Sustainable Agriculture: a New Gender Approach and Challenges for Education

• Autorzy: Valentina Pidlisnyuk
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Sustainable agriculture has evolved from three perspectives: a system of production to achieve self-reliance in food production; as a concept of stewardship; and as a vehicle for sustaining rural communities. Shifting from a concentration on production-focused agriculture to a focus on rural development poses various challenges to the traditional agricultural education system. Education should put the environment into the broader social context of education in sustainable development, which is an essential precondition for raising public awareness, changing consumption patterns, and building a responsible and active attitude amongst people in their relationship with nature. Unfortunately, public support for agricultural higher education in the Ukraine, as well as in other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, is weakening. Traditional agricultural university education alone cannot meet future challenges for rural areas in the fields of management, conservation and agribusiness. The agricultural educational system should make a leap from pure university education to a greater emphasis on non-formal adult education, in order to influence a wide range of stakeholders, including those in academia, in farming and non-farming rural areas, policy makers and the private sector. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Sustainable agriculture; Agricultural education; Gender

PL

Rolnictwo zrównoważone; Edukacja rolnicza; Płeć

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2004
• Numer: Vol. 6
• Strony: 311--319

Twórcy

autor

Valentina Pidlisnyuk

• National Agricultural University of Ukraine, Ukraine

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