This paper describes the development of care farming in the Netherlands, one of the
pioneering countries in this sector, where care farming has developed into a very diverse …

Care farming or social farming, a swiftly developing sector across Europe (Hassink and van
Dijk 2006; DiIacovo and O'Connor 2009), is an innovative practice where agricultural …

The aim of this paper is to describe and understand the evolution of the care farming sector
in one of its pioneering countries, the Netherlands. Care farms combine agricultural …

Abstract Changes in climate, technology, policy and prices affect agricultural and rural
development. To evaluate whether this development is sustainable, impacts of these …

In recent years, European political, professional, and scientific interest in care farming–the
farm-based promotion of human health and social benefits–has been growing. This growing …

Surveys among care farmers and data from the National Agricultural Census were analysed
to describe the care-farming sector in the Netherlands. The number of care farms increased …

The dutch dairy sector has shown a strong development in the last decades, resulting in
fewer but larger and more specialised farms. Larger farms and more intensive ways of …

Social farming is an emerging issue in many EU Countries linked to an increasing attention
devoted to different aspects of multifunctional agriculture as well as to the recent concerns …

Agriculture is changing rapidly. The greatest current challenge to the agricultural sector is for
it to become sustainable in all three of the dimensions profit, people and planet. This is …

The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the
Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several …