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Dr. Francesco Di Iacovo
Department of Veterinary Science, Università di Pisa, Viale delle Piagge 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 22 July 2021 in Animals
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The Cat/Dog–Owner Relationship Scale (C/DORS) can be administered to both dog and cat owners. However, the scale as a whole has never been validated on a sample of dog owners. Furthermore, it has never been translated into Italian. The aim of this study was to translate the C/DORS into Italian, modify its response scale in order to improve the degree of response variability, and test its validity and reliability on a sample of dog-owners. Exploratory factor analysis revealed the same three-factor structure (Perceived Emotional Closeness = PEC, Pet–Owner Interactions = POI, Perceived Costs = PC) as the original English version, although some items had to be removed because of low- or cross-loadings. The validity of the construct was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis, by the correlations between each of the subscales and the C/DORS total score, and by the correlations with the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale. Cronbach’s α values for each subscale were above acceptable levels. Student owners scored higher on PEC and POI than owners with other occupations. Owners of dogs with behavioural problems scored lower on PEC and higher on PC. Keeping the dog outdoor was associated with lower POI. Finally, pet dog owners scored higher on PEC than AAI dog owners.

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Giacomo Riggio; Patrizia Piotti; Silvana Diverio; Carmen Borrelli; Francesco Di Iacovo; Angelo Gazzano; Tiffani Howell; Federica Pirrone; Chiara Mariti. The Dog–Owner Relationship: Refinement and Validation of the Italian C/DORS for Dog Owners and Correlation with the LAPS. Animals 2021, 11, 2166 .

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Giacomo Riggio, Patrizia Piotti, Silvana Diverio, Carmen Borrelli, Francesco Di Iacovo, Angelo Gazzano, Tiffani Howell, Federica Pirrone, Chiara Mariti. The Dog–Owner Relationship: Refinement and Validation of the Italian C/DORS for Dog Owners and Correlation with the LAPS. Animals. 2021; 11 (8):2166.

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Giacomo Riggio; Patrizia Piotti; Silvana Diverio; Carmen Borrelli; Francesco Di Iacovo; Angelo Gazzano; Tiffani Howell; Federica Pirrone; Chiara Mariti. 2021. "The Dog–Owner Relationship: Refinement and Validation of the Italian C/DORS for Dog Owners and Correlation with the LAPS." Animals 11, no. 8: 2166.

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Published: 29 June 2020 in Sustainability
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The organization of multifunctional agriculture for the provision of social/health/educational services is spreading throughout Europe and elsewhere. This concept is not new, and the organization of practices differs according to each country’s welfare model. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the existing practices and trends and to provide a suitable comprehensive framework. Starting from long-term research action on this topic started in 1999 and from participation in European research projects and networks, this paper reflects on the features of existing practices and distinguishes emerging social farming models. Specific attention is given to the potential of social farming for both global change and the re-organization of local societies and welfare organizations. The diverse social farming models and their interactions with emerging constraints and needs during times of challenge and crisis, such as those we are currently experiencing, are considered in order to understand their basic principles (from direct support to co-production models), as well as how they correlate with the ongoing process of welfare reorganization and evolutionary societal demands.

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Francesco Iacovo. Social Farming Evolutionary Web: From Public Intervention to Value Co-Production. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5269 .

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Francesco Iacovo. Social Farming Evolutionary Web: From Public Intervention to Value Co-Production. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (13):5269.

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Francesco Iacovo. 2020. "Social Farming Evolutionary Web: From Public Intervention to Value Co-Production." Sustainability 12, no. 13: 5269.

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Published: 19 June 2020 in Sustainability
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For the last ten years, Social farming (SF) has become an innovative practice able to connect multifunctional agriculture and novel social services for urban and rural areas in Italy and the EU. By looking at the experience from Italy, it is possible to note that SF has not developed homogeneously along the national territory. It is characterized by a wide range of practices and activities related to the development of a welfare in which several topics such as subsidiarity, the value of relationship, and co-production find multiple meanings and applications. This paper provides a further contribution to the knowledge on this type of activity and opens the way to deeper considerations on the topic. The information reported in this study refers to a project born in 2018 and carried out by Fondazione Campagna Amica, a foundation promoted by Coldiretti, the main organization of agricultural entrepreneurs in Italy. This paper focuses on the analysis of data collected during this project, through in-depth interviews carried out from July 2018 to March 2019 among 229 agricultural enterprises, as well as meetings with representatives of the regional offices of Coldiretti that are involved in SF. This study aims to reach a better understanding of the development of SF in Italy through the perspective of a national network of farmers and to compare SF practices across regions in order to examine their similarities and differences. The most important results show big individual farms with a great variety of agricultural activities and livestock systems, with a clear predominance of horticulture. These SF farms mainly provide direct sales and educational activities and are involved in training and job placement services.

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Roberta Moruzzo; Francesco Riccioli; Angela Galasso; Carmelo Troccoli; Salomon Espinosa Diaz; Francesco Di Iacovo. Italian Social Farming: the Network of Coldiretti and Campagna Amica. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5036 .

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Roberta Moruzzo, Francesco Riccioli, Angela Galasso, Carmelo Troccoli, Salomon Espinosa Diaz, Francesco Di Iacovo. Italian Social Farming: the Network of Coldiretti and Campagna Amica. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5036.

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Roberta Moruzzo; Francesco Riccioli; Angela Galasso; Carmelo Troccoli; Salomon Espinosa Diaz; Francesco Di Iacovo. 2020. "Italian Social Farming: the Network of Coldiretti and Campagna Amica." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5036.

Journal article
Published: 28 October 2019 in Social Sciences
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Social farming can ameliorate the everyday life of people engaged in farming activities, including perceived changes in mood or behavior. It can also be therapeutic, as it can address a range of public health and service provision issues. This paper presents the findings of an Italian project that explored the impact of social farming on the well-being of the participants and their ability to perform certain tasks linked to agricultural activities. In addition, this paper tries to evaluate how the organization of the network system around the participants helps them to improve their relational capabilities. Participant observations were made in class rooms and farms where the participants carried out their agricultural activities. Such observations focused on the way in which participants and other subjects (i.e., tutors and training staff) inside the network system interacted. A number of in-depth interviews were carried out with tutors and trainers in order to understand if the participants would play a relevant role in social farming activities and what that role would be.

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Roberta Moruzzo; Francesco Di Iacovo; Alessandra Funghi; Paola Scarpellini; Salomon Espinosa Diaz; Francesco Riccioli. Social Farming: An Inclusive Environment Conducive to Participant Personal Growth. Social Sciences 2019, 8, 301 .

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Roberta Moruzzo, Francesco Di Iacovo, Alessandra Funghi, Paola Scarpellini, Salomon Espinosa Diaz, Francesco Riccioli. Social Farming: An Inclusive Environment Conducive to Participant Personal Growth. Social Sciences. 2019; 8 (11):301.

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Roberta Moruzzo; Francesco Di Iacovo; Alessandra Funghi; Paola Scarpellini; Salomon Espinosa Diaz; Francesco Riccioli. 2019. "Social Farming: An Inclusive Environment Conducive to Participant Personal Growth." Social Sciences 8, no. 11: 301.

Research article
Published: 18 April 2017 in Evaluation
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This article examines participatory evaluation of humanitarian aid projects in post-conflict contexts, through the presentation of a particular case: the evaluation of a project supporting herders and Bedouin communities breeding small ruminants in the Gaza Strip. The article analyses the current situation in the Gaza Strip, a unique humanitarian context, in order to gain insight into the value of participatory evaluation in post-conflict settings. The article analyses the participatory evaluation in order to understand how participation functions, what lessons can be learned and what outcomes can be generated. Finally, this experience demonstrates how participatory evaluation can work effectively in humanitarian settings despite the obvious constraints of conflict and post-conflict settings. Whilst participatory evaluation contributes to improving humanitarian-aid interventions, a more structural approach to participation is needed to achieve concrete and durable results.

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Cristiano M. Rossignoli; Alberto Giani; Francesco Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo; Paola Scarpellini. Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project. Evaluation 2017, 23, 134 -151.

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Cristiano M. Rossignoli, Alberto Giani, Francesco Di Iacovo, Roberta Moruzzo, Paola Scarpellini. Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project. Evaluation. 2017; 23 (2):134-151.

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Cristiano M. Rossignoli; Alberto Giani; Francesco Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo; Paola Scarpellini. 2017. "Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project." Evaluation 23, no. 2: 134-151.

Journal article
Published: 29 November 2016 in Sustainability
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Rural areas are facing a spectrum of landscape changes and vulnerability as a consequence of financial and environmental crises. Innovative approaches are required to maintain the provision of social services and manage ecosystem services in these areas. We explore the capacity of social farming to create viable and sustainable rural and periurban areas according to a social-ecological perspective. We use the key elements of social-ecological systems under social farming practices to analyse (1) the role of local communities and non-formal institutions; (2) the involvement of target stakeholders; and (3) the explicit connection between agroecosystems and human wellbeing. To do so, we selected and described four cases of local social farming initiatives in terms of the key elements of social-ecological systems and conducted a literature review to provide an overview of the explicit impact of social farming on the quality of life. We found that social farming illustrates hybrid governance solutions beyond market instruments that could be applied for the governance of agroecosystems. It can also provide a range of other wellbeing and cultural ecosystem services to rural and urban inhabitants. Greater cooperation between social farming and ecosystem service science could rebound in rural landscape sustainability.

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Marina García-Llorente; Cristiano M. Rossignoli; Francesco Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo. Social Farming in the Promotion of Social-Ecological Sustainability in Rural and Periurban Areas. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1238 .

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Marina García-Llorente, Cristiano M. Rossignoli, Francesco Di Iacovo, Roberta Moruzzo. Social Farming in the Promotion of Social-Ecological Sustainability in Rural and Periurban Areas. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (12):1238.

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Marina García-Llorente; Cristiano M. Rossignoli; Francesco Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo. 2016. "Social Farming in the Promotion of Social-Ecological Sustainability in Rural and Periurban Areas." Sustainability 8, no. 12: 1238.

Articles
Published: 18 March 2014 in The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
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The article reflects on transition management in rural areas and the possible implications for extension services able to support social innovation and rural change, starting from experiences on social farming in different areas of Italy. By presenting three case studies we investigate the role of social services in rural development. The design follows a research action involving local stakeholders (private and public) in a process of collective learning. The article highlights the difficulties and opportunities encountered in the process of transition management. In addition, it identifies key elements able to facilitate in redefining extension services supportive for social innovation and transition in rural areas. Rural areas are facing difficulties in dealing with the current crisis. In addition, the collapse of the welfare state contributes in reducing the viability of rural areas. In this scenario the article suggests: to re-think rural development initiatives; to improve the linkage between public and private actors in creating economic and social values; a possible process of transition able to create a new collective knowledge, innovative solutions and new rules and attitudes among sectors – agriculture, health, education – and actors – private and public. In the perspective of the 2020 EU strategy on social innovation, the research offers insight into the adoption of approaches and methods that can ensure more equitable paths towards inclusive and sustainable adjustment in rural areas.

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Francesco Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo; Cristiano Rossignoli; Paola Scarpellini. Transition Management and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: Lessons from Social Farming. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 2014, 20, 327 -347.

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Francesco Di Iacovo, Roberta Moruzzo, Cristiano Rossignoli, Paola Scarpellini. Transition Management and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: Lessons from Social Farming. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. 2014; 20 (3):327-347.

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Francesco Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo; Cristiano Rossignoli; Paola Scarpellini. 2014. "Transition Management and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: Lessons from Social Farming." The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 20, no. 3: 327-347.