Social Impact-Social Farming

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1 Project Social Impact-Social Farming CIA TOSCANA PRESENT HERSELF

2 CIA TOSCANA IS A FARMERS ORGANISATION REPRESENTING FARMERS IN TUSCANY

3 THE MISSION OF CIA TOSCANA SAFEGUARDING OF INTERESTS OF FARMERS AND PEOLPLE LIVING IN RURAL AREAS VALORISATION OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AREAS PROMOTION OF NEW ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

4 THE MISSION OF CIA TOSCANA SUPPORTING FARMERS Administrative management Assistance about Social rights Technical Advisor services

5 THE MISSION OF CIA TOSCANA IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS MISSION, CIA TOSCANA PARTICIPATED ACTIVELY AT THE DECISION PROCESS ABOUT: URBANISTIC REGIONAL RULES LANDSCAPE REGIONAL PLAN

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7 ORGANIZATIVE SYSTEM CIA TOSCANA INCLUDES A NETWORK OF 8 PROVINCIAL STRUCTURES SPECIFIC ASSOCIATIONS REPRESENTING YOUNG FARMERS WOMAN RETIRED PEOPLE

8 ORGANIZATIVE SYSTEM CIA TOSCANA INCLUDES OTHER PARTICULARY ASSOCIATIONS REPRESENTING FORESTRY OPERATORS ORGANIC AGRICULTURE RENEWABLE ENERGY

9 ORGANIZATIVE SYSTEM CIA TOSCANA INCLUDES SPECIALIZED COMPANIES FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INVOLVING MORE THAN 300 EMPLOYEE INAC AGRITEC CIPAAT SR Social rights Management Technical services

10 MAIN FIELD OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT AGRONOMIC SUPPORT ecologic agriculture, cross compliance, irrigation, breeding QUALITY OF PRODUCTS Improvement processes, certification CAP AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES Management of financial support INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES New technologies, agro-energies projects, rural tourism FARM MANAGEMENT Food safety, work safety, waste management

11 Social Farming Horizon Project Agroliberi II: opportunità di occupazione in aziende agricole di disagiati mentali "Agroliberi II (Countryfrees?): employment opportunities on farms of mentally disadvantaged" " Leon - 30 November 2015

12 Agroliberi CIA Toscana at the end of the '90s promoted the project "agro free", under the Community Initiatives "Horizon". The project involved a number of psychiatric patients with major difficulties of social and labor integration, with the aim of making these people take specific professional skills and give them some business opportunity Leon - 30 November 2015

13 In Tuscany, according to data from the Tuscany Region about two years ago, farms working in the social farming, are more than 150. These farms work with different types of disabilities: psychiatric patients, persons with disabilities, drug addicts and alcoholics, people from prisons, retired, kids, refugees Leon - 30 November 2015

14 Creating a model for social farming: with the University of Pisa we are carrying out work to define the organizational standards of social services for agriculture that can foster the integration between the agricultural world and the world of health Leon - 30 November 2015

15 In Italy we have a national law about Social farming, also a Regional law; Priority in funding and special measures from the Rural Development Plan; Recognition of social farming not only in agriculture but also in socio-regional health system Leon - 30 November 2015

16 CIA TOSCANA IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS CIA TOSCANA PARTICIPATED IN MANY EUROPEAN PROJECTS CONCERNED WITH AGRICULTURE, AS PROMOTER OR PARTNER

17 MAIN PROJECTS OF LAST 10 YEARS PRO AERE Pilot project LDV on agri-energy sector NEW AGRI Pilot project LDV on on cross compliance PRO AERE EXPERTS, RURALTUR, RURALTUR EXPERTS, AGRIDIRECT Mobility LDV project AQUANET, TRAINER, ECO DIAGNOS TIC, NEW CAP, MWE Toi projects leonardo da vinci COUNTRY CHEF Multipartner ldv project NO WASTE Grundwig project VOICE Life project on renewable energies

18 PROJECTS IN THE FRAME OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CIA TOSCANA PROMOTED IN 2012 THE COMPANY NETWORK RQT RETE QUALITA TOSCANA, MANAGING PROJECTS AIMED TO ORGANIZE THE SHORT CHAIN AND DIRECT SELLING CIA TOSCANA PARTICIPATED IN THE PERIOD AT MANY INNOVATIVE PROJECTS RELEVANT TO AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, MANAGING DISSEMINATION AND TRANSFER OF INNOVATION

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