the main policy interventions established in the current CAP...