Italian agriculture between new and old CAP, what perspectives. The case study of Piemonte region

The aim of the paper is to investigate main structural characteristics of Piemonte farms with an attention to those already existing at the previous Census (2000), analyzing the rule played by the CAP supports by different sectors. The paper provides a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and a Cluster Analysis (CA) run on an innovative dataset produced by the matches between three different sources: Agricultural Census 2010, Agricultural Census 2000 and CAP Payments. Finally, the paper contributes to the current discussion on the CAP 2014-2020 trying to figure out the potential impact at farm level by cluster obtained in the analysis.