Category: agriculture

Plovdiv Agrosilver Value meeting

Last Monday October 31st the tenth consortium project meeting of Agrosilver Value took place in EcologyKM premises located in Plovdiv (Bulgaria). Some of the highlighted conclusions from the meeting are:

  • It is expected that all the videos are visible on the platform in high quality by the end of the year.
  • During 2023 firsts six months the pilot courses will be developed in all the participant countries.
  • New content is expected to be uploaded to the platform as the project length has been extended some months.

Agrosilver project “Integrating silver knowledge from agroecology into the VET systems” is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and involve the cooperation of partners from Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, France, Malta and Estonia during the years 2020 to 2023.

The project develops video resources, video training material and video tools for farmers and teachers interested in increasing their knowledge on Agroecology.

More information in www.agrosilver.eu

FOODTANK: “New Reports Make the Case for Food Systems as a Climate Solution”

“Food and agriculture systems are on the agenda at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP27) this year for the first time. In addition to more than 300 live events, new reports from WWF, IPES-Food, and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food are helping to prioritize food systems at these critical conversations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt”

Here you can read this interesting article published in Foodtank.com

Agrosilver video: organic cherry

As you know, in this site you can find video resources, video training material and video tools which will allow you to increase your knowledge and also improve the way you teach other people about agro ecology. In our video platform you can find a lot of videos and here you can see one of them about organic cherry in Spain. The Experience of an ecological farmer with a long history in agroecology in the Valle del Jerte region, the basis of his management, the improvement of soil fertility.

https://videoplatform.agrosilver.eu/videos/7

Foodtank: “Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions”

“At a recent European regional dialogue, policymakers, researchers, farmers, civil society organization leaders, and others gathered to discuss “The Politics of Knowledge,” a new compendium from the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and agroecology’s role in helping to solve interconnected global crises”. Here you can read this interesting article:

Second Transnational Project Meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus

The second of the September meetings was a meeting of the VIDEOTEACH project consortium. This time the partners met in the capital of the Republic of Cyprus – Nicosia.

The main point of this meeting was the finalization of the first project result, which is the creation of a competence profile for future video teachers, based on EU qualification structures and quality principles. This project deliverable is now coming to the final stage and we will be pleased to present it to you soon.

We have also used the meeting to not only plan, but actually schedule the topics and tasks related to the second and third deliverables of this project, which are the development of a methodology to create an analysis of teachers’ video skills, competence recognition, and training needs identification and a follow-up online video course.

INQUIRER.NET: “Agroecology helps farmers cushion climate impact

Here you are another interesting article about agroecology and the climate change. You can read on this link from iquirer.net:

Agrosilver meeting in Agen

Last Monday July 11th, in the Agrosilver project context, the ninth meeting of the project took place in the Chamber of Agriculture Lot-et-Garonne, Agen (France). Between the participants we could find representatives of all the countries involved in the project.

Regarding the results expected in a short-medium term after the meeting can be highlighted:

– The video platform will soon reach more than 100 videos in more than 7 languages
– All the videos will have original language subtitles
– The videos will be available to be played with subtitles in more than 20 languages

Agrosilver project “Integrating silver knowledge from agroecology into the VET systems” is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and involve the cooperation of partners from Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, France and Malta during the years 2020 to 2023.

The project develops video resources, video training material and video tools for farmers and teachers interested in increasing their knowledge on Agroecology.

For more information: Agrosilver

RESILENCE.ORG: “Could agroecology save Colombia’s farming crisis?”

Here you are an interesting article about the agroecology as a way to save Colombia’s farming crisis.