In the past few years, socio-environmental issues have become an integral part of the agricultural policies' content. In fact, the latest development patterns are demanding a different understanding of competitiveness, entailing commitment towards economic, social and environmental sustainability. Within the agribusiness sector, the new challenge lies in the capability of farms to produce healthy and genuine food while protecting natural resources, caring about the hosting territory and its human resources. Altogether, these elements contribute to build up the core essence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the agribusiness as it is conceived by INEA. These guidelines want to identify behaviors and tools for those companies in the food system willing to undertake a socially responsible path, i.e. taking into account the economic, social and environmental dimensions. To this extent, a modular perspective has been adopted, allowing enterprises to approach the theme of CSR on a degree-based logic and using the self-evaluation matrix. With this in mind, these guidelines aim to serve the objective of developing an organized process of social responsibility in farms' business and contributing to the implementation of (and the debate upon) sustainable development models.

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