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European Economic and Social Committee
Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment
Public Hearing on Social Farming
6 June 2012
Lessons learnt from ASTRA network in Rhône Alpes (France)
Dr Gerald Assouline
Scientific coordinator of ASTRA network www.res-astra.org
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What are we talking about?
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Need for clear definition
In SO FAR European project as well as in our regional network ASTRA, we propose the following definition and limits for social and therapeutic farming:
Social and therapeutic farming is an activity of
production and valorisation of agricultural products
and services, which allows the hosting of people
suffering social , mental or psychic difficulties,
for social and professional inclusion,
and therapeutic accompaying.
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In France
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In France, blossoming of collective initiatives
A majority of projects is managed by non for profit
organisations
• A majority of projects concerns social inclusion. They are rather well organised into networks of social
inclusion farms: several national and regional networks. Ex: Reseau Cocagne, ESAT.
• A fewer number of projects in therapeutic farming. They are dispersed. • No legal recognition of what is a therapeutic farm.
• What is legally ruled and funded is: hosting activity, economic/social inclusion
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Difficulties
• Limited hosting capacity in relation with the demand
• Costly investment to launch the activity and adapt the infrastructure to people
• Lack of professional training for those who wish to host vulnerable people. Would be very useful to propose:
- basic social and educational training for farmers,
- basic technical training for educators and social workers,
• Policy fragmentation: social farming depends of health, employment, agriculture, social affairs administrations…
• Lack of recognition of social farming as a specific activity (so no subsidy) and lack of framing rules.
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In Region Rhône Alpes
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Rhône Alpes: a dynamic region for S.F.
A provisional inventory done by ASTRA identified some 300 projects (it is a minimum)
Social / therapeutic
• 68 % are social inclusion projects
• 32 % are therapeutic projects
Associative / private
• 86 % are associative and non for profit projects
• 14 % are private
• 100 % of social projects are associative
• 55% of therapeutic projects are also associative
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ASTRA: an hybrid network
for social innovation
• 2010: the real first year of ASTRA (after SO FAR EU research project completion), with funding support of the Region, a Foundation and a county, as an outcome of SO FAR EU research project.
On the long term, networking should enrol heterogeneous actors - farmers, family associatons, researchers, social workers, medical sector, as they may be all concerned by the development of this social innovation.
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A collective
learning network
* organising
training days for
sharing practices
* tackling issue of
double skill:
educative
and technical
* involved
in new
curriculum
An experimental network * A mobility plateform is being conceived and tested:
to stimulate mobility of users
from associative farms to individual farms
A policy network * on short term: trains policy makers on what is social farming
* on medium or long term: should modify the policy agenda
and contribute to recognition and support to social farming
ASTRA
functions
A resource
network
* informations
in a data base
* knowledge
* films
* website
* contacts
* etc
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Changing the policy agenda:
a long term goal for ASTRA and its partners
On short term, regional support for disability issues and sustainable agriculture projects. They support:
. ASTRA coordination role. . They support a resource tool which is useful for concerned actors and policy makers; Does it mean that local actors are ready or able to
change their policies? NO >> ignorance of what is social farming >> policy fragmentation and multi-level public policy
making (from local to European)
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Facing institutional difficulties
• How to overpass policy fragmentation?
Possible solution:
- showing the virtues and efficiency of coordination, of transversality connecting policies and social services, farms, users and health sector
• How to deal with the different levels of legislation: regional, national, European?
Possible solutions:
- building networks of regions at EU level to tackle SF policy issues
- exploring the best institutional practices in other EU countries which aim at building transversality and coordination
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How to increase Social farming
audience? • By supporting innovation and increasing ASTRA
usefulness: - providing resources, - experimenting and answering needs, - encouraging collective learning,
• By showing that SF works and is a sustainable way for agriculture, for inclusion and for health. >> These are conditions for enrolling more partners and
develop the collective dynamic around SF. It can only be a slow process.
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Let’s work on a bottom up recognition
In a still very centralised country, like France, do we have to wait for a top down decision of recognition, which may come in a very long term or may never come at all?
Let ’s build, step by step, a bottom up de facto recognition
• There is no curriculum for social farming training: > let ’s participate in the building of programmes; • There is no legal recognition: > let ’s work on de facto recognition, by citizens and
consumers, of a socially responsible agriculture, with logo, terms of references and promotion strategies;
• There is no yet clear evidence of the benefits: > let ’s do European research on the impacts of social
farming for health, employment, agriculture, territories, public expenses.
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So...
• Many of the answers explored in France have been
tested and developed in other European regions and
countries.
• Lessons should be learnt of the development process of
organic farming in Europe: to avoid mistakes and learn
positive lessons.
• We need research on a lot of topics: probably one of the
most urgent is to work on the impacts and benefits at
European scale.
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