Learning objectives

The course is included in the learning area on Law, new technologies, and sustainability. The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge on the main features that characterize agri-food law, including the basics of agricultural law, the production and distribution chains in agri-food law, the legal outlines of environmental sustainability related to agricultural production, and the rational exploitation of the land, the regulatory threshold of food, including in the wine sector, market rules and consumer interests, the protection of the quality of agri-food products and the corresponding labeling rules.
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the ability to formulate, autonomously and critically, complex opinions and argumentations on the main topics of the course.
At the end of the course, the student will also have acquired the ability to face and solve practical problems typical of the professional context in which he/she will operate, thus orienting his/her competence to the goal of contractual compliance and to the prevention of the judicial conflict. He/she will be able to verify the practical and applicative consequences of the theoretical and regulatory framework and to set, in written and oral form (and also through group working, written exercises and the method of Problem Based Solving - PBS), the solution of concrete issues, using the appropriate and specific disciplinary vocabulary, adopting the correct lines of reasoning and argumentation, and formulating autonomous judgments. The teaching method used is functional to the continuous learning and updating of acquired knowledge.