Expanding the boundaries of beginning farmer training and program development: A review of contemporary initiatives to cultivate a new generation of American farmers
Expanding the boundaries of beginning farmer training and program development: A review of contemporary initiatives to cultivate a new generation of American farmers
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扩大初级农民培训和项目开发的范围：对培养新一代美国农民的当代举措的回顾
DOI：
10.5304/jafscd.2010.011.010
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2010
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P. Lillard
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作者：
K. Niewolny;P. Lillard
在美国开始农民培训和项目开发是农业、食品系统和社区发展研究和实践中最重要但却知之甚少的领域之一。本文对近代农民教育规划形成的社会背景进行了回顾，旨在阐明其发展、目的和未来轨迹。我们提供了几个最佳做法的例证来支持我们的主要观点，即针对初学农民的成人农业教育正在采取新的形式和模式，以支持和维持新一代农民。因此，它为产生和交流可持续农业的信息和知识创造了新的机会。虽然这些例子看起来很有希望，但文章最后建议研究人员和实践者扩大什么是对对可持续食品系统模式和实践感兴趣的初级农民有意义的教育的边界。
Beginning farmer training and program development in United States is one of the most significant yet poorly understood areas of agriculture, food system, and community development research and practice. This article offers a review of the social context in forming recent beginning farmer educational programming in order to shed light on its development, purpose, and future trajectory. We provide several illustrations of best practices to support our main point that adult agricultural education for beginning farmers is taking on new forms and patterns to support and sustain a new generation of famers. As such it is vitalizing new opportunities to generate and exchange information and knowledge for sustainable agriculture. While these examples appear promising, the article concludes with recommendations for researchers and practitioners to expand the boundaries of what constitutes meaningful education for beginning farmers who are interested in sustainable food system models and practices.