Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/325623 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Italian Review of Agricultural Economics (REA) [ISSN:] 2281-1559 [Volume:] 76 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 45-55
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Florence
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to study the sustainability of Social farming (SF), with attention to practices addressed people suffering from addictions. In this study the Social Return on Investment (SROI) has been used as assessment methodology; has been used, which is increasingly used to approach the quantification of social, environmental and economic benefits on different types of investment. The SF activity of the Agricoltura Capodarco Cooperative was studied in order to evaluate the outcome in monetary terms taking into account all the beneficiaries involved. The application of SROI allowed to estimate a return of investment, coming mainly from the social component, ranging from 1,89 to 4,10 times, according to the degree of conservativeness of the estimates. The study extends both the analysis of SF to people categories only marginally addressed before and the application fields of SROI as assessment methodology.
Subjects: 
quantification of social benefit
social farming
social inclusion
social return on investment
sustainability
JEL: 
Q15
Q18
Q19
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Document Type: 
Article

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