Description – SIMRA Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas

BioSzentandrás

Starting Year:

Scale:Region:

MRA characteristics*: Intermediate Rural Area; 16% mountainous; ratio of all roads length to region area, 2.6; 28.6% of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 65% of people with access to the internet.

Location:

Sector:Topic:

Challenges addressed:

Poverty and social exclusion

Description:

Creation of a community-based, owned and cultivated organic vegetable garden and the associated processing, short supply chains and marketing environment, in order to fight poverty and social exclusion in the village.

Form:Actors involved:

Practices:

Training / Teaching; Production of goods; Marketing & Promotion; Management

•A University lecturer • Non-profit business and trading partners • Public institutions (school, kindergarten)

Social change:

• The use of some land in the middle of the village owned by the local authority to created a small organic vegetable garden.

Further information:

Website:http://www.bioszentandras.hu

References:

• Katonáné Kovács, J., Varga, E., & Nemes, G. (2016). Understandig the process of social innovation in rural regions. Studies in Agricultural Economics, 118(1), 22-29.

* Information at the level of NUTS 3 or local regions.