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 |
