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With the continuous changes of farming methods and policies, it is crucial that agricultural education evolves with them, pushing towards innovations rather than accepting conventions. This book is a call to arms for educators to prepare for the 21st Century and an entirely new set of possibilities.
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This book offers an academic programs approach to rethinking the future mission of land grant colleges and universities and presents a philosophical framework for making curricular changes in all of higher education in agriculture to better prepare graduates for the future. Here "agriculture" is understood to mean the entire scope of the life-support system that includes food and fiber, natural resources, and environmental integrity and the social and economic systems that relate to these areas. And at the heart of the ideas presented here is a proposed redefinition of higher education in agriculture as "the educational, scientific, and scholarly framework for the understanding, development, management, and use of biologically and ecologically based systems and relevant human resources systems for the benefit of human and natural societies." It is an invaluable resource for building strong, vital higher education programs in agriculture for the future.
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