In research, the rural landscape is considered as the result of the integration in space and time of economic, social and environmental factors, a complex “resource”, of which farmers were the main architects. The growing attention to the rural landscape is linked to a profound evolution of society and policies, which today interpret it as a more effective reference paradigm than just production or environmental issues, offering a point of reference close to the real values ​​expressed by the our territory. From the economic point of view the concept of production has left more and more field to that of “quality”, not only of the quality of the products, but of an integral quality, which associates each product to its landscape, producing an added value not replicable to the outside the places of origin. The biodiversity associated with the landscape can only be maintained through an active management of natural resources, in which agricultural techniques and practices developed over thousands of years of history constitute extraordinary examples of adaptation to changing and difficult environmental conditions.