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School food programs have been shown to benefit health and dietary behaviour and critical food literacy skills (learning, culture, and social norms) that support local agriculture and promote sustainable food systems.
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01 May 1925-The School Review
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The volume will be of help to teachers of agriculture and of practical arts in high schools and colleges but more particularly to teachers of vocational agriculture.
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Jikun Huang, Yang-jie Wang 
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This study concludes that mainstreaming agricultural mitigation and adaptation into agricultural development programs, enhancing local capacity, and considering different stakeholders' needs are major experiences for successfully financing sustainable agriculture under climate change.
While there are a large variety of programs in schools that have the potential to promote school connectedness among its students, the parallels to the school connectedness promotion factors present in the foundational principles of agricultural education evoke further investigation.
The respondents agreed the science and agriculture programs have something to offer each other and would benefit students.
Educational programs at all levels, even high school, should emphasize the opportunities in international agriculture to build a cadre of dedicated scientists for the future.
The findings suggest that entrepreneurship is important in agriculture, which is reflected in a majority of programs having some coverage in their curriculum of entrepreneurship.
Under a socioeconomic regime that does this, raised-field agriculture could have considerable practical application.
Perceptions regarding integrating science and agriculture, the role of teacher preparation programs in integrating science, and integrating science to meet state standards indicated teachers had a positive attitude toward integrating science into agricultural education programs.
Results show that in schools where agriculture is not taught, while students firmly believed that agriculture is very important, very few would make it a career–choice.
Off-campus degree programs fit well within the mission of land-grant university colleges of agriculture.
The substantive theory that emerged was that school– based agriculture programs can have a positive impact on the social connections among a small group of community members and students.
These educational programs are possible because of a committed interdisciplinary faculty team and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a facility dedicated to sustainable and organic agriculture research, education, and outreach.
We believe the NCSU educational approach and programs described here may offer insights for other land grant universities considering developing multilevel sustainable agriculture educational programs.
The study suggests that non-traditional programs should be developedat the elementary school level to educate students about food, agriculture and renewable resources.
We propose that successful implementation of such programs requires targeting areas highly reliant on agriculture and within these areas focus on households mostly dependent on farming to sustain their welfare.