Practitioners' Track
Family and organic farming.
New apprenticeship through
m-learning
CRISTINA AMARO DA COSTA1 , PAULA CORREIA1, HELENA ESTEVES
CORREIA1, RAQUEL P. F. GUINÉ1, JOÃO PAULO GOUVEIA1, PEDRO
RODRIGUES1 , DANIELA TEIXEIRA1, LUIS TOURINO2, MOISÉS CASTRO2,
SALVATORI BASILE3
1Superior
Agrarian School, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu,
Portugal, amarocosta@esav.ipv.pt
2ESTRATEGIA Y ORGANIZACIÓN, S.A. – EOSA. España
3BIOCERT, Italy
Austria
Georgia
Japan
Montenegro
Madagascar
Peru
Some data about
family farms…
family farms 88%
570 million
farms in the
World
worlds’ food
40%
70%
depend on
family farms
family farms 97%
26%
utilized
rural area
rural
population
12 million
farms in
Europe
68%
29.2% Spain
% of the territory
that are rural
regions
Portugal 80.0%
45.2% Italy
21% Spain
Rural
population
38% Portugal
31% Italy
30.9 ha Spain
12.0 ha Portugal
14.4 ha Italy
average
farm size
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Percentage of farms by size class
 in Italy, the smallest
farms are located in
the South
 in Portugal, the
smallest farms
are located in the
North
48.9% Spain
Percentage of
family labor in
agriculture
50.9% Portugal
47.9% Italy
19% Spain
21% Portugal
13%
Percentage of
full time
farmers
3.5
Italy
1
Family Hired
workers workers
Some data about family farmers…
23% elderly people
63%
workingage
14% younger people (<14 y)
Age structure of the
rural population
Percentage of adults
participating in lifelong
education and training, in
rural areas
13.8% Spain
10.3% Portugal
8.1% Italy
3.5% Spain
1.5% Portugal
1.5% Italy
8.4% Spain
Spain 84.7%
7.7% Portugal
Portugal 88.2%
5.6% Italy
Italy 88.8%
Percentage of
farm
managers
with
agricultural
basic training
Percentage of
farm managers
with
agricultural full
training
Percentage of
farm
managers
with only
practical
training
Evolution of the number of
organic and conversion farms
Evolution of the area under
organic farming and
conversion area
Organic and
non-organic
farmers age
Education and training is a challenge
to family and organic farmers…
Building organic bridges between traditional systems – family
and future – organic family farming
• knowledge
• skills
• inovation
farms -
Benefits
soil
quality
healthier
and more
nutritive
food
pesticide
and
fertilizers
reduction
pesticide
diseases
and
accidents
reduction
employment
use of local
seeds and
native
breeds
consummer
confidence
functional
biodiversity
The project ECONewFARMERS is funded under
the programme Leonardo da Vinci - Projects of
Transfer of Innovation (2013-1-PT1-LEO0515535 - ECONewFARMERs Building a future for
new farmers in ecological farming through
vocational training) and includes partners from
Hungary, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Slovakia and the
United Kingdom