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Open and Distance Non-Formal Education in Developing Countries. SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education
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Latchem, Colin – SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education, 2018
This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years. It includes many instructive and inspiring examples of how international agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, USAID and the Commonwealth of Learning and national providers are using…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Nonformal Education, Developing Nations
Two Papers on Canadian Indians; Education and Economic Development: The Case of Indian Reserves in Canada. [and] The Capitalization of a Traditional Pursuit: The Case of Wild Rice in Manitoba. Center for Settlement Studies, Series 5: Occasional Papers Nos. 5 and 6.
Deprez, Paul; Lithman, Yngve Georg – 1973
The first paper aims to give a certain relativity to the significance of education and to indicate the limitations of any educational effort. The thinking underlying the current approach to the economic development of native communities and reserves is discussed as well as the implications and consequences of such thinking. It is argued that the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, American Indian Reservations
The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy.
Thompson, Charles D., Jr., Ed.; Wiggins, Melinda F., Ed. – 2002
Since 1993, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has placed nearly 300 college students into summer internships with farmworker agencies in North and South Carolina, where students work alongside farmworkers struggling to improve their living and working conditions. Because of significant gaps in academic materials related to farmworkers in the…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Agribusiness, Elementary Secondary Education
Grass Roots: The Universe of Home.
Gruchow, Paul – 1995
This book consists of 17 essays about living with the land and the importance of reinvigorating the values of rural life. The essays include personal reflections about growing up in rural Minnesota and opinions about the state of neglected rural towns and people. The author grew up during the 1950s on an 80-acre farm that his family rented in…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Cultural Maintenance, Economic Development
Grain Handling and Storage.
Harris, Troy G.; Minor, John – 1979
This text for a secondary- or postecondary-level course in grain handling and storage contains ten chapters. Chapter titles are (1) Introduction to Grain Handling and Storage, (2) Elevator Safety, (3) Grain Grading and Seed Identification, (4) Moisture Control, (5) Insect and Rodent Control, (6) Grain Inventory Control, (7) Elevator Maintenance,…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Crop Processing Occupations, Distributive Education