Duration
20h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Status and trends in agriculture.
- Agrometeorology and agricultural production.
- Food security concepts.
- Major agricultural production systems and their impacts on soil fertility and conservation.
- Production chains and distribution systems.
- Analyzes and factors of food insecurity.
- Food insecurity monitoring systems.
- Food insecurity early warning systems.
- Food insecurity analysis exercise.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Understand the natural and human factors underlying agricultural production.
- Know the main agricultural production systems and be able to define their advantages and limits.
- Understand the production chains and the factors acting on the different actors in the chains.
- Give the student the ability to analyze a situation in terms of food insecurity by teaching the methodologies practiced operationally in several developing countries. The student will also become familiar with some analytical tools specific to food security monitoring .
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- Notions of remote sensing, climatology and agrometeorology.
- Basic knowledge of statistics.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Alternation of theoretical teaching and practical work
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
- 20h Theory, 20h Practical.
- Use of AquaCrop, AGROMETSHELL, SPIRITS, CST and NEWLOCLIM software.
- Yield forecasting exercise on data from a developing country.
Recommended or required readings
Slideshows, syllabus, scientific papers, statements of exercises, websites.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Bernard Tychon (Bernard.Tychon@uliege.be)
Pierre Ozer (pozer@uliege.be)