ABSTRACT
This chapter expounds the application of a mathematical programming model to evaluate the implementation of adjustment measures in the agricultural sector of Italy’s irrigated Lombardy lowland, in the presence of new environmental pressures resulting from an EU move towards environmental protection and the implementation of the change in market dynamics brought on by the implementation of the Fischler reform. The elimination of direct payments as result of the latter is in fact linked to the serious upheaval in the European agricultural products market during recent years.
