WINTER SCHOOL DAY BY DAY CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES



WINTER SCHOOL DAY BY DAY CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES

From 20 to 30 of January 2020
Baraka Agricultural College (Kenya)
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Ubicazione: C56, Molo, Kenya

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Looking for two leaves and a bud. Participants to the 1st winter-school in Agri-Food choices meet the Kenyan tea farmers

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(Baraka Agricoltural College, 25/01/2020 – Anna F. – Giulia Z.) The day starts with another exciting trip: the Baraka Agricultural College team gets ready to know a tea processing factory and meet small tea farmers. Trying to win against the time, we leave the Baraka Agricultural College earlier than the scheduled departure to make the most of the limited time available in these rich lands. After two hours of travelling on the college bus surrounded by green landscapes, the Winterschool team reaches the Kiptagich Tea Factory. A team of proud employers of the Kiptagich Factory is waiting for the students, so dressing them with a white coat and a mask, and divided them in two groups: the participants are now ready for the factory tour. The two groups get to see all the steps of the tea processing. The process starts with the collected leaves, 65% of which are coming from small and middle scale farmers and 35% from fields owned by the factory. The factory decides the price according...
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Sharing is caring. Winter School in Agri-Food choices a chance to meet communities, values, landscapes and knowledge toward food.

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(Baraka Agricultural College – Molo – Kenya, 23 January 2020 – Giulia Z. & Anna F.) How can psychological perspective help to understand and modify the perception, attitudes and behavior toward environmental resources? Simona Sacchi , associate professor of Social Psychology at the University of Milano Bicocca , suggests that there are two main directions which can guide attitudes, believes and values: a top-down approach which is based on three values that forge behaviors (biospheric, altruistic and egoistic value) or a bottom-up process in which behaviors could be forged by perception. Talking about enviromental dimensions, it is necessary to take into account the moral behavior and the moral dilemma which could be faced through two main processes: deontology (when an action is based on internal moral) and consequentialism (when there is analysis of costs/benefits). But which is the best way to communicate environmental change? Could we use moralization in order to persude ...
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A road to food sovereignty: from productivism to biomass refinery

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(Baraka Agricoltural College, 22/01/2020 - Ruth M. and Anita D.) Yesterday we listened to a lesson by Raffaele Matacena, who talked about the development of the global food system and the current challenge to sustainability and food sovereignty. In short we can say that food system is dynamic and it has changed over the years, driven by different factors. Three movements appeared over the years: Productivism was driven by the principle that every country should produce what is best at and import all the rest, instead of try to produce everything. These system is found in the fact that exist few companies with a lot of power which drive the system and suffocate the small producers. During the 1980s a new system appeared: the post productivism , based on control and regulation through the request for certification about the origin of food. During this period people developed the need to know and understand the production process and this lead to a more regulated food system esp...
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