Franco Sotte is Full professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy). He founded and edited the online scientific review Agriregionieuropa. He has been a consultant to the European Commission. He is emeritus fellow of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Gianluca Brunori is full professor of Agri-food policy at University of Pisa. He is President of the Italian Society of Agricultural Economics.