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COST Action 866: Green Carein Agriculture (modifiedfrom a presentationto COST’sTechnicalCommitteeofAgriculture, Biotechnologyand Food, July2005) Bjarne O. Braastad (Chairman),professor ofethology,Dept. ofAnimal and AquaculturalSciences,NorwegianUniversityofLife Sciences, Ås, Norway Whatis Green care? The health sector and social services needalternatives to traditional medical treatment, therapy,rehabilitation, and work training. ‘Green care’ is the utilization of agricultural farms asa base for promoting human mental and physicalhealth. Animals, plants, gardens, forests, and the landscape are used in recreational or work-relatedactivities for: Psychiatric patients, mentally disabled persons,people with learning disabilities, burnout problems, or a drug history, including youth and elderly people, and social service clients . Green care in AgricultureGreen care in Agriculture AnimalAnimalAnimal---assisted therapy: Physicalassisted therapy: Physicalassisted therapy: Physicalcontact with animals is thought to becontact with animals is thought to becontact with animals is thought to beparticularly rewardingparticularly rewardingparticularly rewarding Photo: Bente Berget Green care in AgricultureGreen care in Agriculture Green care in AgricultureGreen care in Agriculture Horticulturaltherapyand landscape Working in the gardencreates growth and beautyPeople feel betterin a preferredlandscape (from a PhD course) Photo: Eva Vike
