Prof. Davide Viaggi is a Full Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna. He has participated in research activities in cooperation with a vast network of national and international institutions. He works on research funded mainly by the European Union (fp5, fp6, and fp7), the Italian Ministries, regional administration, and private organizations. He has coordinated two research projects in fp7 (CAP-IRE and CLAIM) and three previous research projects on farm investment behavior, funded by the IPTS-JRC Seville. His research activity concerns the following topics: agricultural policy evaluation; technical change and innovation in agriculture and food; farm investment behavior; agri-environmental policy analysis; water resource evaluation and management; environmental impact assessment and resource economics; land market and asset evaluation. tools encompassing mathematical programming, principal/agent models, multi-criteria and cost/benefit analyses, and econometric techniques applied to interpret agents’ behavior and their outcomes.