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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Dear Dr Valentina Cattivelli,
Thank you for your invitation. Hope to submit a manuscript within the deadline.
The publication fee is (unfortunately) excessive for my budget. Perhaps you could explain what are the conditions to be accepted at a reduced fee? Thanks!
Good afternoon! Thanks for the invitation. The publication fee is excessive for my budget.
Dear Dr Valentina Cattivelli,
Thank you for your invitation. Hope to submit a manuscript within the deadline.
Please tell me how or where to send the articles I'm very interested in, does it have any cost?
Dear Jaime, you can find all information here https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Farming_Social_Innovation
Please send me an email to this address: [email protected], in this way I can send you all information you need. Thanks for your interest, best!
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....
I would like to confirm if it is only directed to rural areas in Europe.
Dear Cristina Fachini Europe is our geographical area of interest, however, the special issue is open to contribution focused on rural areas across the world.
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