Although traditional agriculture continues feeding us every day, we know for sure that the future of its production goes through a reconversion and change if we want to preserve natural resources and the environment atmosphere .
First, by an unstoppable reality; the rise of the world population is being radical, and, as a consequence, there will be many mouths to feed in an agricultural ecosystem that, from today's perspective, it will not support the demand for food.
If we add to this the negative effects of agriculture conventional that you are currently having on the resources natural; such as water, soil, and biodiversity or the weather uncertainties. We have quite a dangerous cocktail if the human race wants to survive a future that is not nothing clear.
So we need a transition to systems sustainable food and agriculture …
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The free agroecology course is taught by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) of Argentina to start next month and it is totally online. Initially, training is a project prepared in France, by the National Institute of Studies Agronomic Superiors of Montpellier (SupAgro) that INTA has worked to adapt it with contents in an approach Latin American.
The United Nations Food Organization and Agriculture (FAO) highlights the importance of this issue in the 10 elements of agroecology that are interconnected.
To review, two topics of interest and related published on this same website:
In this virtual course you will discover what is agroecology , what are its different objectives from the perspective of the sciences agronomics , ecology and social sciences, and how they translate into agricultural practices .
Participants will learn to analyze and describe specific implementation situations, identify agroecological practices in their immediate environment and concretize processes and methods of agroecological «transition» towards non-aggressive procedures.
This online training on agroecology is built as a participatory training dynamic, based on the social and geographical diversity of the participants. The course is in MOOC format (Massive Online Open Courses
The duration of the course is 6 weeks and it is made up of 5 themes – units that will be progressively enabled according to directions from teachers. It is not necessary to have a Specific prior training to enroll in the training
1.- Unit: The emergence of the agroecology
2.- Unit: The different approaches to agroecology
3.- Unit: Practical implementations of agroecology
4.- Unit: The transition agroecological
5.- Unit 5: Realization of a mini-interview
Those who are interested in the free course of agroecology a and receive more information or join the training, you can consult by clicking HERE (There is a new edition in this 2023) By the way, you can also see other courses from the same platform on your campus from HERE that go opening and closing throughout the year according to summons.
Another course that we discussed and of interest is the analysis Geography of Natural Hazards by the University of Alicante.
Note: Apparently and as we have verified, within the registration page that we reviewed earlier. When access the registration link, the browser throws an error of “the connection is not private”. Although you can actually access, we advise you to send an email to the staff of the curso – moocagoecologia@inta.gob.ar to verify your registration.
