Pastoral systems changing from conventional to social agriculture in Mediterranean Italy
Pastoral system is the combination of resources and techniques aimed to optimize sustainable productivity over a long term (Pardini,2007).The variety of resources used in the Italian Mediterranean pastoral systems is very big ( Talamucci and Pardini,1999),nonetheless there is land abandonment.In the decade 1990‐2000 many farms were closed (2,393,090 in 2000 in comparison to 3,023,244 in 1990,decrease‐14.2％ ),this trend affected also the number of farms with livestock (1,239, 631 in 2000,which is a reduction of 34,8％ in comparison to 1990).Many farmers have seek new incomes by the development of services offered to farm tourists ( agro‐tourism ) and local people ( educational farms,health farms) and passed from conventional forage‐pastoral systems ( that include pasture,forage crops and extra‐forage resources) to integrated systems ( the above resources integrated with new economic sectors).A research has been done to investigate the diffusion of these farms in the Mediterranean Italy.
agro‐tourism forage species integrated pastoral systems
Pardini A. Pratesi V. Baronti F.
University of Florence-Piazzale Cascine,18-50144 Firenze (I) andrea
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）