Economy of Globalization and Market Crisis: What Solution for the Agricultural Sector

Economic globalization has triggered a process of market innovation and communication, through direct and indirect effects, in the primary sector and particularly in the agribusiness sector. Supply and demand of agricultural products and especially food is centred not only at national or local level but also at a global level. Within these contexts, the individual farms are being increasingly squeezed out and they are unable to compete and to influence the market or have an effect on markets. For this reason, farms can’t only operate in their local area, but in a more complex and organized context with an ever increasing larger scale, accordingly they must give up individual policies and instead create alliances, collaborations between companies, for example through consortia, cooperatives, food and rural districts. In this chapter we want to highlight the opportunities in the light of the district may help to re-launch both the agriculture and rural areas. This growing interest in the district comes from a pondered reflection, aimed at any hypothesis intended for local development theory which might have its foundation in the endogenous development strategy. Through the creation of the district it is therefore intended to promote the integration between the enterprise system and the reference area.