ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how selected undergraduate students from The Netherlands and Zambia jointly conducted action research studies within dairy agriculture value chains in Zambia. The chapter highlights learning outcomes that emerged from the processes, new knowledge gained, as well as insights shared by students, based on cross-cultural perspectives (biosphere) from the entire field studies. Specifically, this chapter tackles sustainability mindset elements in the area of students learning new ways of conducting research from a multicultural dimension in complex environments that have divergent values and thinking. Results from this chapter are further compared with mono-cultural, as well as cross-cultural, educational settings where it might be a challenge to incorporate insights from this study. To offset this, cultural values, ways of thinking (systems thinking) and scenario building (appreciative inquiry) are used, as well as shared, to stimulate students, scholars and institutions in different contexts.
