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Introduction of agroheritage concepts into higher education agenda for raising awareness and capacity of future agriculturists for conservation of this heritage

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-TR01-KA203-075715
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for higher education Funder Contribution: 211,675 EUR

Introduction of agroheritage concepts into higher education agenda for raising awareness and capacity of future agriculturists for conservation of this heritage

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Agroheritage is the collection of local plant varieties (landraces), local animal breeds, traditional agricultural techniques, uses and knowledge developed by people through ages. These have been the basis of modern agriculture and medicine. Due to their high genetic diversity of landraces, they have a huge variety in shape, color, taste, nutritional value, pathogen/disease resistance and climate adaptation. These properties have been used to develope modern cultivars. Similarly, the diversity of local animal breeds are being used for modern livestock breeding. In contrast to the crucial importance of these agroheritage elements for human survival as being food, raw material for clothing, construction and health; instensive use of modern plant cultivars and livestocks have resulted in discontinuation of these elements. In other words, traditional seeds, animals and knowledge are being lost day by day. So, genepol required for sustainable agriculture has been diminishing. This situation has been emphasized by many international organizations such as FAO, UNDP and EU, and have been proposed to take action on awareness raising, encouragement and support of local people to continue/restart planting/rearing landraces. The most effective way to conserve agroheritage is to show people that they are useful and valuable. This fits within the scope of the work of agricultural proffesionals. Therefore introduction of this concept into higher education agenda will built a base for sustainable investment for agriculture. The more qualified agriculturalists the more effective he/she is in the agricultural community. The objective of the project is to offer a comprehensive course curriculum with free online learning material supported by hands-on trainings to agricultural students and this will acquire awareness and skills of them for revealing, conserving, reproducing, disseminating and promoting agroheritage in their future proffesional life. Another objective is to increase students’ knowledge and capacity by presenting them international information, examples, best experiences and interactions. So that they can lead farmers by being innovative, creative and cooperative in utilizing agroheritage. Although the end user of this course will be undergraduate agricultural students, everyone having internet acces can utilize online learning materials. In the Project, the educational curriculum framework will be established by literature survey on agroheritage and by exchanging ideas, information and discussions with stakeholders via workshops, questioneers and interviews. The next step is to prepare the learning materials of this curriculum. Video lectures, videos of case studies and best practices, oral history and interviews and other information related to agroheritage will be produced as field study. Other training resources (excersizes, quizzes, homeworks, exams, evaluation questioneer), an e-book and a virtual learning map will be compiled with literature surveys and gathered information from field studies. To support the online learning materials, hands on training applications are planned: an agroheritage permenant education exhibition with physical objects and digital means will be prepared for examining agroheritage elements complementary to the course. The other complemantary one is a proposal a technical visit schedule (to national gene banks, herbariums, best practices in the farm) and a volunteer summer internship program for training these in the field. All these outputs of the project – curriculum, e-learning materials and exhibitions – will be designed for longterm use. By opening the educational material freely to public via internet also in English will result in an international permanent progress even long after. As a result, this learning and training opportunity will serve to undergraduate agricultural students to get skilled in agroheritage matters so that they can lead agricultural community in their future proffesional life. The ultimate expected impacts of the project are increased awarenes of the community on agroheritage which will result in taking action on conservation and continous use of its elements for future food safety, agricultural sustainability and human health.

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