In highly urbanized contexts a strategy for improving food provision and a sustainable use of resources is needed. In order to ensure this, specific interventions should be supported by a background analysis, deepening the potentialities of the local system in responding to urban food demand....

The paper presents a model for integrated sustainability assessment at a farm scale. The SOSTARE model (analysis of farm technical efficiency and impacts on environmental and economic sustainability), in fact, aims at providing a diagnostic tool to farmers and advisory services to assess the...

The amount of agricultural land available in developed countries is decreasing by a degree which may profoundly affect in the long term the food security. This paper reports a quantitative investigation of the factors that contribute to this decrease, by analysing 30 countries during the period...

Negli ultimi anni l’urbanizzazione ha cancellato vaste aree agricole, soprattutto in zona periurbana. In un recente Disegno di Legge il governo italiano propone la valorizzazione delle aree agricole attraverso la limitazione dei terreni agricoli edificabili, con il controllo delle Regioni in...