The UNINA-DAS is settled at the historical Faculty of Agriculture located in the royal palace of Portici that is a long established Institution with expertise in the fields of plant science, fire ecology, animal ecology and behaviour, conservation biology and ecological modeling.

The institutional education activities range from undergraduate courses to doctoral studies in the field of agriculture, food science, forestry and environmental science. The scientific relevance and international recognition of these research products positioned, for the year 2014, the University of Naples Federico II as number one in Agricultural Sciences in Italy among the top 16 Universities evaluated, 12 out of 129 in Europe, and 38 out of 300 in the world (see National Taiwan World University Ranking).