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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena has started today to train university teachers Chuka Kenyan and Ugandan Gulu innovative teaching techniques to put them into practice in schools UPCT agribusiness is driving in both African countries.
Coinciding with World Food Day, which commemorates the creation on Friday 16 70th anniversary of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), does just the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) is using these days facilities and staff for its production of Digital Content (CPDC) to teach these teachers handling multimedia educational tools and to believe with modern equipment Polytechnic teaching materials they will use their students.
The ultimate goal of this project development cooperation is to reduce food shortages by increasing productivity and marketing of local agriculture.
In February next year is expected to be put in place in both Kenya and Uganda, agribusiness centers UPCT drives.
"We have already acquired computer equipment and are expecting that classrooms are packed," says researcher UPCT Maria Dolores de Miguel, who heads the Acadia project, financed by the Edulink II EU program to promote development in Third World countries.
"We are preparing a training program on the needs we have detected in these countries and whose main lines will be new farming techniques to exploit its agricultural potential, logistics, marketing, management, innovation and food security," explains the UPCT professor, who along with other teachers of the Faculty of Business and the School of Agriculture, is recording video classes in English aimed at students of Chuka and Gulu universities and vocational training centers of both countries.
"We want to teach them that they learn to create a sustainable and self-sufficient agriculture.
Today the fields are not efficient, so that young people migrate to cities and abroad.
Agriculture has just introduced its irrigation and is focused on export products, such as tea or coffee.
Their crops are of low productivity and have large transport and distribution problems, "says teacher agricultural problems in both countries.
Promotion of cooperatives
Cartagena Polytechnic also contributes to reducing hunger and poverty by promoting cooperatives, "a factor of key economic development, according to the UN," says the researcher Narciso Arcas, which collaborates with the DIRENA IMIDA project to boost horticulture In colombia.
UPCT also trains Latin American students in the Master of Agribusiness Management.
Source: UPCT
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