Abstract
Over the past two decades Italian agricultural systems have recorded an extraordinary change in their structural foundations partially due also to the contradictory CAP regulations. The most significant factors that have produced the accelerated evolution in our countryside are two: on the one hand, the recognition and acquisition by the primary sector of new economic, social, environmental and cultural functions, on the other hand, the renewed interest in the beauty of rural areas, the importance of technical sustainable agricultural production and the quality of the food supply sources. To all these aspects, researchers and the general public attribute today the fundamental role of guarantors for the quality of life and human health, animal health and environmental protection. It is a new awareness that, breaking the traditional delay with which the primary sector responds to the cultural activities, with unexpected timing, has translated into concrete, conspicuous forms of land corporate reorganization. Applying the qualitative and quantitative methodology of the Interuniversity Research Group GECOAGRI LANDITALY to the latest census data of the agriculture in 2010, the contribution considers the recent evolution of Italian agricultural systems to evidence landscape outcomes and territorial issues.
Highlights
Over the past two decades Italian agricultural systems have recorded an extraordinary change in their structural foundations partially due to the contradictory Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) regulations
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION The impact that the application of CAP2 regulations has had on the organization of European rural areas is significantly evidenced by the extraordinary and accelerated transformation of Italian agricultural systems
Notwithstanding the EU incentives were progressively directed towards the regionalization of interventions, the enhancement of rural landscapes and the protection of quality agrifood products, the evolution of Italian agricultural systems has registered a general concentration of land ownership and growth of industrial crops
Summary
Notwithstanding the EU incentives were progressively directed towards the regionalization of interventions (as shown below in paragraph 2), the enhancement of rural landscapes and the protection of quality agrifood products, the evolution of Italian agricultural systems (paragraph 3) has registered a general concentration of land ownership and growth of industrial crops Such processes can only be interpreted in light of the CAP contradictory regulations: the incentives granted have too often been absorbed by agro-industrial systems of North-Atlantic Europe in spite of the often declared intention that they were meant to support family farmers and Mediterranean velopment lagged behind. & CÔNG N introduction of the "single payment per company", independently from the size of the production units and subject to the adoption of "virtuous" agricultural practices This is the "last agricultural revolution" by which it is possible to understand the accelerated land ownership dynamism and the extraordinary transformation of Italian agricultural systems; a revolution that on the other hand appears to be mortgaged by the incentives to increase biomass production through expansion of non-food cultures (Climate-Energy Package "20-20-20")
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