Day 1 - Presentation Roberto DAlonzo

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Community of Practices Farming for Health Pisa 25/27 May 2009

Social Farming in

Tuscany: why are we here?

Roberto D’Alonzo

ARSIA- Tuscany Region






Rural development in Tuscany:the value of the difference

The main drivers

•Multifunctional agriculture•Tourism:farm and historicalsites•Typical products•Short circuits and localmarkets•Wine and wine routes•Local culture•biodiversity






Services and rural development• Services for local inhabitants in

rural areas as a key point

• Social farming can provideservices in rural areas

• Social farming can create newbridges among urban and rural

areas• Social farming is a part of

multifunctional agriculture thatcan be developed




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ARSIA and Social Farming: a pathway

of change in multifunctional agriculture (2)

• 2003/05: networking andeducating:

– meeting among existingindividual projects

– Seminars organised in existingsocial farms to share knowledge

– Vocational training connectingold practices and newcomers(from agriculture and from theservices;





• 2005/07: reinforcing the topic:

– Promoting social farming at institutional level: toinvolve regional Departments to debate about the topic inorder to prepare the new Rural Development Plan (2007/13)•Regional seminars and congresses onSocial Farming (Montespertoli)

•Writing rules for the new RDP (atregional level with the involvement of project holders)

•Participating to the SoFar project atEU level

–Increasing knowledge andsupporting new practices (about 100

nowadays)





• 2008/09: Reinforcing andexpanding the subject

– The world of prisons:• regional agreements for social

farming in the prisons

• vocational training in agriculture

– Supporting local initiatives:SdS Valdera, Responsible Amiata

– CoP Farming for health 2009

– The Italian CoP on socialfarming



• Tradition of social farming in the family farms• Starting point: 70’

•newcomers and communities in rural Tuscany (connecting socialinvolvement in economic production)

•Left and catholic groups

•The new law for psychiatric treatments (L.180)•The existing structures in the prisons (Gorgona)

• A first evolution: 90’

•The third sector: Social cooperatives and agriculture (creating work opportunities for less empowered people)•New projects on the prisons (Gorgona, Sollicciano)

• New projects: in the 2000:•voluntary associations meet the abandoned land•new projects in agriculture

•New activities from the social services

Social Farming in Tuscany:the evolution



• About 100 projects:

• Agricultural cooperatives (the evolution of thecommunities)

• Social Cooperatives type A: providing social services

using agriculture as a tool (public services are paying);• Social Cooperatives type B: promoting inclusion inagriculture (supporte by policies for social affairs)

• The voluntary activities: small projects around thecities in abandoned lands (charity)

• Individual farms: (local agreements with publicstructure voluntary based) (reputation and new markets

in the short circuits)• Public Structures: (Prisons)• New organised project: Connection among farms,

farms and cooperatives, local services and institutions(Orti ETICI, SdS Valdera, Responsible Amiata)

Social Farming in Tuscany: today



• From Rural Development Plan:• Support for investments at farm level• Support for innovation in social services in rural areas

involving also agriculture• LAG and LEADER initiatives

• From Social policies:• Work inclusion: tutorial activities, vocational training,

to promote work inclusion at farm level,• Educational activities (child and schools)

• From the minister of Justice• Social farms in the prisons• Vocational Training, facilities for work inclusion

Political tools for Social Farming in

Tuscany:



• Forteto: the history of social farming in Tuscany

• Pungiglione: the third sector in social farming

• Valdera: new initiatives and local networking in

social farming

• Gorgona: the world of prisons

Social Farming in Tuscany

The field visits



Thanks to be in Pisa and havea fruitful meeting

CoP Pisa 25/27 maggio 2009

Roberto D’Alonzo ARSIA

www.arsia.toscana.it

Terra Futura Firenze 29 maggio 2009

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Day 1 - Presentation Roberto DAlonzo