Main tropical herbaceous crops and cropping systems, food and energy crops. Effetcs of Grand Solar Minimum and related global cooling on yields. Countering biowarfare in agriculture, possible biological threat agents.
Food and energy crops: study materials and study concepts available from the professors and on Moodle, together with oral preesentations .
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: management of tropical herbaceous (food and energy plants) including agroforestry techniques. In consideration of the general approach of the MSc, focused mainly on little and medium scale farms, we consider especially aspects of ecological and environmental friendly agriculture, with special interest on agroforestry techniques.
Lessons of the professors, daily checks on little agroforestry projects on easy calculations elaborated by each student.
Further information
-COMPULSORY, on line booking of the exam, moreover inform the two teachers by email AT EAST one week before the exam and after the booking
Type of Assessment
Written test with questions and multivariate answers. A group of 30 compulsoru questions, each correct answer gives one point. Plus 10 not compulsory questions, if all 40 answers are correct you get the honours. The valutation is absolutely objective, mathematical.
Course program
Main food and energy crops, their botany, biology, ecology, agronomy, yields, harvesting, processing, utilization.