Food security will exist when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (as stated in the Rome Declaration in 1996). Given the dimension of the current global food crisis, food security means adopting effective and specific actions at individual, household, national, regional and global levels. Food security invites us to reflect upon ethical principles like human equity, justice between current and future generations, respect for human dignity and...

With units that offer clear and synthetic theoretical guidelines, this book offers a set of very practical tools, mostly of the In-TRAY type, with which teachers of any family and grade of Vocational Education and Training (VET) can work directly with their students on transversal competences. The ZeharGAIT method, the basis of this proposal, and the 65 blocks of activities (with more than a hundred cases in total) have been tested with VET students and contrasted with teachers from different European countries. The activities have been grouped into different thematic units, offering...