Paesaggi rurali, Politica Agricola Comunitaria e pandemia. Opportunita da cogliere

Abstract

The pandemic has highlighted the weakness of the environmental system and highly specialized agriculture with low biodiversity, where we live today. The traditional agricultural landscapes, guard¬ians of historic signs and practices, are the result of slow processes of adaptation to nature and are a source of community resilience and high biodiversity: They can therefore offer a response to the climate and pandemic crisis we are experiencing. Some Italian experts with different backgrounds and experiences provide ideas for the new agricultural common policy: Implement agroecology in the plain, maintain animal husbandry, build a competitive production and tourism, welcome new citizens and aware tourists in the mountains, improve the recognition and remuneration of farmers as landscape maintainers and providers of food and social services for the cities. Finally, the authors summarized five suggestions for the future CAP that offer a new vision for our post-pandemic life, through the enhancement of agricultural landscapes that are bearers of Italian history and identity.