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Social agriculture as a provider of public goods

Multifunctional agriculture is a term referring to the production of various noncommercial goods, in addition to the basic food production. It moves the focus from productivity to the production of public goods through numerous aspects of social and environmental sustainability. It is a provider of social public goods, such as rural vitality, food safety, poverty decrease and social inclusion, animal welfare, and climatic change effects amelioration. It plays an important role in the sustainable development of vulnerable rural comunities, especially those affected by natural and war disasters. This paper’s objective is to represent a part of a theoretical approach and practices pertaining to multifunctional agriculture, with a special emphasis on social farming, since the supported social farming activities contribute to the production of public goods, and their various applications of traditional productional modalities contribute to social and environmental sustainability. By virtue of this paper, the authors would like to provide for an incentive to the academia and body politic regarding the establishment of a positive atmosphere and a stimulative legislative framework for the development of social agriculture in the Republic of Croatia.

multifuncional agriculture ; public goods ; social farming ; green care ; sustainability

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