ABSTRACT
Garfagnana is an area high up in the hills and mountains of Central Italy, sandwiched between three of the richest regions of Italy–Tuscany, Liguria and Emilia Romagna. The route of the graduate’s return is located in the area of substantial indifference to CAP measures, both old and new. A marginal area like Garfagnana should, inevitably, receive more assistance than before from EEC intervention. The demarcation line between the areas of tradition and change into which the plane thus individuated can be divided, runs along a line bisecting the second and the fourth quadrants. Obviously, tradition should not be assigned an exclusively negative value, but merely a significance of fewer and slower changes with respect to the customs of the area; so it may contain as much of the positive as the negative. Traditional production systems were continued, hence the choice to limit input at the expense of lower output.
