Inst. for Jordbrugsvidenskab
81 % Inst. for Grundvidenskab 19 % | |||||||||||||
Tidligst mulig placering | Bachelor 3. år til Kandidat 1.år | ||||||||||||
Varighed | To blokke | ||||||||||||
Pointværdi | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
Kursustype | Fælleskursus | ||||||||||||
Eksamen | Sluteksamen skriftlig prøve Skriftlig auditorieeksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: 4 hour written exam with 4 main questions broadly covering subjects from lectures and exercises Vægtning: 25% to each of the four main questions, summing up to 100% 7-trinsskala, intern censur Eksamensdatoer: 25 January 2008 | ||||||||||||
Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | Approval of 75% of exercises | ||||||||||||
Rammer for undervisning | Combination of lectures and theoretical exercises, possibly with some teaching periods at KVL-Taastrup | ||||||||||||
Blokplacering | Block 1 Ugestruktur: B Block 2 Ugestruktur: B | ||||||||||||
Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||
Anbefalede forudsætninger | 055511 | ||||||||||||
Begrænset deltagerantal | None | ||||||||||||
Kompetenceområder | |||||||||||||
Competencies within Basic Sciences: . understanding relationships between soil, water, plant and atmosphere in a tropical environmental context. Competencies within Technology and Production: . knowledge of crop production in tropical rainfed and irrigated agro-ecosystems . understanding of bio-physical related production constraints and opportunities in small-scale farming systems . applying basic scientific principles across the diverse range of socio-cultural and bio-physical environments encountered in tropical agriculture. Competencies within Ethics and Values: . awareness and responsiveness to poverty alleviation and sustainability issues in tropical agriculture. | |||||||||||||
Kursets målsætning | |||||||||||||
Providing students, having a BSc-level background in fundamental agricultural sciences or equivalent, a comprehensive understanding of soil, water, and plant nutrient characteristics and processes and crop production in tropical rainfed and irrigated agro-ecosystems including both low and high potential areas. Focus is on bio-physical related production constraints and opportunities in small-scale farming systems, within the context of poverty alleviation and sustainable land use. | |||||||||||||
Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||
The course focuses on capacity development in core discipline areas while being interdisciplinary by integrating several disciplines in a holistic analysis of the biological, chemical and physical characteristics and processes in tropical soil-plant-atmosphere systems of relevance for crop production. The course is divided in three major phases: i. Introduction: tropical agriculture and natural resources management, constraints and opportunities, and development issues; tropical climate; agro-ecosystems and farming systems; case studies. ii. Fundamentals: soils and environmental chemistry; agrohydrology and bioclimatology; soil fertility; plant nutrition; crops. iii. Management, applications and integration within selected agro-ecosystems and farming systems including: land and water management design principles and practices (tillage; irrigation and drainage; sloping land management; water harvesting; integrated watershed development and management); nutrient cycling, an outline of fertilizers and fertilization, and integrated nutrition of selected crops; weed control; selected crops, cropping systems, post-harvest technology and breeding; environmental protection. | |||||||||||||
Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||
The course combines lectures and theoretical exercises with individual and group work. Integration across disciplines is enhanced by addressing the same typology and set of agro-ecosystems, farming systems and crops in all course elements, and by using a common dataset with comprehensive case studies as the basis for all exercises where possible. The selected agro-ecosystems, farming systems and crops include inter alia: humid, semi-arid and highland zones; maize, wheat and wetland rice based cropping systems; rainfed and irrigated conditions; and sloping lands. | |||||||||||||
Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||
Stipulated in "Areas of Competence the Course Will Address" | |||||||||||||
Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||
Collection of selected texts and exercises (details to be announced) | |||||||||||||
Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||
Jens Raunsø Jensen, jrj@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrug og Økologi/Miljø, Ressourcer og Teknologi, Tlf: 35333387 Ole Kragholm Borggaard, okb@life.ku.dk, Institut for Grundvidenskab/Jordbunds- og miljøkemi, Tlf: 35332419 Jørgen Lindskrog Christiansen, jlc@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Afgrødevidenskab, Tlf: 35333452 Jens Carl Streibig, jcs@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Afgrødevidenskab, Tlf: 35333457 Andreas de Neergaard, adn@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Plante- og Jordvidenskab, Tlf: 35333499 | |||||||||||||
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