Duration
8h Th, 12h FT
Number of credits
| Advanced Master in Integrated Production and Preservation of Natural Resources in Urban and Peri-Urban Environments (Programme fermé) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
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
Theoretical course: In the first part of this teaching, urban agriculture and horticulture will be defined. Then, actual activities in urban and suburban horticultural productions will be listed and characterized for temperate and tropical regions. In a second time, needs in urban agriculture development will be discussed (food supplying, ecological, economic and social functions) and examples will be showed trough some international practical cases.
Cases study: Students (in groups) will make a bibliographic review over one mode of urban horticulture (roof vegetalization, basement production, community garden) an imagine the development of one of them for a Belgian city, taking every aspect into account (social, ecological, economical, technical, legislative...). The conclusions of the work are presented with both a written report and an oral presentation.
A tour of at least half a day is also planned. The aim is to confront students with real situations encountered in the field. The urban farms visited are either in Brussels or in Wallonia, depending on the news of the farms.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The objectives are:
1. To give a global view of the production systems in urban horticulture (essentially in temperate conditions).
2. To demonstrate the complexity of the setting up of those systems, taking social, economic, ecological, technical and legislative constraints into account.
3. Identify the context and reality of urban farms
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Plant Sciences (Botanic or equivalent) et Plant Composition (or equivalent)
Students in landschape architecture must have succeed examination in "Fondements en agriculture urbaine
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures: 8 hours
Tour : 4 heures
Personal work: 12 hours
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face thanks to a tool box
Course materials and recommended or required readings
The vertical farm : feeding the world in the 21th century, (2011) Dr Dickson Despommier, ed Picador
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
Project in team: written report and oral Presentation apport on Collaborate : 65 % of final note
Written Examination wieht opened questions via mails : 35 % of final note
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Prof. JIJAKLI Haissam ULg, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Bât. 47, avenue Maréchal Juin 5030 Gembloux +32 81 622431 mh.jijakli@ulg.ac.be