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Claudio Malagoli

• Associate Professor of Food Business Economics and Social Evaluation

Biography

From 1983 to 2007, Claudio Malagoli was professor of Territorial and Environmental Evaluation in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bologna. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, and in 2011 was named full professor for the AGR01 grouping. He is a member of the Commissione ministeriale di verifica degli OGM in agricoltura and the Comitato operativo con il compito di valutare l'impiego di OGM in agricoltura, both a part of the Italian Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry. Previously, he was a member of the Ministry of Health's Commissione interministeriale per la valutazione delle notifiche ai fini della commercializzazione dei nuovi prodotti e nuovi ingredienti alimentari (novel foods).

Under the Indagine Conoscitiva on GMOs, Professor Malagoli spoke before the Commissione Agricoltura del Senato della Repubblica on the socio-economic impact of GMOs in Italian Agriculture, and between 2003 and 2006, he was part of the Techno-Scientific Council of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry. He is currently an evaluator of geopositioning systems on behalf of the Ministry of Research.

Courses Taught

Food Business Economics
Social Evaluation
Food Ethics

Major Areas of Reserach

Genetically modified organisms in agriculture
Neutraceuticals
Nanotechnology applications in the agricultural sector

Key Publications

Costi di produzione e di condizionamento delle pere in Emilia-Romagna e nel Veneto, (with F. Alvisi, C. Pirazzoli, D. Regazzi). Ferrara: Centro Operativo Ortofrutticolo, 1982.

"L'olio d'oliva del Garda: produzione e mercato." Agricoltura delle Venezie, 3-4 (1985).

"Moderne biotecnologie in agricoltura: una problematica aperta." Economia Agro-Alimentare, 2 (1997).

"L'impatto economico e sociale del biotech per scopi alimentari" in L'uomo è più dei suoi geni" (with Mario Capanna, Nelson Marmiroli, Valentino Mercati, Antonio Onorati, Carlo Rocchetta, Emanuele Severino, Bartolomeo Sorge, Claudia Sorlini, Ivan Verga), Milan: Rizzoli, 2001.

Etica dell'alimentazione, Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2006.

Contacts

Claudio Malagoli
University of Gastronomic Sciences | Pollenzo Campus
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 9
fraz. Pollenzo - 12042 Bra (Cn)

Phone: +39 0172 458511
Fax: +39 0172 458500
Email: c.malagoli@unisg.it