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Sustainable agricultural online course development framework for community-based transformative learning
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Sustainable agricultural online course development framework for community-based transformative learning

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Sustainable agricultural online course development framework for community-based transformative learning

Thandanani Miy2022-11-15T18:49:08+02:00November 15th, 2022|Uncategorized, Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

This paper examines the change drivers and challenges involved in the transitioning of the Water Research Commission’s Amanzi for Food training of agricultural educators and farmers’ face-to-face co-engaged course to an online course aligned with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (www-amanziforfood-co-za-amanziforfood.sbox.datafree.co). The study drew on system thinking to analyse components within the course development activity […]

Relating, connecting and deepening collective work on water for food in times of drought

Elizabeth Fletcher2017-09-15T10:20:34+02:00February 8th, 2016|Uncategorized, Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

“We are very happy that we can now harvest water using the amadanyana (farm dams); we can now water vegetables in our garden with less effort” remarked the elderly leader of a cooperative garden with mostly women farmers in Alice in the Nkonkobe Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape. How did they get to this […]

For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for us

Elizabeth Fletcher2017-09-15T10:20:34+02:00September 21st, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments

“Days are numbered”, Mr Zephaniah Phiri Maseko would say as his biological clock’s ticking grew louder by the day. Sadly, and unknown to him, the 1^st of September 2015 was to be the last of the numbered days, the day he took his last breath. The internationally acclaimed water harvester from Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe passed […]