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Lessons from Technology Supported Skilling Programmes for Farmers in India
Abstract
Agriculture continues to be an important occupation in many parts of the Commonwealth with major implications for food as well as livelihood security. Any kind of lifelong learning intervention for the community of farmers is challenging because of their dispersed location, diverse needs depending on various factors including the crops they produce and existing facilities that have access to, while also being determined by individual and social capabilities in any given context. This paper aims at distilling some key lessons using a combination of two studies looking at the lifelong learning programme for farmers being implemented by Commonwealth of Learning and its partners in the southern parts of India using accessible technology and local institutions. One of the two is a quantitative study that focuses on impact, and the other two are institutional case studies that focus on processes. The focus of the paper in on understanding what the key factors are that enable or constrain the process of ‘skilling’ farmers and what lessons emerge from these experiences with respect to developing a model for large scale, technology supported lifelong learning centred programmes for people engaged in such occupations that are largely based in rural areas but increasingly dependent on markets and information-bases that are external to the local ecosystem.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Skills Development Through Lifelong Open Education
Paper ID: 6809
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India
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Asia
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)