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The endurance and vitality of European agriculture are threatened by the aging of farmers, together with the lack of generational change. The small share of young farmers also impacts on the innovative capacity and competitiveness of the sector. The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union started addressing the issue long ago by providing...
The ever-increasing development of assisted evolution technologies (AETs) in agriculture has boosted crop improvement. The commercialization of improved biotech crops can be promoted by modern gene editing instead of conventional genetic modification, which is a cheaper and faster approach that can help address future agriculture challenges, such a...
Recently, food-related policy initiatives have proliferated, such as food strategies, food plans, food councils, food districts and food communities, just to name the more relevant ones. Far from being systematically defined and logically systematized, these concepts often overlap or are used as synonyms. The paper has systematically traced the cur...
L'industria alimentare e delle bevande è una componente trainante del settore manifatturiero nazionale: rappresenta, infatti, il 10,8% del valore aggiunto, il 15,7% del valore della produzione venduta e il 12,6% dell'occupazione (dati 2021).
Essa ricopre un ruolo di assoluto rilievo all'interno degli scambi agro-alimentari italiani, soprattutto dal...
On January 1, 2023, a "reformed" Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will come into force, which is innovative by nature in structural terms, and focused on environmental and social sustainability issues, aimed at a comprehensive digitization-based modernization of the agri-food sector. Th e new CAP keeps the current structure based on expenditure and...
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are one of the most direct approaches to more directly connecting consumers with producers. The scaling-up of SFSCs is often challenged by critical issues which can be overcome with identification of the most sustainable, replicable schemes. This paper presents the results of a participatory analysis conducted withi...
Among the keys that enable the actors in the food chain in becoming more sustainable, the Strategy assigns an important role to knowledge and information. For this reason, the Farm to Fork Strategy aims to make the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), the main data source of sustainable indicators, turning it into a Farm Sustainability Data Networ...
Uno degli elementi innovativi del periodo di programmazione 2023-2027 è stata l’unificazione sotto il regolamento sui Piani strategici della PAC (PSP) dei pagamenti diretti, dello sviluppo rurale e degli interventi settoriali, questi ultimi derivanti dall’OCM unica. Nell’ambito degli interventi settoriali emergono alcune ulteriori novità: la fine d...
The release of the new Italian Agricultural Census shows many features in line with the previous decades and also some novelties, which shall be properly investigated in the upcoming future. The reduction in number of farms was largely announced and in line with the overall declining trend. However, in 2020 the average farm size has grown, showing...
The spread of the COVID-19 virus in Italy during the first phasis of the pandemic (February-May 2020) has caused a large-scale crisis, with an almost immediate decrease of industrial production and a consequent contraction in domestic consumption and external trade. However, the issue of food security was immediately recognized as one of the most s...
The Italian wine supply chain has performed well in recent decades both in terms of profitability and success on the domestic and international markets. This is despite the fact that it is fragmented in terms of products, prices and consumption context, and, in particular, despite the fact that it is characterised by an organisation that hinders th...
The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and with it the EU wine policy, is experiencing a reform process, started in 2018, in order to address ambitious environmental and social objectives, in conjunction with the goal of a competitive agricultural sector.
Given the role of the EU in wine supply, the aim of this paper is to present the design, the...
The Report presents the first results of a survey on the effects of the COVID-19 emergency on the Italian agricultural sector and on the solutions adopted by farms to face the problems associated with the Lockdown.A direct survey was conducted aimed at collecting information from some Italian farms, which are part of the FADN sample.
The responses...
Changes in lifestyles involve many aspects of food consumption widely analysed in literature, while the development of specific distribution forms, such as the vending machines, are less known and still perceived unsuitable to respond to the segmentation of demand. This sector is recording impressive growth rates. Italy is the country in Europe wit...
The paper analyses the evolution of agricultural diversification activities in Italy by comparing data from national and European statistical sources. From this exercise critical aspects emerge in the classifications currently in use, at both National and, more in particular, at European levels. Results of the analysis show how the EU categorizatio...
Cambridge Core - Natural Resource and Environmental Economics - Wine Globalization - edited by Kym Anderson
Rome is a typical example of a metropolitan area where food supply and distribution are rapidly evolving. The city is characterized by an higher per-capita income compared to the national average, together with a lower incidence of food on the total private household expenditure. Rome is also one of the most expensive cities in Italy, that recently...
The review of the European Union (EU) budget and the Common Agricultural Policy reform are tightly connected issues influencing
each other. We assume that the outcomes will be influenced by their impact on the net balances of Member States (MSs), and
use isobudget and isobalance functions to analyse different hypotheses about the EU budget expendit...
Direct payments have progressively become the largest and most visible form of support in the CAP tool-box. Analyses on direct payments have always highlighted a large inequality in their distribution, both between Member States and, within them, among farmers and territories where, on one side, a relevant amount of payments is concentrated in the...
The set of policy tools that the EU puts under the heading of Rural Development is extremely heterogeneous, such heterogeneity translates into a different degree of coupling support with agriculture production and also brings out the need to discuss the actual consistency of such tools with the UE position on NTCs at WTO. Examined in the present wo...
The set of policy tools that the EU puts under the heading of Rural Development is extremely heterogeneous, such heterogeneity translates into a different degree of coupling support with agriculture production and also brings out the need to discuss the actual consistency of such tools with the UE position on NTCs at WTO. Examined in the present wo...
