Promoting self-sufficiency by implementing and assessing effectiveness of Best environmental Management Practices in primary schools in order to ensure food security in rural communities close to EARTH University campus.

1. EARTH UNIVERSITY
Sustainable Urban
Agriculture and
Environmental
Education to mitigate
Climate Change
Participation at
Clinton Global
Initiative
Johanny Pérez

4. EARTH UNIVERSITY
Our Vision
Our actions are directed towards building a
future in which the humid tropics and its
communities achieve social, economic and
environmental well being
Our Mission
Prepare leaders with ethical values to
contribute to the sustainable development of
the humid tropics and to construct a
prosperous and just society

5. Sustainable Agriculture and
Environmental Education to
mitigate Climate Change

6. Core Principle
 Promoting self-
sufficiency by
implementing and
assessing
effectiveness of Best
environmental
Management
Practices in primary
schools in order to
ensure food security
in rural communities
close to EARTH
University campus.

7. Objectives
 To train primary’ school students in sustainable
agriculture, waste management and
environmental conservation
 To motivate young people to take action in the
order to eradicate poverty and mitigate climate
change.

8. Context for this INITIATIVE

12.  Rural Schools
 El Peje
 Germania
 San Martín
 El Carmen
 Cerca San Martín

13. Process for making CHANGE!
Module 3:
Module 2: Solid
Module 1: Periurban and Module 4:
Waste
Awareness Sustainable Climate Change
Management
Agriculture

14.  Permanent Education Program
 Community service coordinator
 Carbon Neutral coordinator
 Professor of Forestry
 Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at EARTH

15.  Trained students at EARTH University
 Faculty and admnistrators involved
 Schools trained
 Agroecological groups strengthened in rural schools
 Planted trees
 CO2 sequestrated (Vochysia ferruginea): 2.76 ton CO2/ year
 workshops
 recycled solid wastes