What skills do agricultural professionals need in the transition towards a sustainable agriculture? a qualitative literature review
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Sorensen, Laura Brandt
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What skills do agricultural professionals need in the transition towards a sustainable agriculture? a qualitative literature review
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Agriculture is facing mounting challenges across the globe and must move towards
more sustainable practices to combat climate change and meet changed production requirements.
Education has been acknowledged as highly important in a sustainable transition, but there is no clear
agreement about what skills are needed for professionals in the agricultural system. The purpose
of this paper is to identify and analyse skills needed for professionals in the agricultural system to
engage in the transition towards sustainable agriculture and elaborate on the implications of this for
a transition towards sustainable agriculture. The review is based on a qualitative semi-systematic
literature review of 20 peer-reviewed articles concerned with sustainability, skills, and agriculture.
Five categories of skills were identified and analysed, including systems perspective, lifelong learning,
knowledge integration, building and maintaining networks and learning communities, and technical
and subject-specific knowledge and technology. As the identified categories of skills have emerged
from different contextual settings and a diverse group of actors, these five categories encourage a
broad and inclusive understanding of skills that can be translated into different contextual settings,
scales, and professions within the agricultural system. The article concludes that professionals
engaged in the transition towards sustainable agriculture need skills that encourage a perspective
that moves beyond generic discipline-based skills and instead builds on heterogeneity, inclusion,
and use of different actors’ knowledge, practices, and experiences, and the ability to respond and be
proactive in a constantly changing world.
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Sustainability 2021, 13, 13556
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