Food, Agriculture and the Environment 2011-2013
Thank you very much for allowing me to participate in this course; it has been very valuable for me. I work on a university campus in the rural area of Guatemala; my job is to encourage entrepreneurs inside and outside of the university, with commercial ideas and crop producers. Nowadays, I am coordinating a project to help these people to develop their business, but the people dedicated to agribusiness are facing many of the problems that are mentioned in the course material, such as poor soil, bacteria, environmental troubles, food security, and pollution. My plan for incorporating this into my work is: to discuss this subject with my university colleagues, so that we can to teach our students about how we can improve rural development. We can also make some projects to teach agricultural workers how to turn to organic agriculture or natural farming, and how agro-forestry can help them solve problems of water and flooding, and can help them economically as well. I am very enthusiastic about all I have learned with this course and all the impact we can have in rural communities in Guatemala. Jacqueline Landaverde, Director of Centro de Recursos para Emprendedores en Acción, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
