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
(U
Trentino
Rhône -Alpes* Piemonte
25,000
20,000
LOW VULNERABILITY
Lazio
Veneto
PACAφ
3ays Loirè
* ⅜ Liguria
Toscana
Midi-Pyrénées
Bretagne
Cataluna
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Langu∣ idoc-Roussillo ι
Average 30 regions
Aragon
15,000
Puglia
Vale ιcia
φSterea Ellias
Murcia
Andalucia
* ♦ Sicilia
Carnpania
Castilla Ia Mancha
Calabria
Ipirc S-Peloponissos
Alentejo-Algarve
10,000 Zentro-Ribatej!)
♦ Norte-Douro
Thessalia
Anatoliki Makedoni
AVERAGE VULNERABILITY
HIGH VULNERABILITY
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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