Social agriculture: a pattern between farm innovation, social responsibility and multifunctionality

Rural context and agricultural process are assuming growing credibility as a meanto promote well being and social inclusion in the population as a whole.Fattoria solidale del Circeo” constitutes one of the many examples of socialagriculture that have risen in the recent years in Italy. Differently from the generalcase, it is a large farm which is moving from a conventional an intensive farmingsystem to another model, without abandoning its entrepreneurial nature.Even if it is not easy to assign a theoretic paradigm, it could be useful both in orderto understand it and to give correct instruments to policy makers. So we can try toput the Fattoria Solidale del Circeo’s experience in a theoretic context.It seems to us that at least three different models can be applied: the well-establishedSchumpeterian model of innovation; the Corporate Social Responsibility, theMultifunctionality of agriculture.[...]