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Social agriculture increasingly represents a feasible innovative approach to bringing about economic empowerment and the social inclusion of vulnerable persons and families through agriculture based resources. Falling within MAIE – the Multifunctional Agriculture Initiative of Europe, in partnership with representatives from Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Finland, AgroBio – the Portuguese Organic Agriculture Association staged a social agriculture training program at the Higher Agrarian Institute of Coimbra on 30th, 31st October and 1st November. With the audience made up both of farmers and social welfare professionals, the core objective of this social agriculture training program …