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Hessisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
Hesse
Mainzer Straße 80
65189 Wiesbaden
Website: External link to the authority
Added value of social farming for agricultural production
Social farming combines social work with agricultural production and pursues social, therapeutic and educational goals. In Germany social farming enterprises specializing in certain clientele predominate, often as part of sheltered workshops for disabled people and with the status of non-profit organizations. The integration of people from outside the agricultural sector into "normal" farms is much more common in other European countries. The challenge is also to ensure that the "inclusion" of people with special needs in agriculture, as required by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Disabled, becomes a synergy rather than a "handicap" for the farm. Therefore, within the framework of the "Interdisciplinary Partnership on Added Value through Social Farming in Hesse", an operational group of producers and scientists, has started to collaborate in order to investigate and support the potential of social farming for the development of agricultural enterprises in Hesse.
The social empirical study and the counselling interviews in the EIP project have shown that there is a need for farm development support and coaching that goes beyond the need for counselling and that connects the "worlds" of agriculture and social work in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary way. The "starter course" developed in the EIP project with a test run is already moving in the right direction by developing interdisciplinary farm concepts over a period of three months. The nationwide online survey carried out as part of the project shows that farms and social organisations are also interested in combining social and educational work with agricultural fields of work - creating new prospects for farms, people and rural areas. At the end of the project, a thesis paper was drawn up and supplemented by a tabular overview of the "Need for action to promote the development of social farming in Hesse".
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)
Universität Kassel, Fachgebiet Ökologischer Land- & Pflanzenbau
Nordbahnhofstr. 1a
37213 Witzenhausen
Phone: 05542-981655
Email: Thomas.vanElsen@uni-kassel.de
2018
completed
244,890
DE737 Werra-Meißner-Kreis
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