Il sistema agro-alimentare della Lombardia. Rapporto 2018

[Autom. eng. transl.] The 2018 Report on the situation and prospects of the agro-food system in Lombardy constitutes an organic contribution to the knowledge of the characteristics of one of the most important regional systems in the European panorama. The aim of the Report, now in its sixteenth edition, is to provide indications to sector operators and an overall reference framework for public actors. The first part of the volume reports the analysis of the main events of the year and the prospects of the system at regional and international level. The second part is initially composed of a broad overview of the structural and economic characteristics of the system. Following are three chapters dedicated to the analysis of agricultural policies at Community, national and regional level, with a photograph of their current configuration and an examination of current trends. In the third part of the Report, the main components of the agro-food system are considered: retail distribution, food industry and agriculture, also including the analysis of foreign exchanges of the regional and national system. The fourth part is reserved for the analysis of production factors, and in particular for the use of labor, technical means, agricultural credit and the land market. The final part of the volume concerns the analysis of the most significant supply chains of plant and animal production in the region. The economic trends of agricultural production, processing, consumption and product prices are described for each of them.