FARM & IP Law

The research objective is to investigate the regulation of the agricultural enterprise under multiple perspectives, encompassing various legal areas: civil, labour, business, bankruptcy, tax and criminal. The agricultural enterprise in fact is facing a number of challenges related to sustainability and technological development:

a) establishing and regulating modern organisational models, such as innovative start-ups;

b) setting up business contracts that may determine the success on the market of agricultural enterprise;

c) inclusion of contract clauses of sustainability in the food chain and potential “green” certification of those contracts according to sustainability clauses;

d) issues related to opportunities and risks of protection of intellectual property, with a specific focus on innovation;

e) farm management also in reference to business crisis;

f) regulation of food fraud;

g) challenges related to the multiplication and overlapping of punitive measures in the agri-food sector and the liability related to the topic of food security, in terms of food-related offences and “new” environmental crimes;

h) establishing the features of an agri-food business with regards to the integration of the “labour factor”, often accomplished through subcontracting chains that are not implemented in a regular manner, and that actually lower the level of protection and guarantees of the involved workers;

i) creation of networks of businesses, co-employment and co-hiring in agriculture;

l) issues related to unemployment and retraining of agricultural workers;

m) redevelopment of rural areas to revitalise proximity agriculture as a link in the chain of sustainability.

COORDINATOR: Tommaso Bonamini

MEMBERS: Amabanelli Alessandra, Arfani Andrea, Basini Giovanni Francesco, Bellini Marta, Bianchi Luca, Bonamini Tommaso, Boselli Matteo, Bresciani Ilaria, Cioni Riccardo, Coppola Cristina, Galli Cesare, Ghidoni Luca, Gragnoli Enrico, Greco Maria Giovanna, Gualerzi Alice, Henzel Mario, Manstretta Federico, Mileo Marica, Moglia Francesco Maria, Moncalvo Fabrizio, Montanari Massimo, Natale Andrea, Palladini Susanna, Pedrabissi Stefania, Peduto Stefania, Piccolo Michele, Pisciuneri Chiara, Rainone Angelo, Rao Riccardo, Spotti Federico, Trolli Fabio, Trovato Antonella, Vasta Stefania

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