Francesco Di Iacovo

University of Pisa | UNIPI · Department of Veterinary Sciences

https://oa.inapp.org/xmlui/handle/20.500.12916/4003 a cura di Daniela Pavoncello Sabina Polidori. Il presente rapporto raccoglie le riflessioni di studiosi ed esperti nel campo dell’Agricoltura sociale, al fine di dare rilevanza alla ricerca transdisciplinare e multidisciplinare sul tema. Questo lavoro è l’esito di attività di ricerca e di studio...

Agri-environment-climate measures (AECMs) represent a transaction of ecological capital between the government as the buyer of the agri-environmental goods and services produced in the farmland and the farmer as the seller. As such, they involve transaction costs (TC) that serve to safeguard the transaction from opportunistic behavior, problems rel...

There is growing interest in research and policy to provide alternatives for developing and supporting sustainable business models in the agricultural sector. Agri-environment-climate measures (AECMs) were devised with the intention of compensating land users for potential income losses generated from the uptake of more appropriate, less intensive...

Social Farming (SF) is a rising practice that offers various typologies of initiatives involving different actors. Peculiarities consist of the types of networks organized at the territorial level and in the innovation processes they implement. In this study, through a cross-case analysis, we take into account six Italian social farms as case studi...

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Small businesses and farms are today struggling to find an innovative solution to a globalizing market and a challenging society. Among different aspects, small businesses, especially in rural areas, need to find a balance among tailor-made innovative solutions, specific customers engagement strategies, creative value creation solutions, and new bu...

Obtaining a Veterinary Surgeon degree relies on the acquisition of “Day One Competences” (DOCs), among which professional skills related to meat inspection are acquired during visits to abattoirs. In 2020, lockdown measures due to COVID-19 pandemic limited on-site practical training. The present study describes the creation of an e-learning course...

Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes is a popular tool to address the problem of environmental degradation. However, these projects do not always produce their best outputs due to the inefficiencies of sustainable development policies. Although some sources of inefficiencies cannot be controlled, the implementation of PES systems following...

Introduction: in the last decade, Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI) and Social Farming (SF) practices widely spread throughout Europe and at the same time, the scientific interest increased. In Italy, experiences are various and diversified among the 20 Italian Regions which have direct responsibility on these fields. In 2015 Italian authorities...

The organization of multifunctional agriculture for the provision of social/health/educational services is spreading throughout Europe and elsewhere. This concept is not new, and the organization of practices differs according to each country’s welfare model. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the existing practices and trends and to provide a...

For the last ten years, Social farming (SF) has become an innovative practice able to connect multifunctional agriculture and novel social services for urban and rural areas in Italy and the EU. By looking at the experience from Italy, it is possible to note that SF has not developed homogeneously along the national territory. It is characterized b...

Livestock is essential to global small scale farmers’ livelihoods. In Senegal, despite an increasing urbanisation, half of the population lives in rural areas relying on agricultural activities. The present work, which was carried out in the framework of a development project in the Kédougou region (South-East Senegal), analyses activities supporti...

2019): Small farms' strategies between self-provision and socioeconomic integration: effects on food system capacity to provide food and nutrition security, Local Environment, ABSTRACT Small farms' contribution to food and nutrition security (FNS) is widely acknowledged; however, the diversity of context-specific characteristics of small farms is s...

Social farming can ameliorate the everyday life of people engaged in farming activities, including perceived changes in mood or behavior. It can also be therapeutic, as it can address a range of public health and service provision issues. This paper presents the findings of an Italian project that explored the impact of social farming on the well-b...

Social farming (SF) emerged in the latest ten years in Italy and in the EU as an innovative practice able to link multifunctional agriculture and innovative social services for both urban and rural areas. SF mobilises unexpected resources from agriculture in order to meet local emerging social and economic needs and can be easily analysed under the...

This article analyses the cost of diarrhoea in lambs on dairy sheep farms located in Grosseto (Italy). Farmers’ profits have recently declined due to a stable product price but increasing production costs. Animal diseases have a cascade of effects on farm productivity. Lamb enteric disease outbreaks, which result in mortality in the herd and reduce...

Despite the trend in declining number of agricultural holdings and a gradual increase in average farm size, the European agricultural sector is largely characterized by farms with less than 5 ha of agricultural land and a standard output below 4 000 euro per year (Eurostat, 2015). The main criteria used to define small farming are land area, labour...

This article examines participatory evaluation of humanitarian aid projects in post-conflict contexts, through the presentation of a particular case: the evaluation of a project supporting herders and Bedouin communities breeding small ruminants in the Gaza Strip. The article analyses the current situation in the Gaza Strip, a unique humanitarian c...

Purpose: Through an analysis of a social farming (SF) case study, this article investigates how collaboration and knowledge co-creation between different actors can support the process of rural transition in order to stimulate innovation in the welfare system using agricultural resources. Methodology: We used the ‘Antecedent-Process-Outcome Framewo...

Rural areas are facing a spectrum of landscape changes and vulnerability as a consequence of financial and environmental crises. Innovative approaches are required to maintain the provision of social services and manage ecosystem services in these areas. We explore the capacity of social farming to create viable and sustainable rural and periurban...

Economic impact of lamb diarrhoea in the sheep farm

Social farming (SF) is an innovative concept belonging to a grey zone occupied by agriculture, social, education and health sectors. It involves various private and public actors who work together to co-create and share new collective knowledge. SF initiatives also involve many policies and tools that need to be reframed in order to facilitate the...

In rural areas in developing countries, numerous global trends contributeto the creation of social and economic deprivation and the impoverishment of local communities. These expose territories and local inhabitants to the risk of abandonment and economicexploitations. Worldwide inequality also seems to be on the rise, especially in rural communiti...

Social farming is an emerging practice at EU level and worldwide. It might be considered as the result of a process of social innovation, able to mobilize actors and resources for the provision of innovative services, but also to organize a diverse relationship among enterprises with public and third sectors. In Italy the concept is based on a deep...

The paper describes the experience of the participatory project Valdera 2020, aimed to the setting of the Strategic Plan 2020 for the Union of Municipalities in Valdera. The contribution, in addition to a summary of the project, shows the steps followed to manage a participatory evaluation procedure (PPV). We analys and discuss the results obtained...

As an effect of a protracted situation of conflict, the economy in Gaza Strip has largely developed through international humanitarian assistance. Over the time, the isolation of markets, widespread unemployment, and the economic crisis have caused a serious decline in the population living standards, with a high level of food insecurity. Today, th...

The paper deals with some relevant and contradictory aspects of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Italy: the traditional exclusion of agricultural areas from the goals of territorial planning; the separation between top-down policies and bottom-up practices; the lack of agricultural policies at local scale. In the first part the paper summarises...

The paper deals with the issue of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in Italy, highlighting some relevant aspects of its contradictory processing in the planning perspective: the traditional exclusion of agricultural areas from the goals of territorial planning; the too sharp distinction between top-down policies and bottom-up practices; the la...

Agricoltura civica e filiera corta Nuove pratiche, forme d'impresa e relazioni tra produttori e consumatori N. 22 -LUGLIO 2014

PurposeThe article reflects on transition management in rural areas and the possible implications for extension services able to support social innovation and rural change, starting from experiences on social farming in different areas of Italy.Design/methodology/approachBy presenting three case studies we investigate the role of social services in...

The debate on the welfare crisis is not always considered within the rural development debate, at least at EU level. However, in the meanwhile, a strong crisis of public services is emerging on the ground as a crucial issue concerning the economic development. As a consequence of the global economic regime the creation and distribution of value acc...

There is a rising awareness of the power of the public sector in enhancing sustainable consumption and production practices, in particular related to food procurement and its social, ethical, economical and environmental implications. School meal services have a high resonance in the debate on collective catering services because of the implication...

This paper looks at cities as socio-technical systems consisting of patterns of interaction between actors, rules and artefacts. The issue of urban food security emerges as a key policy goal. This goal can be achieved through the coordination of a series of policies including territorial planning, commerce regulation, public procurement, health pre...

Due to a protracted situation of conflict, the economy in the Gaza Strip has developed largely dependent on International humanitarian assistance. The isolation of markets, widespread unemployment, and the economic crisis have caused a serious decline in population living standards, with a high level of food insecurity. Recently the population in G...

Social farming is a traditional as well as an innovative activity for farmers. It regards the use of resources from agriculture for rehabilitation and social inclusion. The term SF has recently entered the scene of rural development in EU, embracing a wide constellation of different practices that are emerging in the territories; experiences that,...

The framework of Farming for Health in Italy is presented in this chapter. Starting from some historical features, we present practical experiences, institutional arrangements, relevant actors and main target groups involved in Green Care in Italy. The final result shows a peaceful but also dynamic situation from a geographical, technical as well a...

RIASSUNTO I molteplici fattori di cambiamento in atto nel settore agro-alimentare, quali: l’allargamento a nuove funzioni e tipologie di attività e prodotti, le rapide evoluzioni nei mercati alimentate dall’evoluzione delle tecnologie, dai processi di competizione e dalla rapida e continua evoluzione degli stili di consumo e dei modelli di vita del...

Multifunctional Agriculture (MA) represents the EU model for post-fordism agriculture in an attempt to ri -localize agriculture into the local system. In the OCDE view one of the main goal for MA is to offer public goods (environmental services) and private goods (typical products, tourism) and to internalise public goods providing private services...

Since the last reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Rural Development (RD) is playing an increasingly important role in helping rural areas to meet the challenges of the 21st century. But the shift from the first to the second pillar is not just a reassignment of funds, it means to move from a supranational direct regulatory approach to...