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Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan

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Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South

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Rural heritage preservation policies can have an impact on social equity issues. In periurban agricultural areas of Milan, high costs of maintenance of the rural heritage brought the main public landowners (municipality and hospital) to implement new agreements and transfer those costs to their tenant farmers. Why some farmers had positive reactions, while others risked abandoning their land and activities? What elements allow or prevent the farmers to cope with these changes? A qualitative study was conducted to understand the different farmers’ strategies, analysing the dynamics of social justice integrated into the new agreements. The different reactions of the farmers depend on elements that involve both personal and contextual characteristics (family, social networks, attitudes) and the strategy adopted by the landowner (decision-making process and agreement conditions).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The preservation and enhancement of the whole landscape, ordinary and outstanding, rural and urban, in good and bad condition, is the fundament of the European Landscape Convention (2000), nowadays ratified by 38 of 47 member states of the Council of Europe.

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    World Rural Landscapes (WRL) is an initiative launched by the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ICOMOS-IFLA) to foster worldwide cooperation in the study, management and protection of rural landscapes. http://www.worldrurallandscapes.org/.

  3. 3.

    There are several examples in Italy of rural public properties: Ospedale Maggiore, ASP Golgi Redaelli, Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Stelline and Martinitt (Milano); Pia assistenza (Bergamo); Ospedale maggiore (Bologna).

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    Available at http://www.cittametropolitana.mi.it/parco_agricolo_sud_milano/territorio_e_pianificazione/piano_territoriale_di_coordinamento.html.

  5. 5.

    Milano Metropoli Rurale, based on the agreement “Accordo Quadro di Sviluppo Territoriale” (Agreement Framework for Territorial Development). Available at http://www.agricity.it/politiche-e-strategie-del-comune-di-milano/.

  6. 6.

    Ibidem.

  7. 7.

    Gross saleable product.

  8. 8.

    ISTAT, 6° censimento agricoltura 2010, www.istat.it.

  9. 9.

    Data available at http://www.cittametropolitana.mi.it/parco_agricolo_sud_milano/territorio_e_pianificazione/il_territorio_in_cifre.html.

  10. 10.

    With an average of 56 years of presence of the family in the farm. Five between 0 and 29 years; 4 between 30 and 59 years; 6 between 60 and 90 years; 4 over 90 years. The longest period registered was 127 years.

  11. 11.

    Source: ISTAT data elaborated by Federazione Nazionale della ProprietĂ  Fondiaria.

  12. 12.

    Today, 2910 ha within the municipal borders are dedicated to rural activities, among which 550 ha owned by the municipality; the farms are 62, among which 11 with rural activities (Casale 2016).

  13. 13.

    The costs incurred by the tenants of the Major Hospital for all the extra-ordinary maintenance interventions started since the contract renewal (60 new contracts in 10 months) is €1,875,966. Source: http://www.fondazionesviluppocagranda.it/.

  14. 14.

    The Major Hospital manages 8500 ha of agricultural land and 100 rural buildings within the province of Milan, Lodi and Pavia. It represents the 1% of total agricultural area in the region of Lombardy. Source: http://www.fondazionesviluppocagranda.it/.

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  1. ABC Department, Politecnico of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Paola Branduini

  2. UMR Innovation, French Institute for Agricultural Research Lab Innovation, Montpellier, France

    Coline Perrin & Brigitte Nougarèdes

  3. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Elena Colli

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Branduini, P., Perrin, C., Nougarèdes, B., Colli, E. (2020). Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan. In: Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17187-2_7

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