Health in the Anthropocene by Katharine Zywert & Stephen Quilley

Author:Katharine Zywert & Stephen Quilley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCSH: World health., LCSH: Health – Social aspects., LCSH: Environmental health., LCSH: Global environmental change – Health aspects., LCSH: Human ecology – Health aspects.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

The Broader European Perspective

Not only in the Netherlands, but also in other European countries like Norway, Belgium, Italy, and the UK, there has been an increase in the number of care farms or social farms. Care farming can be seen as part of the green care movement. Green care is the umbrella term for all care or health promotion activities conducted with or in nature. Haubenhofer et al. (2010) developed an overview of diverse green care activities (figure 10.1).

Figure 10.1 Overview of green care activities (Haubenhofer, Elings, and Hine, 2010)

The overview shows that care farms can offer health promotion, therapy, and labour reintegration. Over the last few years vocational training and education has become a common feature on care farms as well. In this way, care farms can offer a variety of activities depending on the target group. For instance, vulnerable people who have experienced exclusion from the labour market can be part of a labour reintegration program in which they learn new skills and obtain work experiences. Likewise, on a care farm serving elderly people with dementia, the focus is on accommodating social farm activities.

While the Netherlands has the National Support Centre and Federation of Care Farmers, Norway, Belgium, and the UK also have national care farm initiatives that oversee the general interests of care farmers. However, the financial support available to care farmers varies significantly between EU countries. For example, in Italy vulnerable people are paid for working on so-called “social cooperative farms,” while on care farms in Flanders (Belgium), farmers are paid by the Ministry of Agriculture to welcome people with a disability onto their farm (Di Iacovo and O’Connor, 2009).

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