Rossella Pampanini

Natura economica delle organizzazioni dei produttori agricoli: un’interpretazione alla luce della teoria neoistituzionale

The paper addresses the problem of economic nature of producers organization. It takes into account recent enhancements of the institutional environment, crucially influencing the agri-Food sector, and aims at examining their consequences at microeconomic level. Several issues are related to the economic nature of the producers’ organization: the choice of type of relationship between a farmer and the organization; the approach in managing the organization, including the specification of a marketing strategy and conflicts solving. The general contractual agreement between farmers and their organization is thought of as a institutional innovation contributing to the organizational variety of the Agri-Food sector. The attributes of the farmers organization as governance structure are examined and the economics of the organization is drawn from of Transaction Cost Economics. The main results of the study is that the producers organization can be identified in terms of hybrid structure of governance. The study also propose an operational approach to the design of agricultural organization.

A Quantitative Analysis of Olive Oil Market in the North-West Italy

The problem of the competitiveness of the agricultural products has always animated the analyses of the agricultural economists. At the present, them competitive context is influenced from two phenomena of bottom: the progressive increase of the markets segmentation process, fed from the productive differentiation of the enterprises, and the crescent communicative weight of the products in the shelves of the GDO, exalted from the policies of merchandising feeding. Such phenomena feed complex competitive interdependences between the various trade categories and between the various brands inside of the category. The extravirgin olive oil, in virtue of the maturity level of its market, shows several peculiarities: it is introduced as a system burdened from secular problems of structural type that need of able participations to give back to force and competitiveness, in this moment that the consumption, is assumed, could increase. In so far as, a provisional support on which is the levers in order to render own market the best regarding the competitors, finds a remarkable interest, especially with the parallel use of a recent source of information (scanner date).

Il mercato del tartufo fresco in Italia tra performance commerciali e vincoli allo sviluppo: il contributo delle regioni italiane

The aim of this paper is to provide some elements of synthesis useful for economic analysis of the general field of fresh truffle in Italy. In particular, this work focuses on aspects of production and trade (import/export) sector, analyzing, through specific indicators of performance, the strengths and weaknesses that the sector has to date, and, in this case, the importance in the same role that is played from the local economy of the different favorable regions compared to other Italian regions. The basic assumption is that there are significant potential to increase the local sales performance in response to increased worldwide demand.

Associazioni di produttori e organizzazioni interprofessionali in agricoltura : le prospettive alla luce del Dlgs n. 228/2001

CAP Reform, application of food safety discipline by agricultural producers and EU enlargement, make the future of European agriculture more uncertain. European producers have also to consider the new opportunities arising from the higher exposure of EU agriculture to world market. Farm income will depend more and more from entrepreneurship of each producer than from European subsidies. The ability of producers will have to provide for an efficient organization of their farm in order to be competitive on international markets and overtake the disadvantages of fragmentation of supply. National legislator have shown their willingness to renew and deeply revise economic farmers’ associations and intersectoral relations among economic agents, upstream and downstream of the production process. This paper describes in detail the innovations introduced with the new discipline on producers associations and, from an economic analysis perspective, the study will focus on the issues of the choice of strategies and transaction costs of the different organization’s solutions.