Study site description: Rendina, Italy

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Land use management and degradation processes
5. Socio-economic description
   1. Population density and structure
   2. Level of education
   3. Level and sources of income
   4. Impacts of land degradation on the livelihood of people
   5. Major challenges of existing land resource management
   6. Major drivers of main land degradation processes
6. Institutional and political setting
7. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups (at all levels)
8. Past and on-going projects
9. References
10. Annex: Soil characteristics of the Rendina Basin

Level and sources of income

The income of the main stakeholder groups is from the resource base and from off-farm labor or from family members in towns or abroad (big FIAT factory and other related activities very close to the Rendina Basin).

Major livelihood supports available:

• wine (higher source of income but restricted to a limited number of local farmer (2000 ha for D.O.C.G Aglianico);
• cash crops (cereals also sustained by CAP subsidies);
• olive: traditional cultivation for oil in a large portion of the area;
• fodder: mainly in rotation with cereals;
• firewood: limited importance;
• chestnuts (developed woodland cultivation for D.O.P. EU recognized production);
• agritourism (limited in very few farms and not so well developed as in other regions of Central- Northern Italy).