Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Italy)


The Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, italic=no or MiPAAF, is an Italian government department.
It was formed in 1946 as the Ministero dell'Agricoltura e delle Foreste, and following the referendum of 1993 became the Ministero per il Coordinamento delle Politiche Agricole. It was reconstituted in the same year as the Ministero delle Risorse Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali and assumed the current form in 2006, after the organisational reforms of 2005.
The Ministry, based at the Palazzo dell'Agricoltura in Rome, produces and co-ordinates government policy on agriculture, forests, food and fisheries at national, European and international level.
The current Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies is Teresa Bellanova.

Organisation

Ministry

Comando Carabinieri Politiche Agricole

The Comando Carabinieri Politiche Agricole is the department of the Arma dei Carabinieri which develops extraordinary controls on :
  1. supply and use of subsidies in the agricultural, fisheries and aquaculture sectors;
  2. withdrawing and sale of food products, including helping the poor and those in developing countries

    National Council on Agriculture

Dipartimento delle Filiere Agricole e Agroalimentari (Di.F.Ag.)

Direzione Generale delle Politiche Agricole (Pol.Agr.)

Direzione Generale dello Sviluppo Rurale (Pos.R.)

Direzione Generale per la Qualità dei Prodotti Agroalimentari (Q.P.A.)

Direzione Generale per la Tutela del Consumatore (D.T.C.)

Direzione Generale dell'Amministrazione (Amm.)

Central Inspectorate for quality control on food products

Corpo Forestale dello Stato

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