Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: Social farming (also called care farming): an innovative approach for promoting women’s economic empowerment, decent rural employment and social inclusion. What works in developing countries?

Georg Wiesinger

Federal Institute for Mountainous and Less-Favoured Areas
Austria

Dear Hajnalka

I appreciate this very important initiative. Social Farming/Green Care encounters growing support in not a few European countries. For instance in Austria it became a key issue for policy makers and different interest groups after a cross-country study conducted in Austria and Italy (BABF Vienna, Eurac Bolzano) which was largely built on the conceptual background developed in COST Action 866. Now, we can envisage strong dynamics, the number of care farms is growing steadily, the fields of work are becoming more heterogeneous and there are even more options for financial support.

Best regards

Georg

 

Dr. Georg Wiesinger

Bundesanstalt für Bergbauernfragen (BABF)

Federal Institute for Mountainous and Less-Favoured Areas

Rural Sociology

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Austria

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