The projects of valorisation of the
agriculture in the Italian metropolitan
areas have had above all origin inside
the initiatives of the peri-urbain parks.
The debate on the role of the protected
peri-urban and metropolitan areas
has received vigour on the occasion of
the second national Conference on
the Protected Areas (Turin, October
2002), in which has been confirmed
the idea that the peri-urban agricultural
areas can have the task of
approach between the rural and the
urban culture, through new models of
management.
The Italian territory presents some
experiences of plans already realized
or in progress: among these some are
meaningful for the expressed idea of
peri-urban agriculture, for the actions
in progress and for the role dressed
again by the actors of these territories,
stakeholders, citizens and farmers
