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Initiative

Introduction to Agriculture Programme

Introduction to Agriculture Programme
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ORGANIZATION EARTH

ORGANIZATION EARTH aims to develop environmental and social intelligence. It is an active community of people through collective and creative activities and educational structures.

 

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Objective Action

Through practical and theoretical learning for unemployed citizens to basic organic farming practices enable them:

A) Lifelong learning by developing new knowledge and skills. 
B) Modernization of the primary production sector. 
C) Social integration and collective work.
D) Contact with the earth and its products.
E) The cultivation of a new professional career.
F) Contribute to the recovery of the Greek countryside.

 

Target Audience

To unemployed citizens who decided to move to the province and to take care of the land and its products.

 

Duration

2013 - 2014


Description

The course lasted for nine weeks. It was divided into 75% field exercise and 25% theory.


Impact on Society

470 unemployed citizens attended the program. Half of them relocated and started their own business in the Greek province, while almost all engaged in small-scale farming on their balcony or terrace.



Initiative Location

Athens


Working with Organization

Stavros Niarchos Foundation


Workers Participation


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