Il sistema agro-alimentare dell'Emilia-Romagna. Rapporto 2017

[Autom. eng. transl.] The 2017 Report on the Emilia-Romagna agri-food system represents an important contribution to the knowledge of a fundamental sector of the regional economy, a useful tool for operators and a guide for local government policies. The Report opens with two chapters describing, on the one hand, the progress of the world's food and agricultural markets, and on the other, the EU and national policies for the agri-food sector, with the second year of application of the CAP 2014 -2020. The main economic changes of the regional agri-food system occupy the central part of the Report, with four chapters dedicated to agriculture: production and profitability of the sector, crop production, livestock production, credit and use of productive factors. These chapters examine the trends that characterized regional agriculture during 2017. Subsequently the other relevant aspects of the regional agro-food system are tackled starting from the food industry, with cyclical dynamics and some structural insights on employment; the chapter on foreign trade shows the weight of the region in exports and imports of agricultural and food products, while that on food distribution focuses on the strategies of distribution companies; the chapter on food consumption highlights the evolution and composition of food spending at national and regional level. The volume presents, in the following chapters, the description of interventions and policies at regional level and of the Rural Development Program 2014-2020. The Report concludes with two chapters devoted respectively to the activities of the regional chamber system in favor of the agri-food supply chain and to the internationalization projects of the Emilia-Romagna Region for the enhancement of agri-food products.