Social Farming in Czechia, Actors and Barriers

Abstract

The article deals with the state of social farming in Czechia, which is obviously in its infancy. The main barriers to development are the character of Czech agriculture, which is radically based on large-scale production and deliveries to large customers, insufficient cooperation of individual ministries and too narrow conception of the problem as care farming. At the same time, we can expect increasing demand for this type of management in the future. Some ideas for improving the situation are presented, the most important of which is the recognition of social farming by the public administration and the creation of a legal framework for its development.

Benchmarking Study of Existing Possibilities for the Development of Social Farming in the Czech Republic

“…In France, especially agro/ecotourism is often associated with social farming. (Šťastná et. al, 2022;McIntyre, 2018) Agrotourism is understood as an activity where two sectors in the professional, organizational or economic field are combined.…”