Peasant resistances

Borghesi This paper finds its roots not only in an intellectual path but also into the concrete experience of looking for a small farm on the Apennines nearby Bologna. The idea: a little organic farm, first of all for family consumption and as an income opportuni-ty later on. Even a very small plot, even much less then the national media.1 We often hear that it is necessary to ‘persuade ’ young people to work in agriculture and perhaps we start to see the first signals of a change: Coldiretti reports that in the second trimester of 2012 the number of people employed in agriculture in-creased of 6,2 % with respect to 2011, and farms managed by under 30 increased of 4,2%.2 Also in the EU headquarters we often hear that is necessary to increase employment in agriculture, with more ecological techniques, most of all in the mar-ginal areas that were abandoned by agro-business (AA.VV. 2010). People coming ‘back to earth ’ are not a novelty, as in other countries the first rural movements in Italy started in the Seventies and Eighties, then connected both to capitalism critics and communal life ideals. This movement never disappeared an