Considering strictly the environmental aspect, territory and landscape protection and conservation can be considered the essential condition of agricultural activity that has always given human beings the opportunity to shape and change the landscape, thus leading to negative but also positive consequences for the territory.
Environmental sustainability represents one of the rural development policies' current and future challenges.
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Territory and landscape protection and conservation is mostly essential in less-favoured areas in danger of depopulation more than others areas. The rural development policy objective is that of reducing the emigration from rural areas and the abandonment of land.
Waste management, included recycling and recovery activities, is essential for reducing human activities impacts and for a sustainable resources management. The rural development policy finances the use of bio-waste systems for energetic purposes, compatible with agricultural activity sustainable management.
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