Innovation and Multi Functionality of Female Agriculture in the Short Food Supply Chain. Four Campania Region Case Studies

This article aims at analyzing the features and the dynamics of female agriculture entrepreneurship in terms of Sustainability Empowerment, in the field of the short food supply chain of fruit and vegetables products. Drawing on the data of the last Agriculture Census (2010) in the specific territorial context of Campania Region, the article analyses the impacts of female management in terms of innovation and multi functionality. In particular, it focuses on experience of direct sale Campania farms in which women’s role is crucial: using a survey in the form of open questionnaire, the article tries to answer to the following questions: does it exist a positive correlation between a farm managed by a woman and her innovative incentive in it? Can women concretely promote the innovation and multi functionality of farms in Campania Region?