Call for Papers: RGS IBG Annual Conference 2019



Session title: Transforming Agricultural Learning: from troubled pasts to pedagogies of hope



Sponsored by the Food Geographies Working Group Session

Conveners: Hannah Pitt ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Alice Taherzadeh ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University.



Any hope of sustainable food futures requires suitable systems of education and training to support agricultural production. Traditional state-led agricultural extension has received declining public investment, and been criticised for failing to address the needs of sustainable, alternative, localised agricultural practices. The agricultural knowledge base in Europe is also troubled by an aging farmer population, and lack of new entrants. However, community food and farming models, organisations, and unions are attracting a new generation interested in sustainable production, and enhancing their knowledge through horizontal or place-based learning. Innovative pedagogical approaches include popular and political education, those inspired by indigenous cultures, use of online platforms and open-source knowledge models. These sessions focus on actors hoping for sustainable, just, regenerative agricultural practices, and their learning practices. We are interested in case studies and theoretical perspectives which shed light on the challenges around learning in the context of agricultural production, and potential solutions.



Questions might include:

* What can be learned from the tensions between traditional and alternative models of agricultural learning and training?

* How can new entrants be attracted into an agricultural sector promoting environmental, social and cultural sustainability?

* What hope for reviving state support for generating and extending agricultural knowledge?



Abstracts of 200 words should be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by end of the 7th February 2019.



The conference takes place in London Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 August 2019. Further information: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/


Further information on the Food Geographies Working Group: https://foodgeographies.wordpress.com/




Dr Hannah Pitt
Sêr Cymru II Research Fellow  / Sêr Cymru II  Cymrawd Ymchwil
Sustainable Places Research Institute / Sefydliad Ymchwil Mannau Cynaliadwy
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
33 Park Place / 33 Plas y Parc
Cardiff / Caerdydd
CF10 3BA
Tel /  Ffôn: 029 208 79632
Email / Ebost: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/sustainableplaces/

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The University welcomes correspondence in Welsh or English / Mae'r Brifysgol yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg neu'n Saesneg.



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