AGROFORESTRY ACTIONS IN ITALY: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS USING THE EUROPEAN DATABASE FADN
Keywords:
rural development funds, multiple regression model, Italian afforestated surfaces, efficiency, Granger causality, multifunctionality, rural depopulationAbstract
In Italy over the last 20 years there has been a growth of afforestated surfaces stimulated by activated measures financed
by the second pillar of Common Agricultural Policy. The impact of funds allocated by the European Union to promote agroforestry
and other actions about rural development has been investigated throughout the dataset Farm Accountancy Data
Network (FADN). Using a quantitative approach, or rather a multiple regression model on the time series of the FADN, it has
been possible during more than 20 years to evaluate the role of financial supports both towards the rural development and also
specifically on the growth of afforestation in Italy, which may be pivotal to farms to promote multifunctionality and to lessen
the rural depopulation. Another quantitative paradigm has found out, as there are not relationships of causality between the
variable afforestated surfaces and funds allocated to promote the rural development as well. The analysis of efficiency has
been the most and foremost aspect to estimate during three different seven-year time of implementing of Rural Development
Programs if there has been a negative change in economic and technical efficiency in Italian farms.
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