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Family and organic farming. New apprenticeship through m-learning
CRISTINA AMARO DA COSTA1 , PAULA CORREIA1, HELENA ESTEVES CORREIA1, RAQUEL P. F. GUINÉ1, JOÃO PAULO GOUVEIA1, PEDRO RODRIGUES1 , DANIELA TEIXEIRA1, LUIS TOURINO2, MOISÉS CASTRO2, SALVATORI BASILE3
1Superior Agrarian School, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal, [email protected]
2ESTRATEGIA Y ORGANIZACIÓN, S.A. – EOSA. España3BIOCERT, Italy
Practitioners' Track
Peru
Madagascar
Japan
Georgia
Montenegro
Austria
570 million farms in the World
family farms 88%
worlds’ food 70%
40%
family farms 97%
26%
12 million farms in Europe
68%
depend on family farms
utilized rural area
rural population
Some data about family farms…
29.2% Spain
Portugal 80.0%
45.2% Italy
% of the territory that are rural regions
30.9 ha Spain
12.0 ha Portugal
14.4 ha Italy
average farm size
21% Spain
38% Portugal
31% Italy
Rural population
Percentage of farms by size class
PortugalItaly Spain
in Italy, the smallest farms are located in
the South in Portugal, the
smallest farms are located in the
North
48.9% Spain
50.9% Portugal
47.9% Italy
Percentage of family labor in agriculture
1
3.5
Family workers
Hired workers
19% Spain
21% Portugal
13% Italy
Percentage of full time farmers
Age structure of therural population
23% elderly people
63%14% younger people (<14 y)
working-age
Percentage of farm managers with agricultural basic training
13.8% Spain
10.3% Portugal
8.1% Italy
Percentage of farm managers with agricultural full training
3.5% Spain
1.5% Portugal
1.5% Italy
Percentage of farm managers with only practical training
Spain 84.7%
Portugal 88.2%
Italy 88.8%
Some data about family farmers…
Percentage of adults participating in lifelong
education and training, in rural areas
8.4% Spain
7.7% Portugal
5.6% Italy
Evolution of the number of organic and conversion farms
Evolution of the area under organic farming and conversion area
Organic and non-organic farmers age
Building organic bridges between traditional systems – family farms -
and future – organic family farming
Education and training is a challenge to family and organic farmers…
• knowledge• skills• inovation
healthier and more nutritive
foodsoil quality
pesticide and
fertilizers reduction
use of local seeds and
native breeds
consummer confidence
pesticide diseases
and accidents reduction
employment
Benefits
functional biodiversity
The project ECONewFARMERS is funded under the programme Leonardo da Vinci - Projects of Transfer of Innovation (2013-1-PT1-LEO05-15535 - ECONewFARMERs Building a future for new farmers in ecological farming through vocational training) and includes partners from Hungary, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Slovakia and the United Kingdom