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COVID-19 Drives Consumer Behaviour and Agro-Food Markets towards Healthier and More Sustainable Patterns

2020

This study examines the extant state of research into our understanding of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in its early stages on food-purchasing behaviour. As such, it includes a summary and categorisation of the findings, extending to consumption preferences worldwide. After the indiscriminate stockpiling of food, which was witnessed in many countries following the implementation of the lockdown, the impact of COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease-2019) on consumer habits has inversely varied in function of personal attitudes, individual and household experiences, and characteristics. Specific contexts, and the financial, economic, and logistic nature of these contexts, have also been foun…

Determinants of Ready-to-eat Products Purchase Intentions: An Empirical Study among the Italian Consumers

2018

The considerable diffusion of ready-to-eat products has focused attention on the reasons for their increasingly prominent success in the market. Although their prices are much higher than the prices of simple raw materials, their consumption has increased rapidly and with no end in sight, a situation that has challenged the conclusions of the classical literature on the importance of price and/or income in consumer decisions. In fact, more recent literature has broadened the classical vision by introducing potential additional variables that could influence consumer choice of certain foods. These variables, however, are not always easy and clear to identify because they reflect the cultural…

Monumental trees and their existence value: the case study of an Italian natural park

2015

The paper deals with the evaluation of the existence value of monumental trees in a protected area. Financial resources to be destined for protection interventions have been decreasing more and more, with a high risk of losing this natural heritage. A Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) survey was carried out among the Madonie Park (Sicily, Italy) resident households to evaluate the existence value of monumental trees of the nature trail named "Piano Sempria-Piano Pomo", represented by a population of "Giant hollies" and by 7 other individual trees. These are the main results of the CVM survey: the overall response rate was 40%, individual average WTPs ( Willingness To Pay ) were €12.37 for t…

Efficacy and Efficiency of Italian Energy Policy: The Case of PV Systems in Greenhouse Farms

2014

The production of energy from renewable sources is a form of energy production that has less impact on the environment than the traditional one. For the farmer this new form of production represents an opportunity, especially for the economic benefits that can produce, both in terms of the incentives provided by the public operator and for higher revenues, deriving from the sale of energy back to the grid and/or the savings generated by self-consumed energy, that help to increase the farmer’s income. In this paper, we analyzed a case study of a farm that has realized a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system on a greenhouse. In particular, firstly the farm profitability has been estimated a…

Le cooperative di comunità quali potenziale strumento per ripensare e valorizzare gli usi civici nelle aree rurali. Uno spunto di riflessione

2020

Regolate da frammentate normative regionali, le cooperative di comunità si caratterizzano per inserirsi pienamente nel quadro delineato agli artt. 2511 c.c. ss. e per la tendenziale coincidenza tra i soci di queste ultime e la popolazione insistente in un’area geograficamente limitata. La presenza di gruppi organizzati di individui che svolgono attività di valorizzazione dei territori può rivelarsi potenzialmente capace di stimolare l’attività economica locale e perseguire lo sviluppo comunitario e il benessere collettivo, in un’ottica di relazione sinergica tra interessi pubblici e privati. L’importanza di una dimensione intergenerazionale, tipica dello sviluppo sostenibile e particola…

Europe 2020 Strategy and New Policies for Marginal Areas

2014

Marginality should be seen as an a asset rather than a liability for a region or a community. Marginality reflects a strategy of economic development, and this paper also seeks institutional means for championing marginality over conformity.

Apprend-on mieux en école rurale ?

2007

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Analisi economica delle aziende che coltivano arance bionde nel territorio della DOP Arancia di Ribera

2010

La potatura agevolata conviene anche su piccole superfici

2011

Economic analysis of PV systems on buildings in Sicilian farms

2013

Abstract The photovoltaic sector in Italy in recent years has experienced a rapid growth also in the primary sector, thanks to substantial incentives guaranteed by energy policies, simultaneous reduction of investment costs and tax benefits. In order to better understand the growth of the PV industry in Italian primary sector, the aim of this paper has been to evaluate the economic convenience of four PV systems on farm buildings located in four different farms of the north-western coast of Sicily and realized during the second and fourth Italian feed-in schemes. For each feed-in scheme it has been considered a PV plant that sells the electricity to the grid and another in which the energy …