Territorial Sustainability and Multifunctional Agriculture: A Case Study

The multifunctional agriculture can be defined as the mechanism of the integrated development and a tool for giving value to the territorial potential in the agricultural activities, which are determinant for the rural sustainability. Under the light of these considerations and given the next 2014-2020 programming periods, it becomes interesting thinking on the effect of the multifunctional agriculture in the realization of sustainable territorial development. Taking into account all of this, the present work, after having underlined short reflections on the relationships between the concept of sustainability and multifunctionality, proposes a case study on a territorial rural system finalized to evaluating the coherence between the policies’ orientation of RDP and the evolution paths of the firms.