Dear all,

I am Valentina Cattivelli 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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