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FAMILY AND ORGANIC FARMING. NEW APPRENTICESHIP TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH M-LEARNING

Costa, Cristina Amaro ; Correia, Paula; Correia, Helena Esteves; Guiné, Raquel; Rodrigues, Pedro; Teixeira, Daniela; Guerra, Luis Touriño and Basile, Salvatori (2014) FAMILY AND ORGANIC FARMING. NEW APPRENTICESHIP TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH M-LEARNING. Poster at: IFOAM Organic World Congress 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 October 2014. [Completed]

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Recently, family farming has become a central element in the public debate over its fundamental role in rural areas. Family farming is an important way to ensure agricultural and forestry production, as well as fishing and grazing, managed and run by a family that mostly depends on unpaid family labour, both women and men. From the 570 million farms in the world, over 500 million are family farms. In Portugal, 96% of the farms are of the family-type, which permanent and predominantly use labour belonging to the family.
There are numerous examples in which, through organic farming, family farming can be lead to new heights of success and innovation, with direct impact on the increase in the farm income.
The benefits that may accrue from the adoption of organic farming on family holdings in Mediterranean countries such as Portugal, Italy and Spain are analysed, its impact and major constraints, as well as the contribution that new forms of teaching and learning can make to its spread and success, including through project-based technologies and m-learning, as it is the case of the project ECONewFARMERS - Building a future for new farmers in ecological farming through vocational training.


EPrint Type:Conference paper, poster, etc.
Type of presentation:Poster
Keywords:vocational training, family farming, organic farming
Subjects: Farming Systems
Knowledge management > Education, extension and communication > Technology transfer
Environmental aspects
Research affiliation: Spain
International Conferences > 2014: 18th IFOAM OWC Practitioners Track
Italy
Portugal
Deposited By: Costa, Prof. Cristina Amaro da
ID Code:26653
Deposited On:16 Feb 2015 09:41
Last Modified:23 Feb 2015 12:52
Document Language:English
Status:Unpublished
Refereed:Not peer-reviewed

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