كليدواژه :
exchange at tertiary level , government policies , Organic farming , Collaboration
چكيده فارسي :
The migration and exodus from rural areas into urban settings and towards the old continent has often
seen more disadvantaged and less educated people trapped into subsistence farming and escape into a
dream context that in actuality was just as disheartening as back home. Informal settlement, often created
because of the rural migration to urban areas are targeted by government for redevelopment. Vulnerable
people have often been attracted by an aggressive manipulation of information of shrewd syndicates that
have presented Europe as the mecca of economic opportunities. It is estimated that alone in the
Mediterranean Sea around 40000 people have died trying to cross the sea into Italy. Rural migration, lack
of access to water and other facilities has fuelled conflicts, contributed to unsustainable subsistence in
disadvantaged urban communities, South Africa, Brasil and India share parallels. Cuba’s most urgent
needs are a sustainable agriculture, housing and energy. There is a need to engage in issues of mutual
concern, to elaborate and collaborate on the causes of rural migration that affect both urban and rural
areas, to promote pilot projects in African countries and cross collaboration across Asian, Latin American
and African countries to seek solutions that can be applied to enable a transition from subsistence
farming to sustainable economic activities that could include agri-tourism, renewable alternative energy
resources, utilising public policies and with help of social movements and collective systems. There is a
need for development of joint training programmes for human resource development in sustainable
development (erosion, soil improvement, research, agrifinance, organic farming, sustainable architecture
and urban design, gender matters. The educational component looks at complementary synergies (like
School Feeding System - the Brasilian Model -, cooperation opportunities, student exchange at tertiary
level, collaborative research, implementation of private public partnerships, broad participation of
governments and private enterprises, exchange of researchers in respective disciplines. Proposed pilot
projects in three different context to be analysed and presented at Expo 2015 in Milan.
