@article{Perretti:126219,
      recid = {126219},
      author = {Perretti, Biagio and Favia, MariaFara},
      title = {My neighbor is a farmer. How much agriculture is there in  the ENPI CBC Programmes for the Mediterranean Basin?},
      address = {2012-06},
      number = {707-2016-48389},
      pages = {11},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {CBC programmes are a key pillar of the current  neighbourhood policy of the EU, and will play
an even  stronger role in the next future. In this note a simple  framework for the assessment of
the relevance and impact of  these programmes was proposed, and some  preliminary
findingswhere discussed, for the ENPI MED CBC  and the Italy –Tunisia programme
The neighbour regions were  classified on the basis of structural heterogeneity and  strength of
interactions. In this framework, the  Mediterranean neighbourhood, could be classified as  “
separated” or “isolated” with a strong structural  diversity, that generates a potential for
intensive  interaction, and strong risks of tensions and open crisis.  Agriculture and rural areas
are among the sectors where  these features appear with the strongest intensity.
In this  scenario, CBC actions could contribute to the generation of  a virtuous process of
convergence, in the direction of  declining structural dualisms, and increasing synergic  flows.
This role is not played, or at least is not  significantly appearing yet in the ENPI CBC
programmes.
The  ENPI CBC strategy doesn’t explicitly identify rural  development issues as main priority.
The only two  programmes activated in the Mediterranean Basin MED and  Italy Tunisia, show
quite different focus on Rural Issues.  In the ENPI MED, rural issues are still marginal,  per
quality and quantity of projects. The smaller,  programme Italy-Tunisia seems much more
focused on the  theme, with a majority of projects directly targeting  agro-food topics.
A stronger impact of CBC programmes on  rural development seems opportune, specially after
the  structural changes brought by the Arab Spring, that demand  a new model of integration,
and sustainable development in  the Mediterranean Basin.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126219},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.126219},
}