Skills for Agriculture

A Common Language

Standardising language, defining job roles, and aiding the career progression of professionals within agriculture.

CABI’s Skills Framework for Agriculture (SfA) provides the foundation for our courses and certifications. The SfA framework 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.

Who is the framework for?

Workers

Employers

A trainer training a group of extension workers.

Educators

Workers

Employers

Educators

How to use the framework

The Skills for Agriculture can be used to develop job descriptions, support personal career planning, training needs analysis, to find courses, and to identify gaps in educational provision.

Using the framework

Explore Skills

Dive into the skills framework, see where you or your team might need development, and find related training opportunities.

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Crops

Behaviours

Extension and Advisory Services

Relationships and business

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Worker

Assess yourself against the framework

The skills builder helps you to understand your own skill levels or those of your team, to learn gaps to address with training and find out the next steps to take to improve.

Take Self Assessment