Promoting self-sufficiency by implementing and assessing effectiveness of Best environmental Management Practices in primary schools in order to ensure food security in rural communities close to EARTH University campus.
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Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Environmental Education to mitigate Climate Change
1. EARTH UNIVERSITY
Sustainable Urban
Agriculture and
Environmental
Education to mitigate
Climate Change
Participation at
Clinton Global
Initiative
Johanny Pérez
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4. EARTH UNIVERSITY
Our Vision
Our actions are directed towards building a
future in which the humid tropics and its
communities achieve social, economic and
environmental well being
Our Mission
Prepare leaders with ethical values to
contribute to the sustainable development of
the humid tropics and to construct a
prosperous and just society
6. Core Principle
Promoting self-
sufficiency by
implementing and
assessing
effectiveness of Best
environmental
Management
Practices in primary
schools in order to
ensure food security
in rural communities
close to EARTH
University campus.
7. Objectives
To train primary’ school students in sustainable
agriculture, waste management and
environmental conservation
To motivate young people to take action in the
order to eradicate poverty and mitigate climate
change.
12. Rural Schools
El Peje
Germania
San Martín
El Carmen
Cerca San Martín
13. Process for making CHANGE!
Module 3:
Module 2: Solid
Module 1: Periurban and Module 4:
Waste
Awareness Sustainable Climate Change
Management
Agriculture
14. Permanent Education Program
Community service coordinator
Carbon Neutral coordinator
Professor of Forestry
Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at EARTH
15. Trained students at EARTH University
Faculty and admnistrators involved
Schools trained
Agroecological groups strengthened in rural schools
Planted trees
CO2 sequestrated (Vochysia ferruginea): 2.76 ton CO2/ year
workshops
recycled solid wastes