250024 Land Resources and Crop Production in the Tropics

Detaljer
Inst. for Jordbrugsvidenskab   81 %
Inst. for Grundvidenskab   19 %
Tidligst mulig placeringBachelor 3. år til Kandidat 1.år
VarighedTo blokke
 
Pointværdi15 (ECTS)
KursustypeFælleskursus
 
EksamenSluteksamen

skriftlig prøve


Skriftlig auditorieeksamen

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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 eksamenApproval of 75% of exercises
 
Rammer for undervisningCombination of lectures and theoretical exercises, possibly with some teaching periods at KVL-Taastrup
 
BlokplaceringBlock 1
Ugestruktur: B

Block 2
Ugestruktur: B
 
UndervisningssprogEngelsk
 
Anbefalede forudsætninger055511 
 
Begrænset deltagerantalNone
 
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
 
Studienævn
Studienævn NSN
 
Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang
forelæsninger84
teoretiske øvelser196
forberedelse128
eksamen4

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