The Spatial Patterns of Dairy Farming In Molise

Ievoli, Corrado; Basile, Roberto; Belliggiano, Angelo

doi:10.1515/euco-2017-0041

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“…3. Spatial proximity is also redesigned, it is no longer centered on knowledge externalities, deriving from localization and the existing tacit knowledge (Ievoli et al 2017), but from the collective action based on territorial values finalized to interact with the external context. This allows to obtain a new interest from the citizens of urban areas to the problems, needs, traditions and values of rural areas.…”

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Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

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Belliggiano

Marandola

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European Countryside

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The paper deals with the role of ICT and the related infrastructures to induce innovations for sustainable rural development. In particular, it focuses on the innovations induced by ICT in farms and in new rural firms, and on how digital infrastructures support and generate social innovation mechanisms, leading to the consolidation of entrepreneurship and dissemination of ICT-based innovation in rural areas. The hypothesis is that the presence of digital infrastructures generates a double effect: overcoming the concept of geographical proximity (relevant for remote rural areas) and promoting social innovation. In particular, this paper examines the role of social innovation to create a new demand for products, services and organisational models for farms and rural enterprises, promoting further innovation. To target the objectives, the work analyses three case studies of new business models (BMs) based on ICT innovation. The analysis focuses on the most important interactions, learning and organisational processes within the new enterprises and among the new farms/enterprises and the other economic and institutional actors, and on how they were shaped and changed by the use of ICT, relating them to a conceptual model. These three cases, although pioneering, are important since they give an original response to some of the main problems and needs of remote and inner rural areas, as for the access to high value segment of food market, the information deliveries about attractiveness of landscape and countryside for foreigners, investors and tourists and the creation of new stable relation with consumers/citizens in the urban areas. The three cases have been analysed with the aim to identify how the ICT, and the related innovations, create an interconnection between four characteristic elements of the BMs (value creation, supply chain, customer interfaces, financial model) and the restructuring of proximity dimensions (cognitive, institutional, social, geographical, organizational). The work shows how these three cases have several communalities, but also different aspects with respect to our objective of analysis: there are different ways in which the four characteristic elements of the BM are constructed and also different in the role that the different dimensions of proximity play in structuring the innovation process in each one of them. More generally, the results of the work also lead to consider a new role for public investments in ICT infrastructures: public administrations should intervene in order to create a coherence within projects of public and private initiatives.

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Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

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“…Molise is a region identified with the EU "competitiveness objective." Although it has a high potential for experiential rural tourism, due to its well-known agri-food tradition derived from the millennial tradition of transhumance [97][98][99], it has suffered a significant drop in the number of tourists engaging in farm tourism, which has led to a fall in the occupancy rate. Demand for agritourism has also collapsed in Campania, in terms of arrivals and in particular of nights spent.…”

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“…The sustainability index is very low and the reduction in flows is surprising, given the attractiveness of its rural areas such as the Cilento Molise is a region identified with the EU "competitiveness objective." Although it has a high potential for experiential rural tourism, due to its well-known agri-food tradition derived from the millennial tradition of transhumance [97][98][99], it has suffered a significant drop in the number of tourists engaging in farm tourism, which has led to a fall in the occupancy rate.…”

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The “Eco-Effectiveness” of Agritourism Dynamics in Italy and Spain: A Tool for Evaluating Regional Sustainability

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Rural tourism has commonly been identified as one of the main areas of application of the principles of sustainable tourism, but the literature has typically focused solely on the ecological dimension, particularly when referring to agritourism. This study presents a new approach to assessing the “eco-effectiveness” of the evolutionary dynamics of agritourism, as applied in a study of NUTS-2 regions in two European countries (Spain and Italy) that have implemented similar rural development strategies. To this end, a synthetic sustainability index was developed using the Index Decomposition Analysis (IDA) technique. The last period of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) 2007–2013 was chosen for the study in order to analyze the outcomes of a programming cycle focusing on the diversification of agriculture through tourism. The results show that the sustainability of agritourism growth is not homogeneous and has specific features in different regions of the same country. In some cases, there were more similarities with regions from other countries. This tool could help evaluate the impact of agritourism and facilitate comparisons between different regions, in this way supporting the process of transition from a linear to a circular economy.

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“…soil and climate, etc. ), market access, and spatial agglomeration externalities (Ievoli et al 2017). The latter are usually related to: economies of scale (in our case, again, farm size), location economies ("within" sector, that mainly concern skilled workers, specialized services as contractors, and information spill-over), and "between-sectors" externalities, mostly (again) knowledge spillovers (see Duranton and Puga 2001).…”

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The spread of no-till in conservation agriculture systems in Italy: indications for rural development policy-making

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No-tillage is a farming system aiming at minimizing soil disturbance associated with the cultivation of arable crops. This technique, together with the practices of continuous soil cover and of crop rotation, also represents one of the elements of the so called Conservation agriculture, a paradigm of sustainable agriculture that is spreading in many areas of the globe. The aim of the work is to examine the spread of No-tillage in Italy analyzing the modalities of adoption and the factors that can influence it. Modalities of adoption can vary depending on whether No-tillage represents an incremental innovation within the ordinary management of the farm, or a complementary element of an alternative technological paradigm identifiable with Conservation agriculture. Factors influencing the adoption of No-tillage, widely studied in the literature, concern the characteristics of the natural environment, the structural features of the holdings (i.e. size) and also the presence of knowledge spillovers that are largely the result of spatial networks between farmers and other stakeholders.Elaborations have been first of all aimed at distinguishing the two types of modalities of adoption and subsequently at verifying the influence of the factors mentioned above, in particular through the Local Moran Index. In summary, the work describes how the diffusion of No-tillage practices can be partly ascribed to a cost saving-oriented incremental innovation process in the framework of a conventional paradigm of agriculture that mainly pertain to large size holdings. However, there is a significant number of farms where the adoption of Notillage practices demonstrates the decision to try a more comprehensive reorganization of the way of doing agriculture, similar to the paradigm of Conservation agriculture, and in which the cognitive and relational aspects related to the aforementioned networks seem to be very important. Spatial analysis has allowed to depict two models of adaptation to the paradigm of Conservation agriculture: one is mainly concentrated in the rural areas of the centralnorthern Apennines, and another is located mainly in two regions of southern Italy (Puglia and Sicily).

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The Spatial Patterns of Dairy Farming In Molise

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

Information and Communication Infrastructures and New Business Models in Rural Areas: The Case of Molise Region in Italy

The “Eco-Effectiveness” of Agritourism Dynamics in Italy and Spain: A Tool for Evaluating Regional Sustainability

The spread of no-till in conservation agriculture systems in Italy: indications for rural development policy-making

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