Agricultural risk and its insurance in Italy

The paper focuses on some problems of Agricultural Risk management in Italy (insurance coverages cost and poor diffusion of policies) proposing some possible ways of intervention such as introduction of forms of ATR (Alternative risk transfer), as complementary measure to insurance, and other instruments ordered to improve the number of policies. Contents: 1.Premise; 2.The Italian normative system of funding and subsiding in case of Natural Catastrophes affecting Agricultural Enterprises; 3. The last Italian agricultural insurance plan; 4. Some present criticisms; 5- Conclusions