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Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lo Zoppo Marianna, Saputo Aristea

The Entire Supply Chain Faces the test of Innovation

Innovation in agribusiness represents an indispensible step for the construction of a sustainable future, and is more or less explicitly linked to achieving most of the SDG identified by the UN in 2015.#Forces of change such as technological advancement, the climate crisis, the scarcity of resources, and the growth of global population will influence the trajectories of development in coming years, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lo Zoppo Marianna, Fiorillo Vitaliano

The Growth of Vertical Farming Between Reality and Promises

Vertical farming is an innovative solution to grow plants, stacked in multiple layers, in closed environments in which light, nutrients, and temperature are constantly controlled.#The main advantages of vertical farming are linked to the efficient use of nutrients, the possibility to produce all year round even in hostile environments, as well as water savings, the possibility to eliminate herbicides ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Mastrandrea Francesco

The New Rules on European and Italian Agricultural Policy

Born in the 1950s with the idea of increasing agricultural productivity and protecting producers and consumers, the structure of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was recently rethought from the perspective of social, environmental, and economic sustainability, with the intent of modifying the entire European and extra-European food system from a green standpoint.#Among the most ambitious points ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/2) Borgonovi Elio, Ripa Di Meana Francesco

How the Supply Chain Has Changed

The enormous availability of data allows for processing information of various types relating to millions of patients. We can thus speak of a structural transformation in the supply chain for patients and healthcare systems in which the roles of various public and private entities can and must be redefined, principally in the areas of basic research and services.

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/2) Iacomino Clelia, Pianorsi Mattia, Saputo Aristea

All the Value of the Space Economy

The space economy is expanding enormously, with the participation of a growing number of actors, and a current value of about 400 billion dollars. It is destined to become a “trillion dollar economy” within a few years.

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Monaci Massimiliano

It’s Decision Time on Migrants

The increase of the migrant population in Italy directly affects businesses for three reasons: the demographic aging of our country demands a generational change in many key occupations in our economy; participation in the labor market represents the most efficient vehicle for social integration; and making the most of the value of migrant human resources guarantees advantages for competitiveness ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Saporito Raffaella, Rota Silvia, Trinchero Elisabetta

Women and the PA: A Case of Half Success

Despite being the majority in the public administration (58 percent of the total employees in OECD countries), women see less career advancement than men. While on the one hand, they are gradually occupying typically male public jobs (no longer only teachers and nurses, but also judges, prefects, and city clerks), on the other, they are still underrepresented in management roles. A career in the public ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Casarico Alessandra

Gender Pay Gap: The Role of Businesses

Over the course of the last 30 years, gender pay differences in the private sector in Italy have fallen considerably, although they remain very noticeable among high incomes: the difference between men and women is 30 percent, in favor of the former. In 2021, the birth of a child still represents one of the main factors that contributes to accentuating the gender employment and pay gaps. In Italy, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Profeta Paola

Gender Parity: the Necessary Investment

To ensure that the (few) steps forward taken in recent years to promote gender parity don't disappear in the face of the pandemic emergency, public policies are necessary that accelerate progress towards gender parity, supporting women's participation in the labor market and their presence in decision-making positions. Broader assistance for childcare and the extension of paternity leave can improve ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Pulcher Simone

What Unions Can and Must Do

Still today, many people linked to the LGBT community must deal with a series of formal types of discrimination (regarding the policies and decisions a company makes) and informal types as well (regarding the climate at the company and interpersonal dynamics) that make work experiences problematic.#The approach taken by labor unions to diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity within companies ...