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| A new generation of farmers - Editorial | 4-5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| Each new generation of farmers faces the challenge of trying to create a livelihood from the resources available to them. These resources are the result of the physical and social legacies of the past... |  |
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| Youth and rural livelihoods | 6-8
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| Kevin Waldie |
| A major barrier for youth to build their livelihoods on their own terms is the fact that rural development professionals often do not have a clear understanding of how young people in rural areas use ... | |
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| Growing up in the REAL world | 9-11
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| Andrew Bartlett and Marut Jatiket |
| REAL Education is an integrated learning process in which school children explore what is happening on local farms, gain an understanding of ecology, and develop critical thinking skills with respect ... | |
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| Youth and research: experiences from Honduras and Colombia | 12-13
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| Jannie Goedkoop, Maria Cecilia Roa, José Ignacio Sanz, Merida Barahona, Julia Menéndez |
| The youth have much to contribute to any community, and this article describes wide-ranging projects which benefitted from the involvement of talented youth in rural areas. Various groups of young peo... | |
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| Children and the red hairy caterpillar offensive | 14-15
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| K. Suresh Kanna, G. Ravikumar |
| The red hairy caterpillar is a persistent pest in the dryland farming communties of the Deccan plateau in India. In this article we learn about how children engaged in a campaign to create awareness a... | |
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| Primary schools as catalysts for change | 16-17
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| George Odhiambo and Damas Masologo |
| After extensive consultation with local communities and government agencies in Tanzania, FARM-Africa has launched the Babati Agricultural and Environmental Education Project. This project uses the pri... | |
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| Rediscovering cultural roots: children and biodiversity in the Andes | 18-20
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| Elena Pardo Castillo and Rocio Achahui Quenti |
| In the traditional Andean societies, culture and agriculture are closely linked and reflect the richness and diversity of the natural landscape. Today, however, the Quechua and Aymara peasant communit... | |
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| The Pathfinder Academy | 21
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| Machinga Amwai, Joshua |
| The Pathfinder Academy is an initiative started by an NGO in western Kenya aimed at linking schools, homes and communities in the the promotion of sustainable natural resource management. The local sc... | |
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| Young farmers in Europe: opting for innovation | 22-24
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| Sabine de Rooij |
| Many young farmers in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe are turning away from the risks and insecurity involved in committing themselves to the capital intensive industrial farming model. They a... | |
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| The future of farming in Wales | 25
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| Gerald Collins |
| Wales is a small predominantly rural country. In 1994, there were 63 000 farmers, but by 2001 this figure had dropped to 56 000. Ths pattern is common to developed economied where technological develo... | |
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| Namma Dhwani: our voices | 26-28
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| John Anthony |
| In rural India, as in many other countries, opportunities for children and young people to learn about the world outside their village, or even to keep in touch with the traditions and current events ... | |
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| Wild plants: a gift from Mother Nature | 29
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| Hanny L. van de Lande |
| In many poorer families in Surinam, children have to cook rice and vegetables for the family when they get home from school. Efforts have been made to grow rather than buy these vegetables, and this a... | |
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| Marketing local produce | 30
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| Roberta Williams |
| The Gilbert Agricultural and Research Centre is a rural, church-based NGO and enterprise trianing facility on the Eastern caribbean island of Antigua Barbuda. Initially, the centre aimed to train youn... | |
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| Field notes | 31
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| A long search, by Dorcas Mbozi from Zambia | |
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| Networking | 32-33
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| Sources | 34-33
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| New Books | 35
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| Building a future in organic farming | 36
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| Eric N. Mwaura |
| The Kenya Institute of Organic farming, KIOF, is an NGO that focuses on the sustainable improvement of the livelihood of small scale farmers through organic farming. Over the years, KIOF has establish... | |
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