Agri-food sustainable transformative pathways: diving through the evolving territory of Lucca

The aim of the paper is to understand the sustainable transformation on a specific area of Italy, the Plain of Lucca, using an action research methodology combined with service learning to provide an approach to understand and accelerate the transformation. The literature review serves to set the scenes and limitations of several mixed methodologies, leading to the willingness of adopting a territorial case analysis. We start from a socio-historical analysis to then understand the role played by several actors in a specific ecosystem, serving as a basis to identify the main emerging aspects that should be implemented in other cases to accelerate the agri-food sustainable transformation.