Royal Agronomical Istitute
for Italian Africa
now the Overseas Agronomical Institute
Via Antonio Cocchi 4
×History
The Istitute's new headquarters, ASCFi, 1942.
An Italian Expeditionary Force conquered Ethiopia in 1935, and on 9 May 1936 the Empire was proclaimed and Italian East Africa (A.O.I.) came into being.
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The name of the Italian Colonial Agricultural Institute, founded in 1903, was changed by law to The Royal Agronomical Istitute for Italian Africa on 17 July 1938. The institute, headquartered in the Palazzo Poniatowsky-Guadagni, devised programmes providing assistance to settlers and it specialised in tropical and subtropical agriculture. The institute's new headquarters-in stone, brick, travertine and marble-was under construction in the San Gervasio neighbourhood in 1940. It was rechristened Overseas Agronomical Institute in 1959.
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Palazzo Poniatowsky-Guadagni, in Viale Principe Umberto (now Viale Fratelli Rosselli), was the headquarters of the Royal Agronomical Istitute for Italian Africa, ASCFi, Firenze, 1940, 1-4, p. 49.
"New headquarters of the Institute under construction in the San Gervasio neighbourhood", ASCFi, Firenze, 1940, 1-4, p. 51.
