Le variazioni del territorio rurale e le diverse tipologie di imprenditore agricolo: un caso di studio

The increasing attention of the Agricultural Poli- cies on the issues regarding rural development must take into account the elements which influence the farmers’ behaviour. In fact, it is thanks to the farmers’ choices that there will be direct effects on the territorial, social, environmental and economic ru- ral development. This paper examines a marginal area of Tusca- ny, the Mugello, and for that territory several farmers’ typologies have been detected. These farmers’ typologies are differentiated depending on the followed objective function, in order to as- sess the most probable future landscape management. Together with this economic analysis, based on a farmers’ typologies math- ematical programming approach, the paper implements also a georeferred analysis (SIT), thanks to which it has been possible to create forecasted scenarios, using a raster cartography.