This online lecture, delivered by Professor Francesco Di Iacovo (Università di Pisa), is part of the Opening Plenary Session of the Circle U. Climate Day – Solutions for Climate Change in Inland and Vulnerable Areas, organised by the University of Pisa at the Certosa di Calci on April 22.
Working on ongoing Italian examples, the lecture will focus on the main challenges rural areas are facing in front of the climate change and moreover on the growing emerging mismatches that a socio-economic model - mainly based on scale economy, intensification and individual entrepreneurial behaviour - generates in terms of risks for food stability and nutrition security, natural resource management, abandonment and ageing in main rural inner areas. Building on this, and still elaborating from some ongoing cases, the possibile development pathways toward more sustainable solutions will be open to the discussion.
Francesco Di Iacovo
Francesco Di Iacovo is a Full Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Pisa, where he teaches rural development. His research focuses on social innovation, sustainability transitions and transition management in rural areas, the promotion of nature-based solutions for local development, and the innovative valorisation of multifunctional agriculture.
He primarily adopts action research methods, working in close collaboration with local actors and networks. In his free time, he manages around five hectares of land, including woodland and olive groves, as well as a family garden.
