Higher Education Mobilizing Vocational Education and Training to Support Nigerian Rural Communities in Optimizing Nutritional Values of High-Yield Crops

• In Event: Higher Education Credentialing Educational Leaders to Boost Inclusive Education Through Systemic Culturally Responsive Methodologies

Abstract

The shift to worldwide sustainable development and decision-making in a socio-ecological context depends on knowledge collaboration, which is understood as an interactive method that creates shared and practical knowledge (van Kerkhoff and Lebel, 2015). A variety of goods and services and earnings, and societal structures and networks all contribute to persistence in the face of change that acknowledges the significance of strengthening communities' ability to adapt to climate change. In addressing feedback mechanisms for knowledge development-associated policy concerns, governments must strike a balance between the requirement for quick answers and the need to respect the principles of openness, justice, accountability and inclusivity of the decision-makers and stakeholders. Professionals and community members can provide data to develop statistical predictive modelling and the indicators that local farmers and their communities can use to optimize their crop yields and their crops' nutritional value. Our proposal’s innovative strategies goals improve ethical and sustainable market systems for hastening adoption and spread of advances in technology by overcoming barriers (Grubb et al. 2017). Essential grassroots up techniques for encouraging community‐based involvement in sustainable food system growth is the capability to evaluate how education systems from compulsory, lifelong learning and VET have met the goals. This informs efficient and effective investment in education to facilitate Sustainable Food System (SFS) advancement (Alre et al. 2016). This we suggest can be actioned with our Consortium’s project proposal for doctoral study offered by HE professoriate to credential leaders and extension agents to teach communities to collect and use data and provide feedback loops to policy makers. The subsequent issue, not unique to sustainable food evaluation, is stakeholders' and farmers’ low levels of trust (Lyytimäki et al. 2018). This needs to be addressed using our Consortium’s toolkit ethical protocol of ABCDE and APS Learning with PEACE (Taysum, Kallioniemi and Ruşitoru, 2019, Taysum, 2019, Hauwa et al, 2020) which empowers farming and ranching communities at the grassroots level to apply their literacy and numeracy skills to building participatory full and free social contracts that protect their personal and social human rights. Historically, it might not be known why a particular location in our partner’s regions had a poor yield. The objective of our project is to teach citizens how to develop a range of culturally relevant indicators to enable communities to view the big picture for our partners including in Pakistan and neighbouring countries. Farmers may identify the problem’s root cause and then take appropriate action using data analysis of the soil's composition, level of nutrients, moisture content, and surface temperatures. The most simple and valuable tool is a smart Android handset used as a tool that extension agents can use to teach farmers for the purpose of Climate Smart Agriculture. This can build capacity for NiMET and utilizing data correctly through grassroots up starving communities in social contracts that protect personal and social interests of farming and ranching communities and significantly improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability of their business. Thus, our proposal for Higher Education to mobilize VET supports starving communities optimize nutritional-values of high-yield crops.

Authors

• Hauwa Imam, University of Abuja

• Uchi Dominic Terhile, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University

• Muhammad Ilyas Khan, Hazara University

• Alison Sheila Taysum, National University of Ireland - Maynooth

• Khalid Husny Arar, Texas State University