The new farm between production and
territory: environmental protection, energy and social role of the
agriculture
17th of June 2015. Expo
2015,
Paglione Italia. Milan
In recent years, the Italian
agriculture has undergone profound changes that can be summarized as
follows: the direct management has become prominent in the farm and
the increase in firm’s size has occurred with greater use of
non-family labour, land management, and services outside the company. The concentration of farms in lowland areas has also expanded the
existing territorial dichotomies in Italian agriculture, since these
changes were faster in the North than in the South of Italy. Despite
the increase in firm’s size, which remains lower than those of the
others European Countries, there are still significant constraints
related to the lack of aggregation and bargaining power of the supply
that express the firm’s inability to support incomes and employment
in agriculture within different agri-food supply chains and districts
that characterize the Italian system.
Multifunctionality can be the new
unifying paradigm to bring post-modern agriculture in accordance with
the new societal demands. It is emphasized that in addition to
producing food and fibre, agriculture provides a wide range of
non-commodity goods and services, shapes the environment, affects
social and cultural systems and contributes to economic growth.
The concept of the Event is the food as
a vehicle of a plurality of values such as the quality of natural
resources, the local culture and tradition, the building of
sustainable practices in the management of labour and production
processes, the creation of confidence for the current and future
management and accessibility of these resources. The construction of
a new sustainable model of the agriculture, able also to respond to
consumers’ and citizens’ needs, requires a profound process of
social innovation, in line with the Europe 2020 strategy to promote
the smart, social and environmentally friendly development of the
society. Innovation, in these cases, is not exclusively reliant on
the generation of new technologies, but rather, on the ability to
launch a new model for the collective management of available natural
resources.
Objective of the event is to outline
the benefits associated to multifunctional agriculture, not only in
economic terms but also social and environmental through the
presentation of a series of Italian Best Practice (BP). Thanks to the
collaboration between the IRISS-CNR and Italian Farms, the followings
BP will be discusses during the event:
- Mario Faro, (Piante Faro), Fabio Magnotti (IRISS-CNR): Floriculture and landscape culture
- Alessandro Leone (Gruppo Mangimi Leone), Fabio Magnotti (IRISS-CNR): Production, distribution and land conservation
- Teresa Palmieri, (Vannulo Srl), Daniele Demarco (IRISS-CNR): New exploitation forms of the culture of Buffalo mozzarella
- Francesca di Criscio (Cantine di Criscio), Salvatore Romano (IRISS-CNR): The wine culture for the territory promotion
- Andrea De Rosa (Grania Srl), Tiziana Volpe (IRISS-CNR): The functional pasta between innovation and tradition
- Giuseppe Iorio (Società Agricola Iorio srl), Lodovico Santoro (IRISS-CNR): Fruit&vegetables and social inclusion in the “Terra dei Fuochi”
- Simmaco Perillo (Rete Economia Sociale-RES), Gabriella Tammaro (IRISS-CNR): Social Agricolture and sustainable development
The event is an occasion for the
Italian Multifunctional farms, the Research World, the Public
Institution and all other stakeholders, to discuss and share possible
actions for an effective sustainable development of
multifunctionality in the Italian agriculture.
