Focus Group 'Social farming and innovations'
How can social farming contribute to innovation in agriculture while strengthening the multi-functional role of agriculture and connecting people from urban and rural areas?
Tasks
- Collect and highlight good practices and inspiring success stories in social farming, which have been set up on farms.
- Identify challenges and opportunities to develop social farming models, including business models, and ways to strengthen the links between agriculture and social/health care sectors, education and employment sectors and between urban and rural people.
- Explore how social farming could bring innovation into farms and how it could benefit users and the surrounding communities.
- Identify the factors and needs to support social farming and how to build or strengthen the innovation through social farming activities.
- Propose potential innovative actions and ideas for Operational Groups and other innovative projects
- Identify research needs coming from practice and possible gaps in knowledge
Results
- Final report
- Factsheet
- Projects booklet: Studies from the EU CAP Network’s Focus Group 'Social farming and innovations'
- Mini Paper 1: Social farming for society: expanding the target groups by recognising and marketing the distinctive value of the farm environment
- Mini Paper 2: The role of social farming in bridging the gap between agriculture and society
- Mini Paper 3: Measuring impacts of social farming at the farm, on farmers and local community
- Mini Paper 4: Quality assurance in social farming
- Mini Paper 5: Ecological inclusion and social farming
- Mini Paper 6: Brokerage and advisory support
- Mini Paper 7: The role of LAGs (CLLD/LEADER) in triggering the implementation of social farming
- Starting Paper: Social farming and innovations
Focus Group members
Surname | First name | Profession | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Albers | Jelle | Other | Netherlands |
Brito | Olga | Farmer | Portugal |
Dejonckheere | Nele | Adviser | Belgium |
Dreer | Johannes | Adviser | Germany |
Dziasek | Elżbieta | Civil servant | Poland |
Elings | Marjolein | Researcher | Netherlands |
Galasso | Angela | Adviser | Italy |
Hubaux | Samuel | Working at an NGO | Belgium |
Hudcová | Eliška | Researcher | Czech Republic |
Moudrý | Jan | Researcher | Czech Republic |
NAVARRO | ISMAEL | Farmer | Spain |
O'Dowd | Colm | Farmer | Ireland |
Pálsdóttir | AnnaMaría | Researcher | Sweden |
Partalidou | Maria | Researcher | Greece |
Signoriello | Ilaria | Other | Italy |
Smyth | Brian | Working at an NGO | Ireland |
Thiery | Damien | Farmer | Romania |
Torquati | Biancamaria | Researcher | Italy |
van Elsen | Thomas | Researcher | Germany |
Yrjas | Christer | Adviser | Sweden |
Facilitation team
Moroney | Aisling | Coordinating Expert | Ireland |
Lombardo | Stefania | Task-Manager | Italy |
Verwimp | Bavo | Task-Manager | Belgium |
Guimarey Fernández | Beatriz | Co-task Manager | Spain |
Resources
Starting Paper - Focus Group 'Social farming and innovations'
(PDF – 351 KB)
Mini Paper 1: Social farming for society: expanding the target groups by recognising and marketing the distinctive value of the farm environment
(PDF – 507.43 KB)
Mini Paper 2: The role of social farming in bridging the gap between agriculture and society
(PDF – 649.48 KB)
Mini Paper 3: Measuring impacts of social farming at the farm, on farmers and local community
(PDF – 687.67 KB)
Mini Paper 4: Quality assurance in social farming
(PDF – 335.78 KB)
Mini Paper 5: Ecological inclusion and social farming
(PDF – 1.34 MB)
Mini Paper 6: Brokerage and advisory support
(PDF – 244.91 KB)
Mini Paper 7: The role of LAGs (CLLD/LEADER) in triggering the implementation of social farming
(PDF – 364.45 KB)
Projects booklet: Focus Group 'Social farming and innovations'
(PDF – 2.83 MB)