The name is absent

The “highly-vulnerable regions” category includes (in decreasing order of vulnerability): Anatoliki-
Makedonia, Thessalia, Calabria, Castilla-la-Mancha , Norte-Douro, Aragon, Alentejo-Agarve, Sterea
Ellas, Sicilia and Centro-Ribatejo, i.e. primarily Greek, Portuguese and southern Italian regions (10
regions).

The “vulnerable” regions are: Liguria, Toscana, Sicilia, Midi-Pyrénées, Campania, Andalusia, Ipiros-
Peloponissos, Murcia, Valencia and Puglia (10 regions from central Italy, southern Spain and southern
France).

Finally, there are 10 regions which are “not vulnerable”: Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piemonte, Cataluna,
Provence-Alpes, Côte d’Azur, Pays de la Loire, Trentino, Languedoc-Roussillon, Brittany and Rhône-
Alpes. These are regions located in northern Italy, regions in western France and the French
Mediterranean and one region from northern Spain.

Synthetic Regional Vulnerability Index and Per Capita GDP

30,000

Emilia-Romagna

5,000

1,00       2,00       3,00       4,00       5,00       6,00       7,00       8,00       9,00       10,00

SRVI

All in all, it would seem that a positive relation exists between regional wealth, investment in innovation
and the performances of the fruit and vegetable supply chains.

From the agro-climatic point of view, complementarities between the production schedule and the quality
ranges exist from the south to the north of the Mediterranean basin. In the ever more certain context of the
creation of a Euro-Mediterranean area (Barcelona conferences, 1995 and 2005) we could, then, envisage
specific support for the development of economic partnerships between professionals in the
Mediterranean countries. These partnerships could also assume a strategic aspect, by confronting extra-
regional competition (Australia, Argentina, Chile, United States) in the conquest of the global market of
Mediterranean productions (Rastoin, 2005; Regmi et al., 2005).

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