Agricultural bioengineering, professional focus

Job opportunities

Bioscience engineers in Agricultural Sciences are particularly trained to:

• Ensure the supply of food and non-food products
• Ensure the sustainable development of specialized and non-specialized agriculture, both in the industrialized world and in less advanced regions
• Participate in the orientation, definition and implementation of agricultural, agri-environmental and general development policies
• Assess the environmental, economic and social impacts of agricultural, agro-industrial and para-agricultural activities
• Promote the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products, "from farm to fork", while ensuring product quality and human health
• Improve plant and animal species
• Contribute to limiting climate change and its effects
• Combat desertification, erosion and land degradation
• Streamline the use of finite natural resources
• Develop the production and use of resources - energy and raw materials - renewable
• Integrate social, environmental and agricultural relationships into development projects

The skills acquired can be used in the primary, secondary and tertiary fields of the following economic activities:

• plant and animal science in agrarian societies or farms in temperate and tropical regions
• agro-supply (fertilizers, seeds, plant protection products, etc.), animal feed and agri-food industries
• marketing of products upstream and downstream of agriculture
• biological and integrated control as well as plant and animal breeding
• conservation and management of plant and animal collections
• development projects through national and international organizations, consulting firms, cooperatives and NGOs
• advice and expertise in products and services
• general and technical education
• scientific research and research and development
• extension and training applied to crop and livestock production

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