Il mercato del latte. Rapporto 2012

[Autom. eng. transl.] The Report on the milk market, edited by the Observatory on the market of livestock products, in collaboration with the AIA (Italian Breeders Association), which reaches its nineteenth edition, is proposed as a tool for knowledge of the dairy sector in support of those who, for various reasons - be they public institutions, professional organizations, associative structures, business operators or scholars - are called to contribute to the functioning of the dairy sector. The main effort was, therefore, to combine the completeness, timeliness and relevance of the information provided and the analyzes performed, with the synthesis necessary to make it an effective tool. The multi-year and qualified tradition that the Observatory can boast in the sector analysis constitutes the guarantee of a marked scientific rigor associated with concreteness and adherence to the problems of one of the most complex and articulated sectors of the national agri-food sector. The layout of the study provides that it is not limited to a simple list of market facts; it represents, rather, an analysis of the entire production chain, able to provide interpretative keys which, starting from the behavior of individual operators, consider the effects of the international scenario and of the sector's Community policies, to arrive at a synthesis accomplishment of the functioning of the national "milk system".