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Dottorato di ricerca in Politica agraria ; La tesi mira a verificare l'impatto politico dell'agricoltura biologica all'interno di un territorio nel quale l'agricoltura in generale, ed il biologico in particolare, manifestano una spiccata rilevanza. L'analisi empirica è suddivisa in tre capitoli, ciascuno dei quali affronta l'agricoltura biologica della provincia di Viterbo da una diversa prospettiva. Dapprima si è cercato di valutare la dimensione del settore considerando sia le superfici certificate sia quelle oggetto di aiuto nell'ambito delle misure agroambientali. Successivamente, è stata eseguita una ricostruzione della distribuzione degli ordinamenti colturali con lo scopo di capire se e quanto i contributi per l'agricoltura biologica, differenziati per coltura e per area geografica, abbiano influenzato la scelta e la distribuzione territoriale delle coltivazioni. Infine, si è cercato di verificare quanto la pratica dell'agricoltura biologica consenta di ottenere una maggiore biodiversità, elemento che rappresenta, sia dal punto di vista ecologico, sia negli obiettivi delle politiche agroambientali, uno dei principali segnali della qualità ambientale. ; The aim of this thesis is to verify the impact of organic agriculture policy in the context of a territory particularly vocated to both conventional and organic agriculture. The empirical analysis is divided in three chapters, which focus on three different aspects of organic agriculture in the province of Viterbo. Firstly, the dimension of the sector, considering the certificated area as well as the sustained area, has been calculated. Then, a reconstruction of crop distribution, with the purpose of understanding if subsidies for organic agriculture might determine farmer's choices, has been carried out. Finally, since agro-biodiversity is considered one of the objectives of agro-environmental policies and one of the main signs of environmental quality, the relation between organic agriculture and agro-biodiversity has been investigated.

European cropping systems are often characterized by short rotations or even monocropping, leading to environmental issues such as soil degradation, water eutrophication, and air pollution including greenhouse gas emissions, that contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss. The use of diversification practices (i.e., intercropping, multiple cropping including cover cropping and rotation extension), may help enhance agrobiodiversity and deliver ecosystem services while developing new value chains. Despite its benefits, crop diversification is hindered by various technical, organizational, and institutional barriers along value chains (input industries, farms, trading and processing industries, retailers, and consumers) and within sociotechnical systems (policy, research, education, regulation and advisory). Six EU-funded research projects have joined forces to boost crop diversification by creating the European Crop Diversification Cluster (CDC). This Cluster aggregates research, innovation, commercial and citizen-focused partnerships to identify and remove barriers across the agrifood system and thus enables the uptake of diversification measures by all European value-chain stakeholders. The CDC will produce a typology of barriers, develop tools to accompany actors in their transition, harmonize the use of multicriteria assessment indicators, prepare policy recommendations and pave the way for a long-term network on crop diversification.

In its Communication on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020, the European Commission (2017) declared their ambition to foster a 'resilient agricultural sector'. The study presented in this report identifies various promising options for the CAP, including national implementations, to maximise its contribution to greater resilience of EU farming systems. These options serve as input for ongoing political debates on the reform of the CAP post-2020, the development of the proposed National Strategic Plans that spell out national priorities and implementation choices, as well as the European Commission's "From Farm to Fork Strategy", which aims to foster a circular food system, as part of the European Green Deal. For the UK case study (see below), we reflect on promising courses of action for post-Brexit agricultural policy. ; EU; en ; contact: jeroen.candel@wur.nl