Wat was de uitdaging/het probleem dat werd aangepakt??

The Corona crisis clearly showed that many citizens are interested in working on farms, helping farmers in various ways. This project involves a group of farmers who are open to cooperation with citizens and departs from their own needs, as well as the more general needs of the industry to involve citizens – paid and unpaid – in farming activities.

Closer cooperation between farmers and citizens in various forms (volunteering, care, educational practice, paid work, citizen involvement, openbare diensten) indeed has many different potentials. echter, this potential is largely untapped.

The project will reduce barriers to citizen participation and aims to promote innovative forms of cooperation. Re-evaluating volunteering and employment statutes based on legal expertise. What conditions need to be taken into account, such as competition rules, how governments can become facilitators of farmer-citizen co-creation food strategies.

Hoe heb je het probleem opgelost??

We created a project where farmers, experts and scientists are working on:

  1. a breakthrough notes on farmer and citizen participation.
  1. a learning network for experimenting with farmer and citizen cooperation.

Develop policy strategies by exploring new labor market programs based on existing campaigns and platforms that emerged and were strengthened during the lockdown period.

Wat zijn de succesfactoren bij het oplossen van het probleem??

  • Find appropriate legal models for cooperation between farmers and citizens.
  • Providing an enabling system for training citizens.
  • Providing innovative platforms for cooperation between farmers and citizens.

Eventuele onverwachte mislukkingen

None.

Les geleerd.

None.

Welke rol speelt de adviseur of adviesdienst binnen de praktijkcase?

ILVO played an important role in the creation and writing of the project proposal. Even if it is a farmer-centric issue and farmers are at the center of the steering group.

Kan jouw aanpak worden overgedragen en/of aangepast voor andere innovatie-uitdagingen en regio's??

Ja.

Geschatte overdraagbaarheid op een schaal van 1 naar 5

(waar 1 is gemakkelijk en 5 erg moeilijk)

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Voor het delen van de ervaringen met de goede praktijken, please contact Maarten Crevits (maarten.crivits@ilvo.vlaanderen.be)