The 29th workshop is organized in collaboration with CREA-PB (research centre in Policies and Bioeconomy of the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics).

Topics

The Green Deal, the Farm to Fork strategy and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have become more ambitious on environmental and climate objectives. There is increasing need for monitoring not only the economic performance, but also the environmental and social performance of farming. The European Union has broadened the Farm Accountancy Data Network into the Farm Sustainability Network. Member states will implement these changes in the coming year(s).

At the same time the farming sector is changing due to an increasing scale of production, an increasing complexity of farm holdings and new opportunities of digitalization.

Topics of special interest this year are:

• Innovative approaches to collect environmental and social variables
• Changes in methods and ICT systems to collect and process sustainability data
• Impact of digitalization on accounting and sustainability monitoring
• Analyses and evaluations on the sustainability performance of farms

Furthermore, contributions are welcome on topics like:

• Policy evaluations and research based on farm level data
• Economic analysis of farm performance
• New trends in data dissemination methods (internet sites, dashboards, etc.)
• Farm accounting and data collection methods
• Methods of Sampling and weighting and typology of farms

Montegrotto, Italy

The 29th Pacioli workshop will be organized in Montegrotto, a thermal area near Padua, in the landscapes of the Euganean Hills Natural Park. This is one of the greatest thermal areas in Europe, where water flows from the springs at a very high temperature (80°C) and then cooled to an ideal temperature of 30-35°C.

80% of Euganean Hills is covered by cultivated land. The Park has been shaped by human activities over the millennia: vineyards were already cultivated during the Iron Age, olive trees during the Roman period. The “Strade dei Vini” and the presence of agritourisms promote the traditional local production for a balanced development of the local economy. The Venetian villas and their beautiful gardens witness the importance of the cultural heritage in this area.

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