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Social farming in the context of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) Wioletta Knapik

Social farming in the context of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) Wioletta Knapik University of Agriculture in Krakow Institute of Economic and Social Sciences.

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Social farming in the context of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) Wioletta Knapik

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  1. Social farming in the context of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) Wioletta Knapik University of Agriculture in Krakow Institute of Economic and Social Sciences

  2. The CSFmodel is an innovative project, implemented since 2016 in cooperation and within the area of the Social Farm „Oaza pod Lasem” in Daleszyn. Community-based Social Farming– the genesis of an idea

  3. The CSFmodelrefers to the idea of social farming. It differs from the European forms of this kind of farmingby: • incorporation of many social services into farming in rural areas (within one or more combined social farms); • a clear social and philosophical idea uniting the farmers, their families, and the group of beneficiaries of the social activities and services; • joint actions of the involved entities (also local governments, non-governmental organisations, consumer co-operatives, and others) focused on bottom-up local development, using endogenous resources, connected through the idea of health and broadly understood education promoting a healthy lifestyle, culture, cultural heritage, and local history, strengthening local identity and patriotism. Community-based Social Farming– the genesis of an idea

  4. Community-based Social Farming (CSF) is a new way of managing rural areas. • In Polish conditions, CSF as a model of social innovation is based on • a cooperative way of farming. This novel system links many social, • environmental, agricultural and economic functions into a farming household. • From a sociological perspective, CSF concerns three analytical layers: • the structural (cooperative), • the interactive-functional (system of mutually dependent elements), • and the axiological (hierarchy of values). KnapikW., 2018, The innovative model of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) “Journal of Rural Studies”, vol. 60, pp. 93-104. Knapik W., https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Wspolnota-gospodarstwa-spolecznego;6137506.html Community-based Social Farming(def. W. Knapik*)

  5. For a model taking into account the mutually appearing, mutually dependent and complimentary elements of each of these layers, key concepts include “social ties” and “community”. The type of links that occur in CSF can be described as family-community ties. CSF is a open-type entity – it does not isolate itself from its surroundings. It plays an integrative role and has an enduring character owing to the strength of the ties between community actors engaged in farming. CSF is a new kind of community, taking advantage of the endogenic potential, rooted in the place where it arises, adding to the existing family circle new, unrelated members from nearby and from more distant locales – from the country, towns and their peripheries. KnapikW., 2018, The innovative model of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) “Journal of Rural Studies”, vol. 60, pp. 93-104. Knapik W., https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Wspolnota-gospodarstwa-spolecznego;6137506.html Community-based Social Farming(def. W. Knapik*)

  6. CSF clients come from various social groups – children, youth, individuals in their productive years as well as older individuals. CSF is supported by various formal and informal entities and organizations, as well as by other individual farms and interested residents. CSF, linked with socially engaged farming, constitutes an element of a new economic order of a community character. It operates in the specific field of rural community, in harmony with the natural environment. It offers social services, including care and therapeutic services, undertakes educational activities, and fosters intergenerational integration. KnapikW., 2018, The innovative model of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) “Journal of Rural Studies”, vol. 60, pp. 93-104. Knapik W., https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Wspolnota-gospodarstwa-spolecznego;6137506.html Community-based Social Farming(def. W. Knapik*)

  7. It operates in areas of health, the labour market, tourism and leisure, sport and recreation, culture and art, preservation of cultural heritage, traditional artisan crafts and handwork. It promotes farming supported by consumers, enables cooperative land use and management, employs farming without chemicals or ecological (certificated) methods of plant cultivation and animal husbandry. It is engaged in local production (homemade products), direct sales and agricultural retail trade, and provides gastronomical services for events. KnapikW., 2018, The innovative model of Community-based Social Farming (CSF) “Journal of Rural Studies”, vol. 60, pp. 93-104. Knapik W., https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Wspolnota-gospodarstwa-spolecznego;6137506.html Community-based Social Farming(def. W. Knapik*)

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  9. Strengths • Implementation of the CSF project constitutes a social and economic challenge. • The project fosters diversification of the conducted agricultural activities and acquisition of new sources of farm income. • It helps achieve greater consistency of the local community, educates and integrates it. • It may also become a tourist attraction of national and international importance. • They can conduct their activities throughout the whole year. These farms also have the opportunity to supplement their basic operations, i.e. agricultural production, with selected social functions. CONCLUSIONS

  10. Weaknesses • The hazards and constraints related to the implementation of the CSF, and later to the implementation of the worked-out solutions in other rural areas of Poland, include the need to acquire social innovators and entrepreneurs, who will undertake performance of such ambitious challenges. • Lack of support from local governments and lack of lobbying, which has to be sought, also constitute a certain hindrance. • Particular emphasis should be put on the sphere of innovative education, combining elements of natural environment, culture (local culture), and in particular health and popularization of a healthy lifestyle, promotion of own region, as well as strengthening of social bonds and inter-generational integration. CONCLUSIONS

  11. UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW „Educational Network in Conflict Management in Rural Communities” proposal ID: OC-2019-1-23709 WHO ARE WE? This COST action is proposed by a consortium of several research institutions from EU countries: University of Agriculture (Poland, leader), Agricultural University Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Alanya Alaaaddin Keykubat University (Turkey), University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) (Portugal), FH Oberösterreich – University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Austria) and others. WHAT IS COST? COST Action is a EU financing framework which aims at creating and sustaining scholarly networks. COST provides funding for leveraging locally funded research through international cooperation among the eligible countries, for developing new ideas and for incubating new research initiatives. COST networking tools eligible for funding are: conferences, workshops, training schools, “scientific missions” (academic fellowships and exchange), and dissemination activities (publications etc.). Please note that COST does NOT fund research as such (researcher jobs). And finally…

  12. „Educational Network in Conflict Management in Rural Communities” proposal ID: OC-2019-1-23709 COST actions have duration of 4 years and an average annual budget of 130 000 EURO. The budget depends on the number of COST countries involved (minimum 5) and is calculated through an algorithm (we do NOT file a budget in a COST proposal). COST submission is simple: individual researchers, not institutions, join the network and besides registering online no additional paperwork must be done before the eventual approval. The deadline for submission is Thursday, 5th September 2019 at 12:00 noon (CET). Evaluation Feedback: April, 2020. More information at http://cost.eu/. And finally…

  13. „Educational Network in Conflict Management in Rural Communities” proposal ID: OC-2019-1-23709 THE MAIN GOAL OF OUR ACTION: Creating and implementation an educational and intergenerational education addressed all the rural society of the selected areas occurred by conflicts. Through the new interdisciplinary scientific approach the non-formal education can avoid early warning signals of unforeseen societal problems. PROPOSAL OUTLINE Our main goal fits perfectly into OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS – COLLECTION OC-2019- Addressing Societal Questions by promoting transdisciplinary, new approaches and topics and identifying early warning signals of unforeseen societal problems aiming to contribute to Societal Challenges. And finally…

  14. „Educational Network in Conflict Management in Rural Communities” proposal ID: OC-2019-1-23709 WORKGROUPS AND WORKPLAN WG1: Identification of rural areas at risk of conflict, and categorisation of conflict situations WG2: Social costs of conflicts WG3: Economic costs of conflicts WG4: Model of intergenerational education And finally…

  15. Thank you very much for your attention!

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