The Agri-Foodstuffs Market and the Value Chain: Proposals for an Integrated System of Multifunction Logistic Centres in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria

The study investigates the agri-foodstuffs market, highlighting the developments of the last decades that have seen the large-scale retail trade to exert an action more and more invasive in the distribution value along the line characterizing the production chain. We focused on the Province of Reggio Calabria, its scenario of metropolitan city and the agri-foodstuffs chains that configure it as an important area for quality and quantity produced. Finally, it was proposed to overcome the narrow view of wholesale trade, with the hypothesis of a major agricultural hub serving the primary production in the Province of Reggio Calabria and its future metropolitan city, a route outlined by this work in order to revive a field that has always been strategic for the development and dynamics of the local market.