Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
The Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) of the University of Torino was formed in 2012 by the merger of the five departments that made up the Faculty of Agriculture. It is home to research with regard to primary production and processing of plants and animals, as well as the interactions of these activities with the land and environment.
Research makes the most of advanced equipment located in the individual laboratories of the Units into which the Department is divided, and in more complex, shared laboratory and field infrastructures. The Department has five Experimental Centres located in significant agricultural areas of Piedmont. The Department actively collaborates with the Butterfly Area, a New Tech development area that hosts companies and research institutions.
In the period 2017-22, DISAFA participated in 172 research projects of which 86 were European. The Department won the 2018-22 Project of Excellence, and participates in numerous PNRR projects, particularly AGRITECH. In the international rankings (NTU-Taiwan, US News Ranking, ARWU Shanghai Ranking) the Department (or the related scientific field of the University of Turin) ranks among the top 5 in Italy and the top 100 worldwide
