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The Urban Marches versus the Rural Marches. A Statistical Analysis in a Local Development Perspective
No full textThe paper aims at giving a description of the actual territorial diffusion in the Marches of fea- tured integration between the structures of the agricultural activities and the structures of the other industries, interpreting––if possible––the different capabilities of farming to interact and integrate with industries, giving sense to the local industrial agglomeration and development. For this purpose, we have considered the ‘geography’ of the regional territory in 31 LLSs (Local Labor Systems of ISTAT) gathering socio-economic statistical data and elaborating them in order to model the territorial patterns of integration between farming and not agricultural industries. Results show the capability of farming to interact in the local labor markets, integrating indus- trial culture and labor calendars. Results are discussed in order to give some suggestions to eventually better govern the rural and agricultural policies, in a territorial viewpoint
Agri-food chain and sustainability: towards a measurement tool for socially responsible products
No full textSustainability and social responsibility can be measured trough several dimensions. This study aims to understand which ones are important for the consumers and how much information they are expecting on them. Too little information may be irritating for some consumer, too much may overload them. In this paper, we have developed and evaluated four different types of sustainable and socially responsible labels inspired from a multi-criteria decision aid approach. Each one has an additional piece of information. The research has evaluated the corporate social responsibility performance of three food companies operating in the Sannio area (South of Italy) that produce respectively oil, pasta and wine. The sustainability of their branded products has been measured and four different labels indicating their sustainable performance to internal and external stakeholders have been created. The elaboration of a standardized labelling system on food products, outlining their green, social and ethical credentials, is important to avoid to confuse the consumers and producers
Implementing the Future Rural Policy. A Multi-stakeholder Governance Test in Reality
No full textIn a changing and turbulent economic global scenario, the public sustain to agriculture will
face counteracting local forces originating from some local actors, unwilling to accept all the
facets of the CAP and the RDP. Power and leadership of actors and main social leader can help
or contrasts implementation of public policies. So that policymakers will not avoid the confrontation
with people and the hard work to continuously survey their willings and interests. The
comparison between two case-studies located in different Italian regions (the Marches and Friuli
Venezia-Giulia) showed the essential role of local interests in the success/failure of implementing
the public interventions. The paper reports results of case-studies located in different sociogeographical
areas, the case of the ‘Verdicchio of Matelica Wine Road’ in the Marches, and the
case of the ‘Rural District Bassa Pianura Friulana’. The failure of a proposed rural policy depends
on local counteracting interests. Implementing the Future Rural Policy in a view of positive success
does necessitate the continual and fatiguing consultations with local communities
Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU agri-food system: empirical assessment, economic evaluation and policy implications
No full textThe study intends to implement a measurement method assessing GHG emissions induced by food products in the EU throughout their whole life cycle, from production to consumption, so as to provide an useful information base for future mitigation strategies and sectorial policy implementation. To do that an Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis is conducted, based on a comprehensive and detailed model (E3IOT) representing the food sector and subsectors in the EU-25. This allowed us to provide: (i) a quantification of the magnitude of GHG emissions induced by each food sector along with their economic value; (ii) the identification of the most critical activities within each sector (i.e. sub-sectors and supply chain stages), that are responsible for the release of the largest share of GHG emission; and finally (iii) a discussion of the most appropriate strategies in the context of the recent new course of the CAP and European environmental policy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Fair Trade Attitudes and Consumer Behavior in Italy: a Comparative Analysis of two Attitudinal Scales
No full textThis paper aims to provide insights into consumer motivational systems and their relations with fair trade product purchasing behavior. In order to pursue this goal, the effectiveness of two alternative approaches, proposed in the literature and tested in Belgium and Germany, were formally validated in Italy. The two sets of scales were tested for predicting purchasing behavior by using a sample of Italian consumers. Although both sets of scales showed good internal reliability and statistical evidence of behavioral predictive validity, one of the two sets under assessment is able to depict actual behavior in much greater depth than the other
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