Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

This article introduces the work of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and describes its interest in the application of distance learning strategies pertinent to the challenges of food security and rural development around the world. The article briefly reviews pertinent exa...

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Autores principales:	Scott McLean, Lavinia Gasperini, Stephen Rudgard
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2002
Materias:	food security rural development distance education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f35f3a54bc81454a89a202f3cf26da9a2021-12-02T18:03:27ZDistance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization10.19173/irrodl.v3i1.811492-3831https://doaj.org/article/f35f3a54bc81454a89a202f3cf26da9a2002-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/81https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This article introduces the work of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and describes its interest in the application of distance learning strategies pertinent to the challenges of food security and rural development around the world. The article briefly reviews pertinent examples of distance learning, both from the experience of FAO and elsewhere, and summarises a complex debate about the potential of distance learning in developing countries. The paper elaborates five practical suggestions for applying distance learning strategies to the challenges of food security and rural development. The purpose of publishing this article is both to disseminate our ideas about distance learning to interested professional and scholarly audiences around the world, and to seek feedback from those audiences.Scott McLeanLavinia GasperiniStephen RudgardAthabasca University Pressarticlefood securityrural developmentdistance educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2002)
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description	This article introduces the work of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and describes its interest in the application of distance learning strategies pertinent to the challenges of food security and rural development around the world. The article briefly reviews pertinent examples of distance learning, both from the experience of FAO and elsewhere, and summarises a complex debate about the potential of distance learning in developing countries. The paper elaborates five practical suggestions for applying distance learning strategies to the challenges of food security and rural development. The purpose of publishing this article is both to disseminate our ideas about distance learning to interested professional and scholarly audiences around the world, and to seek feedback from those audiences.
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title	Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
title_short	Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
title_full	Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
title_fullStr	Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
title_full_unstemmed	Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
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Distance Learning for Food Security and Rural Development: A Perspective from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

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