Agricultural Education’s Role in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Rural Development in China’s Shanghai

This study explores the role of an agricultural education programme in achieving China’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promoting rural development. Sustainability development education, a key factor in achieving the SDGs, can be implemented through formal, non-formal, and informal education by promoting sustainable development skills to understand and solve social, economic, and environmental problems. Semi-structured interviews and visits to agricultural education sites in a rural district of Shanghai revealed that stakeholders viewed the agricultural education programme as a rural development strategy and a means of achieving SDGs. While teachers highlighted the programme’s social transformation function, stakeholders participated for varied reasons and expanded their roles in the agricultural education network.