Agricultural and resource economics

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Claudia Bazzani: Temporary Assistant Professor
Diego Begalli: Full Professor
Roberta Capitello: Full Professor
Davide Nicola Vincenzo Gaeta: Associate Professor

Elena Claire Ricci: Temporary Assistant Professor
Riccardo Scarpa: Associate Professor
Katia Laura Sidali: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Agribusiness	Davide Nicola Vincenzo Gaeta Katia Laura Sidali	Management and organization of agricultural firms; agricultural and wine organisations; agricultural business networks, in the wine sector Credits, Rural Development programme; business strategies in the wine sector; networking between firms; access to credit for farmers and wine firms; analysis of supply and demand for wine sector.
Agricoltural and resource economics	Riccardo Scarpa	Agricultural water usage and its economics, rural landscape formation and multifunctionality of agricultural practices, sustainable production techniques, best practice adoption, certification processes and depopulation of rural areas, periurban agriculture and public production of amenities and ecosystem services, livestock economics in developing countries.
Agricultural and wine economics	Davide Nicola Vincenzo Gaeta	Governments’ policies that support agriculture; Common Agricultural Policy, Common Market Organisation (CMO) for agri-food products; Instruments for supply control tools with focus on wine; Quality food programme; wine trade (bottled and bulk); Wine markets: Export and Import Trend; Barriers among countries; Tariff and Non-tariff measures; European wine policies and their impacts on the global wine trade. Wine critics, judges and scores: collective actions.
Agricultural and wine policy	Davide Nicola Vincenzo Gaeta	European policies on agro-food products; quality designation of origins, geographical indications (PDO and PGI); wine quality standards; European wine polices, European and Italian implementations, support level, budgets, instruments, allocations of resources; support indications (Total support Estimates TSE, Producer support estimates, PSE; National supports programme); market price support, budgetary payments; instruments for development the competitiveness of EU wine sector. Lobbying activities, pressure groups; Promotion in thirds countries, strategies and implementations; investments and innovations in enterprises; analysis of efficiency of expenditures.
Food policy	Elena Claire Ricci Riccardo Scarpa	Food labeling policy, nutritional information and food choice, obesity prevention and diet balancedness, alcoholic beverage and youth, lifestyle habit formation and diet, econometric models of food choice.
Agri-food systems	Claudia Bazzani Diego Begalli Roberta Capitello	Market analysis of food products; traditional and typical products in the food and wine industries; risk perception in the wine industry; business strategies in agricultural cooperatives; sustainability in food and wine supply chains; impact of climate change on wine business performance; econometric analysis of food and wine trade; territorial clusters in food and wine sector; food and wine supply chains analysis, agri-food and wine products demand, food and wine markets analysis, case study analysis of agri-food and wine businesses, cost and price analyses in agri-food and wine industries.