Agriculture and New Forms of Restoration of the Territory

In recent decades, the economic agricultural scenario has undergone profound changes. Worldwide commercial contacts between the different States have become increasingly frequent. They have affected a growing number of workers, involved in a dynamic and changeable economic frame that has influenced both domestic markets and international trade. Globalization has changed the global economic balance, transforming productive structures and competitive positions among the various workers and stimulating a greater seasonal adjustment and homologation of food consumption. Simultaneously, new development models raise culture awareness of the territory as a "system of local development systems because within it there is the condensation of economic activities connected to a society and culturally rooted in it" (Becattini, 2009), where supply and demand meet on a local scale and where a community of values takes shape, recognizing both producers and consumers. Among the changes that have affected Italian agriculture over the last two decades, a growing interest is devoted to productive and organizational innovations carried out by agricultural companies, as well as to the landscape as a product and component of the agricultural project.