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XXXVIII CICLO | Sturla Alberto

STURLA ALBERTO

PhD student in Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods – Curriculum Economia circolare, collaborativa e sostenibile

Cicle: XXXVIII

Tutor accademico: Prof. Giulio Guarini
Tutor di ricerca: Dott.ssa Laura Viganò

Thesis title: Valutazione del possibile contributo dei biodistretti allo sviluppo locale e dell’azienda agricola

email: alberto.sturla@crea.gov.it

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

  • Personal profile and research interests

    I’ve been working as a researcher at Centre for Policies and Bioeconomy of the National Council for Agricultural research and economics for the last twenty years.
    My main research interests deal with territorial approaches to organic farming and the socio-institutional arrangements that allow them to rise and thrive. I’m mostly interested in exploring their role in fostering local transition according to agroecological approach. Moreover, working at CREA PB has given me the opportunity to measure myself with Working Package leadership in international projects as well as to become acquainted with many agriculture-related issues: land market, employment of non-EU workers, farm accountancy and many others.

  • PhD project

    Biodistricts are homogeneous territories in which the different actors enter into an agreement for the sustainable management of resources, focusing on organic farming and its supply chains, up to consumption. Supported by consumers’ renewed awareness of the sustainability of the agri-food system, as well as by the attention that policies have always paid to organic farming and cooperation initiatives in food supply chains, biodistrict have gained growing considerations among stakeholders and policy makers, at the point that they have been acknowledged by the national legislation on organic farming. Times are therefore mature to check whether and how they impact local farmers and territories, so to draw recommendations for more effective policies to support their action.
    The PhD project I’m working on has a twofold facet. On one hand, by adopting a development economics perspective, it aims at contributing to the debate on Biodistricts and their nature of subject for local development by relying on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, so to explore their influence on farmers’ agency. On the other, in the theoretical framework provided by Kaldor’s productivity function and adopting the farm as observational unit, it explores possible quantitative relationships between being in a biodistrict, other micro-economic variables and their possible interactions an outcomes connected to productivity and energetic efficiency.

  • Publications

    G. Dara Guccione, L. Viganò, A. Sturla, A. Vaccaro, L. Colombo, T. Pirelli, & F. Varia, F. (2024). Insights into the Agroecological Transition: the case of two Italian Bio-districts. Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Italian Review of Agricultural Economics (REA), 79(1), 97–111. https://doi.org/10.36253/rea-14241;

    F. Carillo, R. Henke, A. Sturla (2023). An Assessment of the Effects of Food Districts on Sustainable Management of Land: The Case of Lombardia, Italy. Systems, 11(6), 283. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11060283;

    J. Millard, A. Sturla, Z. Smutná, B. Duží, M. Janssen, J. Vávra (2022): European food systems in a regional perspective: a comparative study of the effect of Covid-19 on households and city-region food systems. Frontiers in sustainable food systems 6-2002. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.844170;

    C. Mazzocchi, L. Orsi, C. Bergamelli, A. Sturla (2021):Bio-districts and the territory: evidence from a regression approach. Aestimum 79, pp. 5- 23.https://doi.org/10.36253/aestim-12163

    A. Belliggiano, A. Sturla, A., M. Vassallo, L. Viganò (2020): Neo-endogenous rural development in favor of organic farming: Two case studies from Italian fragile areas. European Countryside 12(1), 1- 29. DOI: 10.2478/euco-2020-0001

    A. Sturla, E Viganò, E., L. Viganò (2020): The organic districts in Italy. An interpretative hypothesis in the light of the common pool resources theory. Economia Agroalimentare 21 (2), 429 – 458. DOI: 10.3280/ECAG2019-002013