Prof. Concetta Vazzana is full Professor at Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence (UNIFI-DISPAA), leading the Sustainable Agriculture and Land Management research group. She has been Director of the Department of Agronomy and Land Management, and President of the degree course in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies of the Agricultural Faculty.
Her main research interests address agroecology and biodiversity. She has coordinated national project and unit leadership in EU projects, as well as of supervision of PhD students. In 1982/83 she started teaching Agricultural Ecology at the University of Florence, the second Italian chair after prof. Caporali in 1980 at Tuscia University.
She is author of the book “Ecologia Agraria” from Patron Editor, Bologna (1998). At early 2000s she coordinated the first Masters in Ecological Agriculture (Organic and Biodynamic) which had fifth editions. In the last three decades she has lead one of the most advanced experiments on organic agriculture of the Mediterranean area, namely the Montepaldi Long Term Experiment (MOLTE) on a comparative analysis between organic and conventional arable cropping systems.