Deadline:21 October 2014
The three-week International course on Agriculture in transition – Between tradition, innovation, and visioning: building new models for the future to be held from 18-29 May 2015 in the Netherlands is now open for applications. The course offers a system perspective on agriculture as well as skills to design innovative and sustainable farming options.
The course will use a mix of lectures, discussions, group work and field trips to offer background, theoretical foundations, as well as practical approaches for production and market development.
The participants of the two-week training course will –
- Gain a deeper understanding of how global development, trends and patterns affect farming practices and policies at local and national levels
- Be able to use various tools and techniques to analyze their own agricultural systems and identify critical issues for change
- Have the ability to develop scenarios in search of alternative options and trade-offs in resource-scare situations, using state-of-the-art approaches
- Design own transition paths for the introduction of innovative farming interventions that are socially, economically and ecologically balanced
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be technically, academically, and policy oriented participants from different countries.
- Applicants must be committed to actively participate in the course interacting and generating new ideas.
- Applicants can be farm managers, trainers, entrepreneurs, academics, NGO-managers and policy staff and others.
- Applicants must have active interest and professional experience in some of the topics to be addressed.
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