2009, Pisa (Italy)

• Contact persons: Francesco Di Iacovo / francovo@vet.unipi.it.
• Coordinator of the CoP workshop was ARSIA - Regional Agency for Development and Innovation in Agricuture and Forestry. Website: www.arsia.toscana.it. (Roberto D’Alonzo and Nella Oggiano, n.oggiano@arsia.toscana.it) with the participation of Pisa University (Francesco Di Iacovo).
• Programme of the meeting
• Pictures shared via Flickr. (If you also have pictures from this event, please upload then to Flickr and add the tag “ffh_pisa2009″.
• Presentations Day 1
  • What agriculture for sustainable rural and urban
    Gianluca Brunori (Pisa University)
  • Policies and pathways of change in Rural areas
    Elena Saraceno (EU policy advisor)
  • Social and economic sustainability in rural communities
    Zita Murphy (Rural Policy Branch Department of Agriculture and Rural Development UK)
  • Social farming in Tuscany – Where we are and why we are here
    Roberto D’alonzo (ARSIA)
• Day 2 – Photo impression of study visits:
  • Valdera area: Subject: Institutional framework and process of change by networking (farms and institutions at work).
    Coach: Francesco Di Iacovo and Silvia Paolini
  • Gorgona Island: Subject: Vocational training for prisoners in a public farm.
    Coach: Marco Verdone and Francesca Durastanti
  • Forteto Farm: Subject Rebuilding an inclusive community in a Farm.
    Coach: Marco Noferi and Angela Galasso
  • Pungiglione Farm: Subject Social Cooperative Third sectors and work inclusion for less empowered people
    Coach: Paola Scarpellini and Nella Oggiano
• Presentations Day 3
  • CoP Continuing the discussion:reshaping activities and organisation
    Saverio Senni (UniTuscia)
  • A manifesto for social farming across Europe
    Thomas Van Elsen (FiBL SoFar group)
  • Present and future of social farming in EU and in non EU countries – The role of National Rural Network
    Alessandro Monteleone – (INEA-National Institute for Agricultural Economics, Responsible Italian Rural Net)
  • Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) – an example of social farming
    Hajnalka Petric (FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia)