{"id":51917,"date":"2026-04-16T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?p=51917"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:05:42","slug":"terrae-vivae-the-agronomists-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/fr\/terrae-vivae-the-agronomists-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrae Vivae: The Agronomists of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dNdwBWzefik?si=yvnX2HW0kuCGWWg4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><small>English subtitles available<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><div class=\"alt-languages\">This post is also available in: <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/\">Anglais<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/it\/\">Italien<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/es\/\">Espagnol<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/de\/\">Allemand<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/pt-br\/\">Portugais - du Br\u00e9sil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/\">Grec moderne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/\">Catalan<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first term of the\u00a0<a class=\"reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super hover:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/terrae-vivae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"text-box-trim-both\">Terrae Vivae<\/span><\/a> program saw the participation of students from the Salvo D&rsquo;Acquisto Agricultural Technical Institute in Bracciano. An important milestone for the program, considering that Navdanya&rsquo;s educators are working, for the first time after two years of experience with high school TSOP programs, with an agricultural technical institute. Future professionals to whom we aim to offer in-depth knowledge of agroecological techniques that, through their consultancy, may one day be adopted by an increasing number of farmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To help participants understand that what they are learning has immediate practical application, an experiential approach was chosen. In continuity with Navdanya&rsquo;s educational philosophy, learning was not conceived as a simple transmission of notions, but as a living process that starts from direct experience and contact with the land. The risk that classroom reasoning becomes empty words is high, and so, as much as possible, away with blackboards and presentations. Field visits to farms, technical worksheets, the spade test. And above all, no barrier between students and nature. The soil thus becomes an open-air classroom: a space to observe, touch, smell, compare different samples, raise questions, and connect what is seen in the field with the technical topics covered in class.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-51779\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5784.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The work was structured as a participatory workshop, alternating between field investigations, group discussions, and collective sharing, so that students\u2014future agricultural professionals\u2014could engage their own perspectives, knowledge, and experience. This approach, based on \u00ab\u00a0learning by doing\u00a0\u00bb and peer exchange, aims to transform abstract concepts such as fertility, biodiversity, or regeneration into real practices, linked to specific places, people, and decisions. Throughout the process, students were guided to identify the challenges they see in today&rsquo;s agriculture and to reflect on what it means to farm regeneratively. It is in this way that it finally becomes possible to look at soil with new eyes and recognize agroecology as a concrete possibility, not just an abstract concept.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In one of the activities, participants were divided into groups, distributed across different points in a field, pasture, or woodland, free to explore, investigate, and improvise. With the supervision of educators, initial curiosity transformed into visual, sensory, and olfactory observation. Students were able to observe and analyze differences between soil layers based on color, moisture, smell, and texture. Some encountered earthworms, others found fungi, and others analyzed humus. It is in this phase that it becomes possible to identify the differences between living, healthy soil and barren land in an advanced stage of desertification. This is the condition of\u00a0<a class=\"reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super hover:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/en\/analysis\/publications\/soil-carbon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"text-box-trim-both\">75% of agricultural soils<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Southern Europe, with organic carbon concentrations below 2% and therefore at high risk of desertification. Visits to farms allow for direct experience of techniques that can not only protect, but also regenerate soil fertility. Students were thus able to observe the regeneration of soil organic matter up to 6% through the use of rotational grazing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-51787\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5869.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">To fully understand the importance that agroecological techniques can have, a technical consultancy simulation was set up. Students, as future agricultural technicians, were asked to conduct a logic exercise, a technical analysis aimed at emancipating them from conventional thinking and stimulating ecological reasoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the program, a technical committee simulation was proposed: a farmer, from various production sectors, presents their farm and the problems they face in terms of production, management, and finances. On the desk, a series of information sheets on key agroecological techniques. In this way, after analyzing the issues, students can consult the sheets, develop their reasoning, and propose ecological solutions to the farmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exercise made it possible to give context to the practices, but above all to stimulate critical thinking. The result was that many groups found multiple solutions to individual problems, implicitly bringing reasoning to a complex and systemic level, moving away from a conventional reductionist approach. Learning to recognize living soil also means beginning to imagine different forms of agriculture and community: it is from here that another idea of the future can germinate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vADIBKwvuC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/terrae-vivae\/\">Terrae Vivae \u2013 Cultivating Ecological Renewal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Terrae Vivae \u2013 Cultivating Ecological Renewal&#8221; &#8212; Navdanya international\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/terrae-vivae\/embed\/#?secret=AH9o5WQ34j#?secret=vADIBKwvuC\" data-secret=\"vADIBKwvuC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English subtitles available The first term of the\u00a0Terrae Vivae program saw the participation of students from the Salvo D&rsquo;Acquisto Agricultural Technical Institute in Bracciano. 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