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Education for Rural People and Food Security "From Land Tenure to resources access and management: a participatory approach in fighting against poverty"
Over 70 percent of the world’s population lives in poverty and the vast majority of these people live in rural areas, Education for Rural People (ERP) explores the links and tries to find solutions to some of the problems by making education better, more accessible and more relevant to people living in areas of extreme rural poverty for whom education might not be seen as a priority. The project is carried out by Cyfanfyd in partnership with ACRA (Italy), CFSI (France) and the European NGO's Network for ERP and Food Security, in collaboration with FAO and UNESCO within the Education for Rural People (ERP) Global Partnership initiative, working in partnership with organisations in Zanzibar, Chile, Chad, Bolivia and Senegal to explore different approaches to similar problems. The Wales-Zanzibar link has been coordinated by Cyfanfyd and has involved the formation of schools networks working to develop resources specific to Zanzibar. A team in Zanzibar has also produced a resource pack and it is intended that the schools should link up and exchange resources in due course. The project is co-financed by the European Commission - EuropeAid. The schools that have been involved in the project are Cyfarthfa High School (Merthyr Tydfil), Cardinal Newman RC High School (Pontypridd), Sir Thomas Picton School (Haverfordwest) and Greenhill (Tenby). Active links have been forged between these schools which will strengthen as work continues to link them to schools in Zanzibar. Education
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Education for Rural People and Food Security Schools Resources The ERP Wales-Zanzibar link has worked to produce secondary teaching resources (Key Stages 3 & 4) which highlight rural development issues using Zanzibar as a case study. A final report about the project can be downloaded here. A CD Rom containing the resource pack is available on request from Cyfanfyd.
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