Kostas Baginetas
Decentrailsed Administration of Thessaly & Central Greece, Directorate of Rural Affairs of Central Greece, Agronomist (2007-)
University of Nottingham, School of Geography, PhD in Interdisciplinary Development of Agro-environmental Sustainability Indicators (2001-2005)
Imperial College London, School of Agricultural Sciences, MSc in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (2000-2001)
Imperial College London, DIC (2000-2001)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Agronomy, BSc in Agronomy (1994-2000, 5 years course)
Address: Lamia, Greece
University of Nottingham, School of Geography, PhD in Interdisciplinary Development of Agro-environmental Sustainability Indicators (2001-2005)
Imperial College London, School of Agricultural Sciences, MSc in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (2000-2001)
Imperial College London, DIC (2000-2001)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Agronomy, BSc in Agronomy (1994-2000, 5 years course)
Address: Lamia, Greece
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εκπαίδευσης, φοιτητές και μελετητές θεμάτων οργάνωσης
και διοίκησης της εκπαίδευσης και εκπαιδευτικής ηγεσίας.
Σκοπός του είναι να αποτελέσει την απαρχή για ανάληψη
συναφών ερευνητικών εγχειρημάτων και την ανάπτυξη
ενός πλαισίου διαλόγου, προβληματισμού και επιχειρη-
μάτων σε μια διαφορετική και πολλά υποσχόμενη προ-
σέγγιση της ηγεσίας στην εκπαίδευση.
Παρατίθενται θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις των εννοιών
της αειφορικής ανάπτυξης και της αειφορικής ηγεσίας.
Ταυτόχρονα, οι συγγραφείς επιδόθηκαν σε εμπειρική
έρευνα επί του θέματος. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, τα αντίστοιχα
κεφάλαια αφορούν σε τρεις διαφορετικές έρευνες που
παρουσιάστηκαν σε συνέδρια και εκδόθηκαν σε αντίστοιχα πρακτικά.
The book is aimed at teachers, school principals, education
officials, as well as educational management and
leadership students and scholars. It is intended to point
the start for taking relevant research initiatives towards
sustaining a framework for dialogue, reflection and arguments
in terms of a different and promising approach to educational
leadership.
It includes listed theoretical approaches of the concepts
of sustainable development and sustainable leadership.
At the same time, the authors have engaged in empirical
research on the subject. More specifically, the respective
chapters relate to three qualitative studies presented
at conferences and respectively published in their
proceedings.
Through targeted policies, the Municipality can make the most efficient use of its limited budgetary resources in maintaining a sustainable agriculture.
Μέσω στοχευμένων πολιτικών ο Δήμος μπορεί να προβεί στην πλέον αποδοτική χρήση των περιορισμένων δημοσιονομικών πόρων του, διατηρώντας μια βιώσιμη γεωργία.
Over the past 50 years, in the era of the Green Revolution, the agricultural achievements were such that allowed the agricultural ecosystems to become incredibly good at producing food.
However, although this intensification of agriculture lead to such increases in food production that secured enough food for today’s world population, on the other hand it had biological and environmental consequences that raised concerns over the long-term sustainability of these agricultural practices.
The reconciliation of these two needs - increased world food production with greater protection of the environment for the future – is a major challenge for science in the 21st century.
The paradigm of Sustainable Agriculture can contribute in meeting this challenge and the development and effective implementation of sustainable agricultural systems can help minimize the environmental impacts of world agriculture.
Within this context, much of the current debate about the nature and potential of sustainable agriculture centres around definitions. However, although agricultural scientists have been very prolific in producing definitions of the concept of sustainable agriculture, based on the particular knowledge of their individual discipline, little attention have been given to the meaning that farmers ascribe to this term.
In this poster I will be presenting the farmers’ understandings of the meaning of the term of “sustainable agriculture” and their perceptions of the practice of a “sustainable agricultural system”.
When talking of farming the word “soil” comes naturally to mind. Implicitly many people link the practice of farming inextricably with the existence of soil and consequently, farmers are seen as the keepers of soil. Indeed, it is almost inconceivable to imagine a farmer as anything else than a steward of the soil. Nevertheless, as much as farmers are considered to be the guardians of the soil their own moral principles and concepts, their own value systems and their own way of thinking affect directly the way they practice agriculture.
Agriculture, of course, is a production activity (production being defined as the intentional transformation of materials from a less valued to a more valued state). As a result, farmers’ stewardship is eventually a production ethic, for it is a part and parcel of a way of life organised around the production of food and fibre. Since, essentially, the quality of a soil is that which determines the production of food and fibre and so ultimately the nature of plant ecosystems and the capacity of land to support animal life and human society, understanding farmers’ production ethics – particularly those related to soil management - is a crucial part of achieving a more sustainable way of agricultural production.
This paper presents and analyses the “soil ethics” of three farmers practicing three different agricultural systems. In particular, the views and the moral standings regarding soil of a conventional, an organic and a biodynamic farmer will be compared. Through this comparison, functional insights will be gained regarding their individual agrarian values and particularly regarding the way they approach and utilize soil in their everyday practice of farming.