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The industrialisation of agricultural activity has had a great impact on the environment and society the world over. In the rural environment the result has been a profound degradation of natural resources, the landscape and traditional agricultural ecosystems, along with a decline in farming's social and economic importance, which has led in turn to a decline in rural communities in Europe.
These tendencies have not been reversed in the last decades by corrective policies on agriculture and rural development, focusing on post-productivism and the multifunctionality of agriculture. Agroecology incorporates the growing role of farming in fostering the territorial and social cohesion of rural and peri-urban areas.
Within this dimension we include the following: policy on farming and rural development, the role of agricultural activity in peri-urban areas of the major metropolitan regions; the construction of alternative local food supply networks and access to productive resources (especially land, water, energy and genetic resources), the recovery of folk knowledge about the environment; and the recovery of self-esteem in rural and agricultural life, in the construction of symbolic contexts that are favourable to agroecology.
| Subject | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
Global Food System, Agroecology, and Food Sovereignty |
6 ECTS |
Obligatory |
Action-Research Methodologies |
3 ECTS |
Obligatory |
Traditional Agroecological Knowledge |
3 ECTS |
Obligatory |
Agroecology in Action: Application of Methodologies to Real Experiences |
12 ECTS |
Obligatory |
Final Project |
3 ECTS |
Obligatory |
Specific skills
Knowledge:
- KT01: Explain the transformations of agri-food systems from different theoretical approaches.
- KT02: Distinguish the various types of initiatives, models, and actions of Agroecological Local Development that are being promoted in Spain and Europe, both by social movements and public administrations.
- KT03: Identify the different procedures and techniques for agroecological local development.
Skills:
- ST01: Apply the participatory methodologies necessary for agroecological local development.
- ST02: Use the appropriate research techniques at each phase of a development process.
Competencies:
- CT01: Formulate territorial development proposals based on the logic of agroecological local development.
- CT02: Evaluate projects for the transformation of local agri-food systems based on the logic of agroecological local development.
Title obtained
Diploma of Specialization in Agroecological Local Development