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Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change in the Tropics (SEMCIT) and the Jinja Consensus
21 September 2007
A multi-year project developed by EARTH University and the Salzburg Seminar with the collaboration of Noragric, Agricultural University of Norway. (www.changetropics.org)
The Salzburg Seminar and EARTH University in collaboration with Noragric initiated a series of international seminars focusing on the importance of education, specifically tertiary agricultural education, to enhance sustainable development in the humid tropics. The tropics are both particularly rich in genetic resources and particularly fragile. They occur in developing countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. The first seminar in Austria in August 1999, identified the importance of changing the orientation of existing tertiary education systems in the tropics to meet the challenges of the new Century. The second seminar was held in Costa Rica in August 2000. At this seminar the characteristics of the leaders needed to meet these challenges were articulated and the participants also explored the experience of EARTH University in producing dedicated change agents. The third seminar in Jinja, Uganda was held in May 2002, and produced a broad consensus on the need to encourage the transformation of existing universities and of creating an African institution to implement a radical new approach to tertiary agricultural training and provide support to existing universities. A fourth session will be held in Thailand in October 2002 and the final seminar will be held in Norway in June 2003. NORAD and UNDP Capacity 21 actively support this seminar series.
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