The role of EU rural development policy in supporting agroforestry systems: experiences, challenges and post-2013 perspectives in Italy.
Conference Paper
Publication Date:
2013
abstract:
The paper aims to highlight the growing interest in agroforestry systems in Europe. Agrofor-estry systems are nowadays recognised by the Com-mon Agricultural Policy (CAP) for their social, eco-nomic and environmental benefits. EU Rural Devel-opment Programmes (RDPs) provided for a specific measure (namely 222) to support farmers and land-owners to adopt these systems. Despite this, very limited implementation of the measure has occurred in the frame of 2007-13 RDPs. The main constraints that have hampered the success of 222 in EU27 and Italy are reported and discussed. It is expected that these limits will be removed in future RDPs (2014-20), partly thanks to the lobby activity carried out by the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF).
Iris type:
04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Keywords:
EU polict; agroforestry; rural development
List of contributors:
Paris, Pierluigi; Pisanelli, Andrea
Book title:
Proceedings of the XXV Conference of the European Society of Rural Sociology "Rural resilience and vulnerability: the rural as locus of solidarity and conflict in time of crisis"