| Knowledge - Education |
| A proposal presented to the Steering committee of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) |
| Promoting access to education for rural people in Africa is crucial to achieving the Millennium developing goals. It is in Africa where the knowledge gap among urban and rural areas is most evident. Illiteracy is a great constraint to food security, poverty reduction and rural development policies. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_kn2/kn2_040501_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_kn2/kn2_040501_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_kn2/kn2_040501_es.htm |
| Arabic: http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_kn2/kn2_040501_ar.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Participatory Curriculum Development in Agricultural Education |
| This training guide seeks to help those engaged in agricultural education and training to identify the stakeholders for their own programs. It explores the reasons and methods for involving these stakeholders in the development of curricula. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/KN0902_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/KN0902_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/KN0902_es.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| World Food Summit Five Years Later : The Challenge of Feeding and Educating All |
| The paper was presented at the Workshop on “Food Security and the World Food Summit”, organised by FAO during the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture and Food Systems in the 21st Century (GCHERA,San Francisco, July 14th 2001). The paper addresses the major challenges and progresses in feeding and educating all in a world there more that 800 million people are undern... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1005_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1005_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1005_es.htm |
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| Knowledge - Extension |
| Knowledge - Education |
| Women in agricultural education and extension |
| There is widespread recognition of the need to improve both agricultural education and extension work with rural women. This article outlines the activities undertaken by the Extension, Education and Communication Service in the area of women in agricultural education and extension. These include a series of case studies on women in higher agricultural education and the preparation of a training m... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXan0016.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Human resource and institutional capacity building through agricultural education |
| There are very direct implications for agricultural education in the area of human
resource capacity building since by definition the term (and the process) has education,
both formal and non-formal, at its core. In its broadest interpretation, capacity building
encompasses human resource development as an essential part of development. Capacity-building efforts should focus on institutional st... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXan0015.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Education in agriculture: Links with development in Africa |
| The improvement of a country's human resource capacity for productivity is a
pre-requisite for social and economic development. In the agricultural sector, both
formal and non-formal education are essential for improving food security and rural
employment and reducing poverty.
To meet the challenges of agricultural production and food security facing Africa today and in the 21st century, coun... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXan0008.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Agricultural education and training: Issues and opportunities |
| In a rapidly changing social and natural environment, agricultural education and training is being asked to play a
critical role. What are the changes and adaptations, in structure, strategy and policy, that agricultural education
institutions need to make to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century? |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXre0003.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/EXref003.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Enrolment of women in higher agricultural education: Case studies from Côte d'Ivoire, Jordan, Nigeria, Philippines and the Caribbean |
| Agriculture has an important place in the economy of each of the four countries and the CARICOM, although its importance varies considerably from country to country. Women play important roles in agriculture in all of the countries studied. Women's roles and contributions to agriculture, access to extension and other services and literacy and basic education are some of the issues discussed in th... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXan0021.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Higher agricultural education and opportunities in rural development for women |
| Gender issues continue to be important in the development of educational policy and the planning of new initiatives. The Extension, Education and Communication Service carried out five case studies on the enrolment of women in higher and intermediate agricultural education. These case studies are summarized and consolidated into this report which includes a review of the trends and constraints tha... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXre0021.htm |
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| Knowledge - Education |
| Participatory curriculum development for agricultural education and training: Experiences from Viet Nam and South Africa |
| At the heart of most development programmes is an attempt to bring about change in people, according to this paper. In educational terms, change may come about in people's knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviour. The change should result in a person having an increased capacity to make decisions and to choose, implement and evaluate strategies effectively utilizing their availabl... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXan0026.htm |
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