From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change
ABSTRACTClimate change represents one of the biggest threats to agricultural productivity around the world. In the tropics, extreme climate and pest and disease outbreaks represent one of the biggest climate change threats to smallholder farmers. Understanding smallholder farmers’ educational needs...
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| author | Nicole Colón Carrión Sofía Macchiavelli Girón |
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| description | ABSTRACTClimate change represents one of the biggest threats to agricultural productivity around the world. In the tropics, extreme climate and pest and disease outbreaks represent one of the biggest climate change threats to smallholder farmers. Understanding smallholder farmers’ educational needs and increasing access to information and awareness of climate change through education and training are key first steps to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. In a primary effort to increase accessible training and education to these communities, we developed a plant pathology lesson plan. The lesson plan introduces basic concepts in plant pathology and disease management using diverse educational activities focused on experiential and collaborative learning. This lesson plan may have implications in enhancing farmers’ adaptive capacity and increasing accessible education to underrepresented farming communities around the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9946f34990334811a268117f121b2eed2023-12-14T14:01:04ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education1935-78771935-78852023-12-0124310.1128/jmbe.00090-23From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate changeNicole Colón Carrión0Sofía Macchiavelli Girón1School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USAAgricultural Extension Service, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto RicoABSTRACTClimate change represents one of the biggest threats to agricultural productivity around the world. In the tropics, extreme climate and pest and disease outbreaks represent one of the biggest climate change threats to smallholder farmers. Understanding smallholder farmers’ educational needs and increasing access to information and awareness of climate change through education and training are key first steps to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. In a primary effort to increase accessible training and education to these communities, we developed a plant pathology lesson plan. The lesson plan introduces basic concepts in plant pathology and disease management using diverse educational activities focused on experiential and collaborative learning. This lesson plan may have implications in enhancing farmers’ adaptive capacity and increasing accessible education to underrepresented farming communities around the world.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00090-23climate changeoutreach educationsmallholder farmersplant pathology |
| spellingShingle | Nicole Colón Carrión Sofía Macchiavelli Girón From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education climate change outreach education smallholder farmers plant pathology |
| title | From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change |
| title_full | From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change |
| title_fullStr | From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change |
| title_short | From the classroom to the farm: a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers’ education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change |
| title_sort | from the classroom to the farm a lesson plan that promotes smallholder farmers education and training about plant pathology in the context of climate change |
| topic | climate change outreach education smallholder farmers plant pathology |
| url | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00090-23 |
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