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Davide Viaggi

Full Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGRI-01/A Agricultural and Food Economics, and Rural Appraisal

Curriculum vitae

Davide Viaggi was born in Bologna, 14 october 1967. Bachelor degree in agricultural science in 1991, was beneficiary of scholarships at the University of Bologna, Aberdeen, Oxford. In 1996 obtained the European Master in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at ENSAR, Rennes (France) and got the PhD in 1997, at the University of Siena.

From 2001 to 2008 was researcher in Agricultural economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering of the University of Bologna, Faculty of Agriculture. He is currently Associate professor at the Department of Agriculture and Food Science.

Participates in research projects funded by the European Union, the Ministry of University and Research, Region Emilia-Romagna. Among them, he coordinated 3 EU projects (CAP-IRE and CLAIM of FP7, PROVIDE in H2020) and participated in about other 20.

The main research themes concern the common agricultural policy (CAP), the bioeconomy, the economics and management of water resources and the evaluation of agri-environmental policies. Main economic tools used include linear programming, principal-agent models, multicriteria analysis, cost-benefits analysis and externality accounting and evaluation.

The results have been presented in about 300 publications.

Participated in the organisation of several national and international conferences and is referee for some of the main national and internaitonal journals of the concerned scientific sectors.

Since 2001 teaches courses in Economics, Rural appraisal, Real estate appraisal, Economics, Environmental economics, Policy evaluation, firm management at the Universities of Bologna and Ferrara.

Is responsible of Socrates/Erasmus exchanges with the Universities of Iasi, Girona, Gent, Rennes, Valladolid.

He is currently president of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics and is member of the main national and international associations in the sector of agricultural economics and environmental economics.