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| Puliga, Serenella; Marzetti, Annamaria; Canali, Stefano. |
| In Italy since the eighties, the scientific community opened a discussion on how to face many agricultural critical points, reconsidering old but renewed approaches to make agriculture more environment and consumer-friendly. In 1988 the first coordinated project on OF&F (Biological and integrated control of crop and forest pest and disease) was financed by MIPAF, involving 46 researchunits (research centres and universities). But it was only in the last decade that interest in organic farming really took off, when production methods continued to develop, along with consumers’ keen concern to be supplied with more wholesome, environment-friendly products. There was a major increase in the number of producers, and new initiatives got on the way for... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Italy; Research communication and quality. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/8800/1/puliga%2Detal%2D2006%2Ditaly%2Dresearch.pdf |
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| Puliga, Serenella; Marzetti, Annamaria; Canali, Stefano; Zecca, Francesco. |
| In Italy, as in other countries, Organic Food and Farming (OFF) research suffers from a very high fragmentation as it is carried out by many public research institutes, universities and private centres. In recent years, due to the increasing relevance of OFF within national rural development programmes, strong efforts have been addressed towards an improvement of the efficiency of the distribution of funds, the research system and the reorganization of its activities, and a reduction of overlapping initiatives. This paper presents projects and institutions currently working on OFF research in Italy, focusing on the available public financial instruments and the main projects funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry MIPAF. Most of the Italian... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Italy; Research communication and quality. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/4423/4/Puliga_etal_4p_revised%2Ded.doc |
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