Dear all,
I am Valentina Cattivelli, a senior researcher at Eurac Research (Bolzano, IT) and I am a guest editor at Sustainability (IF 2.5).
With this, I would like to invite you to submit a paper within a special issue "Social farming for Social innovation and viability in rural areas". This special issue will contribute to the current debate on the green care movement, presenting some innovative solutions and business models to apply social farming as an innovative diversification strategy. The Issue will focus on the impact that social farming activities directly or indirectly have on the social-ecological transformation when fostering environmental knowledge building as well as well-being in and with nature. At the same time, it will evidence how social farming strengthens social capital in rural areas through the dissemination of culture and traditions in agriculture, the provision of social services, and the integration of people at risk of isolation. Additionally, the Issue will present applicable governance and legal framework strategies from their countries that provide legal certainty, regulate the quality of services, and ensure financial viability. Finally, it will investigate how social farming contributes to shifting agricultural activities from purely primary production towards service delivery. This extension of multifunctional farming enables new income opportunities to avoid farm abandonment and to counteract the typical phenomenon of de-growth, which rural areas are dealing with: demographic and agro-structural changes, brain drain, unemployment, vacant houses, or lacking services of general interest. If interested, please get in touch with me.
There is the opportunity to have a reduced fee (under certain conditions).
For additional information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Farming_Social_Innovation
Thank you
Best regards
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Dear colleague,
I am curious to hear more about the work you are doing, but I will not submit any journal to sustainability, as this is a purely commercial enterprise that publishes almost everything to make a huge amount of money, disregarding all the work you are doing as an editor and also the work of the reviewers. Sorry for my bluntness in this, but I really don't like the commercial strategy behind this journal. in other cases, I am more than happy to help and contribute...
Thank you for the invitation. I want to participate in the high level conferences across the world for the researchers. Thanks again
Gebre Yitayih
Bahirdar University
Unfortunately, not in this special issue. However, the topic is interesting!
Hi Valentina Cattivelli:
I believe that my fieldwork has implicitly considered the criteria of sustainability and social benefits. I will prepare an article in which the development vision was built on these criteria and as an example, the justification of a project based on results using the same criteria, which cover the most prominent features of your call.
Regards,
Vicente Elías Contreras Ramírez
Dear Vicente, thank you for your interest. Your article is welcome, but please clarify better its aim and structure. Consider also the guidelines of the journal and the deadline (29.2). Thank you again!!
Hello again Valentina:
Reading your recommendation there is something that was not clear to me. To collaborate with your call, do I have to pay?
Yes, you do. If your paper is published, you need to pay a fee
Thank you for your answer. I completely lost interest in participating with an open document for any audience
Regards and best wiches for new year,
Vicente Contreras
I am interested in submitting one of my research articles in this journal. Kindly share me with more information in these.
Dear Olajumoke, thank you for your interest. Please refer to this link https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Farming_Social_Innovation for any other information, please send me an email! Best regards
Olajumoke Jejelola
This is a very interesting Valentina, but the deadline is very close, I have another article to write, so I hope can contribute to submit to the Journal of Sustainability at another time.
Dear Cahyo, thanks for your interest! Another time! Best
Cahyo Rubiyanto
Dear Valentina Cattivelli , A pleasure to greet you, I commented that three weeks ago I sent you an email, with a potential summary for the special edition that you address in the sustainability magazine.
The address to which the contribution is sent is: [email protected], I consider that it is wrong since I have not received any response, whether we obtained a reduced rate or not.
The email I sent you is [email protected]
I look forward to your comments.
Regards,
Marco
Cai Xiang thanks for your interest. If you have considered also the social aspects of innovation, why not.
Best!
Dear Cai, the deadline is postponed. Now it is 30th April! Best!
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