Description du projet
Tirer parti de l’innovation sociale pour améliorer la vie à la ferme
La mondialisation a accru les pressions économiques, environnementales et sociales qui pèsent sur le secteur agricole, rendant la vie des exploitants plus difficile. Il a été démontré que la communauté agricole n’est pas à l’abri des problèmes de santé mentale ou du sentiment d’isolement. Alors que les implications économiques et environnementales ont été étudiées de manière approfondie, les chercheurs se penchent désormais sur les problématiques sociales impactant les personnes actives du secteur agricole. Le projet FARMWELL, financé par l’UE, rendra la recherche et les pratiques en matière d’innovation sociale plus accessibles aux agriculteurs individuels et aux familles d’exploitants, dans le but d’améliorer leur bien-être.
Objectif
The main objective of FARMWELL is to ensure that individual farmers and farming families benefit fully from social innovation research and practices, which in turn will result in strengthening farmers’ wellbeing and linkages between the farming sector and the wider society. In an increasingly globalised and modernised world, the agricultural sector is facing a series of economic, environmental and social pressures and challenges. The characteristics of globalisation include the worldwide spread of new technologies, particularly in communications, but also in production systems (e.g. precision farming) and in the functioning of entire food chains. While economic and environmental implications of a globalising and modernising agriculture have been discussed more widely, there is also increasing attention, and consequently an increasing body of research and policy interventions on the social implications. Pressures and related social consequences - such as mental health issues, isolation, weakening family ties - are present at all levels from the individual farmers, through farming families to farming communities. An alarming sign of the serious social issues is the increasing suicide rate of farmers. The social challenges that farmers, farming families and communities have been facing call for new and innovative solutions. Social innovations have been identified as possible ways to address challenges. In the context of agriculture and farming, social innovation is mostly associated with improving agricultural practices to improve the wellbeing of the wider society (e.g. through food safety or environmentally friendly food production). Social innovation is rarely offered as a solution to improve the social wellbeing of farmers and farming families. The main novelty of FARMWELL is that it aims to identify and make more accessible those social innovation practices that can help improving the social wellbeing of farmers and farming families.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologyepidemics prevention
- social sciencessociologysocial issues
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safety
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social sciencessociologyglobalization
Mots‑clés
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.1. - Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.3. - Empowerment of rural areas, support to policies and rural innovation
- H2020-EU.3.2.2.3. - A sustainable and competitive agri-food industry
- H2020-EU.3.2.4.1. - Fostering the bio-economy for bio-based industries
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.4. - Sustainable forestry
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.2. - Providing ecosystems services and public goods
Régime de financement
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
2083 Solymar
Hongrie