Skills for Agriculture Framework
CABI’s Skills for Agriculture Framework (SfA) provides the foundation for our courses and certifications.
The SfA is designed to help organisations to assess skills gaps, and prepare training plans and job descriptions.
It can also be used by individuals to identify their own skills gaps and career pathways.
Skills for Agriculture Framework Principles
The Skills for Agriculture Framework is becoming the globally accepted common language for the skills and competencies for the agricultural world. Within its scope will be many of the occupations in the agricultural sector:
• Smallholder farmer
• Extension worker
• Agronomist
• Agricultural input supplier
• Farm equipment supplier
A Common Language
The Skills for Agriculture Framework provides a common language throughout the skills management cycle. This improves communication and understanding for all involved e.g. line management, HR and employees.
By using the Skills for Agriculture Framework, organisations can achieve a consistent and integrated skills and people management approach.
How the Skills for Agriculture Framework works
At the core of the Skills for Agriculture Framework is a comprehensive set of descriptions of professional skills and generic attributes.
It uses a similar model to the well-established Skills for the Information Age (SfIA). Each skill is described by up to seven levels of responsibility, with gradually increasing autonomy, influence and complexity.
A global initiative
Many organisations within the agriculture space have generously supported the Skills for Agriculture Framework. We are also very grateful to the SfIA Foundation for its advice and support.
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