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| Title: | Multifunctional agriculture: an analysis of country specialization and regional differentiation |
| Authors: | Pierangeli, Fabio
Henke, Roberto
Coronas, M.G. |
| Keywords: | Multifunctionality
territorial
specialization
multivariate analysis |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Member States acknowledge the
multifunctional role of the primary sector; however each
of them emphasises specific functions according to its
own model of agriculture and rural development. As a
result, the CAP and the demand of citizens addressing a
new role of the primary sector in post-industrial society
have contributed to develop a specialisation of
multifunctionality at the EU level that is more and more
visible moving from an aggregated territorial level
(Member Stares) toward a local one (regions).
The objective of this paper is to analyse the
specialization towards the secondary functions of
agriculture at two different territorial and institutional
levels: the national level (EU-25) and the regional level
(in Italy), with the support of a double-step multivariate
analysis (principal component analysis and cluster
analysis). The analysis shows that, downscaling the
territorial level, a more detailed specialisation towards
the secondary functions of agriculture emerges. This is
due to the crucial role of the interactions of the
agricultural activity with the social and environmental
context but also to the CAP that is more and more
decentralised at the territorial level. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44244 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 6 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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