Contemporary Issues on Agriculture and Health: Financial Framework, Reforms, and Competition Policy

Abstract

Rights and restrictions, education and financial resources at both European and national levels represent the core points of attention in proposing useful considerations on the effects of the pandemic in the health sector. Looking at health as a single and isolated sector makes it difficult to focus on the specific transversal aspects that are extremely relevant in the context we live in. Thus, health has to be considered from a multidimensional perspective, which encompasses different aspects ranging from legal to economic and social issues. The chapter develops an analysis that, through a complementary approach, embraces different sectorial dimensions, considering the supranational scenario and the current measures the Italian government has set in place till now. Within this framework, over the years, safe health has been more and more identified as a direct consequence of a safe agricultural environment. Thus, the whole chapter emphasises the important link to be inevitably taken into consideration for the future: the nexus between agriculture and health.