Open AccessEconomic and political aspects of food and crop quality productions
Author(s) -
Giacomo Büchi,
Teresina Mancuso
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
italian journal of agronomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.509
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2039-6805
pISSN - 1125-4718
DOI - 10.4081/ija.2008.1s.103
Subject(s) - certification , politics , quality (philosophy) , geographical indication , production (economics) , crop , agricultural economics , business , geography , agricultural science , political science , economics , regional science , forestry , environmental science , philosophy , epistemology , law , macroeconomics
In this paper will be analyzed – at international, european and national level – the framework of a protection system of geographical indication (Denomination of Protected Origin and Protected Geographical Indication as defined in the EU Regulations, “certified production” in the follow), to highlight the potentials and the limits of their expansion on the world markets. The economy of italian certified agro-food productions and their political issues, will be also investigated