Le aree agricole nei parchi periurbani italiani: verso nuovi modelli?/The agricultural areas in the peri-urban Italian parks: toward new models?

The projects of valorisation of the agriculture in the Italian metropolitan areas have had above all origin inside the initiatives of the peri-urbain parks. The debate on the role of the protected peri-urban and metropolitan areas has received vigour on the occasion of the second national Conference on the Protected Areas (Turin, October 2002), in which has been confirmed the idea that the peri-urban agricultural areas can have the task of approach between the rural and the urban culture, through new models of management. The Italian territory presents some experiences of plans already realized or in progress: among these some are meaningful for the expressed idea of peri-urban agriculture, for the actions in progress and for the role dressed again by the actors of these territories, stakeholders, citizens and farmers.