Vol. 78 No. 1 (2023)
Review Articles

New frontiers in the teaching of the agricultural enterprise: elements for a debate

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  • Biancamaria Torquati,
  • Benedetto Rocchi,
  • Danilo Gambelli,
  • Silvio Franco,
  • Angelo Belliggiano,
  • Alessio Cavicchi,
  • Paola Gatto,
  • Maria Teresa Gorgitano
Biancamaria Torquati
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Benedetto Rocchi
Dipartimento di Scienze per l’Economia e l’Impresa, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Danilo Gambelli
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Silvio Franco
Dipartimento di Economia, Ingegneria, Società e Impresa, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Angelo Belliggiano
Dipartimento Agricoltura, Ambiente e Alimenti, Università degli Studi del Molise
Alessio Cavicchi
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali, Università degli Studi di Pisa
Paola Gatto
Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università degli Studi di Padova
Maria Teresa Gorgitano
Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rea-14377

Published 2023-09-26

Keywords

  • agricultural and natural resource economics,
  • environmental and ecological economics,
  • rural regeneration,
  • agricultural value chains,
  • farm decision tools,
  • economic teaching,
  • internationalization of academic degrees
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Torquati, B., Rocchi, B., Gambelli, D., Franco, S., Belliggiano, A., Cavicchi, A., Gatto, P., & Gorgitano, M. T. (2023). New frontiers in the teaching of the agricultural enterprise: elements for a debate. Italian Review of Agricultural Economics (REA), 78(1), 67–86. https://doi.org/10.36253/rea-14377

Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Teresa Gorgitano, Biancamaria Torquati, Benedetto Rocchi, Danilo Gambelli, Silvio Franco, Angelo Belliggiano, Alessio Cavicchi, Paola Gatto

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Abstract

The ecological transition assigns a strategic role to farms in achieving the sustainable transformation of agricultural systems. Therefore, teaching of agricultural economics must make these demands of civil society its own and rethink topics, decision-making tools, and teaching methods fostering the transition to sustainable agriculture. The main aim of this article is discussing the relevant teaching topics and the useful decision support tools useful for concrete progress in agricultural economics in the cycles of university studies. Five topics are recognized as priorities for the rethinking of courses on agricultural economics: agricultural systems, equitable distribution of value, quality and value of agri-food products, territorial regeneration, protection and regeneration of natural resources. The paper focuses also on the nature and role of decision support tools in university teaching. Finally, some considerations are extended to the opportunities offered by formal teaching in the context of informal training such as university-enterprise cooperation and in the context of the internationalization of degree courses supported by the Erasmus+ program. Further analysis is needed to evaluate how to rethink both single training courses, and global study programs in agricultural economics.

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