Maria Assunta D’Oronzio is a senior researcher at CREA-PB (ex INEA). She works in the National Rural Development Network since 2007. She gives a methodological support to public authorities in the Rural development sector, especially related to agricultural and fisheries supply chain, inner area, innovation, local development issues. She’s a project manager of some research regional project “Collection of a seed bank of native sheep and goat breeds and strategies for their maintenance and increased numbers – COLAUTOC” and “SANSINUTRIFEED – Study of a model for evaluating the economic sustainability of the use of innovative feeds in cattle and sheep farming” for CREA of Potenza. She is involved in i2connect H2020 funded project that supports interactive innovation processes in European agriculture and forestry and in RAMONES-PL for Rural Advisory Monitoring and Evaluation System linked to Precision Learning. She has participated in a lot of national and international conferences and workshops. She is co-author of national and international scientific papers published in Proceedings of Conferences, books and journals.
Agronomist, PhD in Rural Engineering. Holder of research grants and contracts, he has worked at the University of Basilicata and the University of Bari. Her scientific activity (research and teaching) has concerned the disciplines related to SSD AGR/10 “Rural Construction and Agroforestry Land”, investigating various topics, including Engineering characteristics of new and recycled plastic materials; gis for the management of agricultural plastic waste flows; Land planning and Rural Construction (productive and/or valuable); Agroindustrial Construction and its environmental impact and Farmers’ Safety. She has participated in national and international study days, seminars, conferences and workshops and she is co-author of over 60 scientific papers published in national and international conference proceedings and journals, books and popular magazines.
The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization and restructuring of agricultural, agri-food and forestry farms by rural development policies, which address respect for sustainability and to reduction of renewable and non-renewable resources, preserving quality and the link with the territory.
Some Lucanian agricultural entrepreneurs, interested in experimenting with innovative and sustainable agriculture, has intensified relations with the local scientific world, the advisors, training institutions and with small and medium-sized agro-industrial enterprises, setting up clusters. Then European Partnerships for Innovation have formed inside them.
This paper analyses the eleven Operational Groups of the Lucanian European Partnerships which represent the incubators for the digitalization of agri-food 4.0. From the analysis it emerged that the maximum expression of digitization in Basilicata is Precision Farming, as evidenced by the establishment of a specific operating group, AgrotechBasilicata. However, the other Lucanian OGs can also be classified as digital because they are interested by information collection systems, software and data analysis, as well as robotics and automation.
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