Agricoltura, ambiente ed economia nelle carte di Michele De Benedictis

The archive of Michele De Benedictis, professor of agricultural economics and policy and member of numerous national and international associations on agricultural policies, preserves numerous traces of his research and study work on various issues related to the development of agriculture as a tool for economic well-being, but also as a means for maintaining and developing a balanced ecosystem. The intervention proposed here aims to analyse De Benedictis' papers on some research and projects that link together some of the fundamental themes of Debenedict's research, namely the "technological dualism" of Italian agriculture, the regional effects of agricultural policy of the European Community and, finally, the phenomenon of family businesses and part-time in agriculture. All these studies also conducted in the field, as happens for example with the FAO Syria project, have left deep traces in the archive of an articulated and complex personality of scholar like that of Michele De Benedictis, allowing, a few years after the professor's death, to outline a profile of a researcher who has explored all the economic areas of agricultural policies