What Farm Features determine the Granting of RDP Funding? The Case of Measures 121 and 214 in Tuscany

This paper employs a logistic model to analyse the farm, entrepreneurial and/or territorial components that have the greatest influence in determining access to RDP funding. The goal of this paper is to identify, for each measure considered (121 – Modernisation of agricultural holdings, and 214 – Agri-environment payments), a successful farm model characterised by the greatest probability of obtaining subsidies. The farm profiles that emerge from these observations reflect an elevated entrepreneurial vitality and investment capability, and constitute the benchmark that the public decision-maker must take into account in evaluating the coherence between the established development goals and the effective distribution of funds. Furthermore, from the elaborations it will be possible to define guidelines for regional policies aimed at promoting the development of the realities with the greatest probability of success.