Sustainable farming best practices for MSc programmes
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Fátima Baptista [1] ; Patrícia Lourenço [1] ; Vasco Fitas da Cruz [1] ; Luís Leopoldo Silva [1] ; José Rafael Silva [1] ; Manuela Correira [1] ; Georgios Papadakis [2] ; Evangelos Dimitriou [2] ; Pietro Picuno [3]
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[1] Universidade de Évora
Universidade de Évora
Senhora da Saúde, Portugal
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[2] Agricultural University of Athens
Agricultural University of Athens
Dimos Athens, Grecia
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[3] Università della Basilicata
Università della Basilicata
Potenza, Italia
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- Localización: X Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería: Libro de actas / Francisco Javier García Ramos (ed. lit.), Pablo Martín Ramos (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 978-84-16723-79-9, págs. 296-306
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The sustainable agriculture concept emerges from the necessity to ensure food production to feed the human growing population, while the natural resources, water and soil quality, ecosystems and others are preserved. One way to implement the know-how and techniques in sustainable agriculture is through educational courses in the universities, such as MSc programme, by promoting communication between academics, researchers, agricultural workers and other experts. This paper examines the best practices to serve as a guide to develop a MSc programme in sustainable farming. A questionnaire was prepared and distributed to academics’ expert in agrarian sciences in Greece, Italy and Portugal. The questionnaires were developed in order to define the fundamental competences/expertise, to identify the sustainable agricultural practices and the methods of training/learning that should be taken in consideration in a MSc programme in sustainable farming. The results allowed to identify the relevant best practices, the fundamental competences/expertise, the most important sustainable farming practices adequate forms of training/learning and the more efficient training methods that should be taken into account when developing the MSc programme.
