AGRICULTURE AS AN ACTOR OF SOCIAL INCLUSION – Social agriculture represents an approach that combines agricultural activities with social goals. This concept includes the use of agricultural resources to create social benefits. The goal is not only food production, but also the provision of services, the creation of new jobs, educational activities and various types of therapies for people with specific needs. Systematic attention to the development of the social economy in rural areas and in the agro-production sector generates breakthroughs in the areas of policy development creating suitable conditions for social agriculture, social agriculture as a space for the introduction of innovations and as part of the organizational landscape of the social economy and the social system in Slovakia.
