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

Focus Group members

Facilitation team

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