Farming systems education: Case study of Swedish test pilots

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-59

  Salomonsson, Lennart ^a   Nilsson, Anna ^a   Palmer, Sofia ^a   Roigart, Adam ^a   Francis, Charles ^b,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Action learning; Experiential education; Rural development; Sustainable agriculture; Sweden; Viet Nam

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; AGRONOMY; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CURRICULUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FARMING SYSTEM; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LEARNING; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SWEDEN; VIET NAM;

EID: 67649643460     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742170508002408     Document Type: Article

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