Agricoltura e sostenibilità ambientale nell’UE: un’analisi dello stato dell’arte attraverso la creazione di indici di performance

The growing interest for the environmental sustainability of the agricultural activities has highlighted the importance to have survey instruments which consent to characterize the different and complex agro-environmental systems with analysis able to allow temporal and spatial comparisons and also to transfer information to the policy makers. The scope of the work is to analyze the impact of farming activities on some of the specific issues that significantly impact on the global sustainability to make a comparative analysis among the European Union countries. To this end, aggregate index have been developed, obtained by principal components analysis of specific indicators (agricultural and environmental). This technique allowed to extract the factorial structure of synthesis in which different countries are positioned.