Workshop 3. Agriculture, biodiversity

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Workshop 3. Agriculture, biodiversity
protection of nature

• A Sustainable Baltic Region Teachers Conference,
  Dec. 8-12, 2004

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Results of workshop group no. 3. Agriculture,
biodiversity protection of nature

• Participants
• Dominik Drzazga,
• Christine Jakobsson
• Vaidotas Vaisis
• Olga Saprykina
• Valentin Yatsukhno
• Aneta Nowaczewska-Torbus
• Monika Tarnawska
• Nadezda Goncharova
• Valdis Vircavs
• Nikolay Rolle
• Franciszek Switala

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• 1. SBR is provided mainly as a facultative course
• Teaching methods
• a) lectures, seminars most common form of
  providing the course
• group work, individual studies these methods
  are used rather for particular topics trips,
  visiting teachers highly recommended,
  especially for forestry and fishery issues.
• b) demanding parts of the material from the
  particular field of interest what parts are
  especially complicated/problematic why?, how to
  solve these problems?
• Presentation of different, historical models of
  agriculture in comparison to the sustainable one.
• Relationship between agriculture and nature
  conservation areas.
• To add a new chapter/subchapter of material.
• There is a need to develope the issue of the
  process of urbanisation on rural areas
• c) tasks for the students, topics for student
  seminars written assignments
• Basic exercises for students which should be
  finsihed with discussion.
• What is new
• common EU policy in the field of agriculture
• use Baltic 21 Agriculture, Forestry Fishery
  Sector Action Programm as an example
• The importancy of NATURA 2000 in connection to
  agriculture policy
• d) what is new in the particular field of
  interest? What is missing in the current version?
  Updating information in relation to e.g. the
  Environmental Science book. Another target
  students group?
• Lack in manegement skills e.g. in collective
  agriculture

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• Additional materials for the teachers what are
  the teachers needs in relation to that?
• Apart from booklets and video tapes additional
  materials like Power Point Presentations
  available on web or CDs could be useful
• Additional literature for the students
  proposals
• Teachers responsible for finding national
  literature (e. g. journals, papers, books,
  reviews showing case studies, local cases) and
  providing them for students.
• Vision of development of the new course (new
  elements?, new materials?, new booklets?, use of
  modern technologies? using of webpage)
• It's necessary to add to the booklets new parts
  of nature conservation (especially concerning EU
  initiative of pan-european NATURA 2000 system) to
  widen the subchapter of biodiversity (containing
  information about implementation convention of
  biodiversity).
• It is possible to adapt and include as a part of
  this topic the fish games
• It is suggested that at the end of each chapter
  could be added a glossary as well as list of key
  questions for students.
• 6. Practical use of the course can the
  teachers and the students benefit from it
  professionally?
• We hope that the process of interaction between
  teachers and students provides lots of benefits ?
• Questions to the mentor of the course /or BUP
  Uppsala
• The most difficult answers were pefrormed by
  Christine Jakobsson