Associate Professor at the Catholic University. His research activity focuses on: economics of agricultural and food markets, agricultural and food policies and industrial economics applied to the agricultural food system.
He is Director of the Research Centre on the Economics of the Pig meat supply chain since 2009.
He collaborates with INEA, the National Institute of Agricultural Economics, and with ISMEA, in the Centre on structural policies.
He has been also consultant for the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation) and for the World Bank.
The growth of organic farming in Italy is steadily increasing. In 2013, 1.3 million hectares were cultivated with organic methods, representing about 10% of the agricultural area. There are more than...
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