| Responsible Department | Department of Agriculture and Ecology Institute of Food and Resource Economics 0 % | ||||||||||||
| Research School | The course is associated with the AgTraIn doctorate programme | ||||||||||||
| Course Dates | 14. - 18. November 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Course Abstract | The objective is to create a common academic and methodological framework for each cohort of doctorates within the AgTraIn programme, and facilitating their development of a Training and Supervision Plan for their project. | ||||||||||||
| Course Home Page | http://www.agtrain.eu | ||||||||||||
| Course Registration | agtrain@life.ku.dk adn@life.ku.dk | ||||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | October 1st | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 2 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, exercises, discussions. | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| The objective is to create a common academic and methodological framework for each cohort of doctorates within the AgTraIn programme, and facilitating their development of a Training and Supervision Plan for their project. Specifically the course aims at setting the scene of food production and development, demonstrating the role and limitations of all actors in the food chain from primary production, over processing and value addition to traders. Secondly, the course will provide analytical tools and methodological approaches that can be used for stakeholder involvement and negotiation, hereunder: . Negotiation with stakeholders and stakeholder analysis . Transformation from problem to research question (LogFrame Analysis) . Rural realities and constraints . Framework for smallholder innovation . Participatory Action Research The students will submit a plan for stakeholder involvement in their continued project refinement as well as a preliminary logframe analysis. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Lectures Student presentations Exercises Student reflections | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| The students are expected to obtain the following: Tools for stakeholder inclusion in applied research Feedback on how tro translate complex realities in researchable hypotheses. Overview of action research methods and approaches Introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship aspects of agricultural development. Introduction to commercialisation in a food chain perspective. Introduction to the livelihood framework Training and supervision in inclusion of these aspects in their own research plan. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Andreas de Neergaard, adn@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Plant and Soil Science, Phone: 353-33499 | |||||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||||
| Didier Pillot, SupAgro Guy Faure, Cirad Myles Oelofse, LIFE Carsten Nico Hjortsø, LIFE | |||||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||||
| Students must participate actively in exercises and discussions. Students must present their own research plan initially. Students must present reflections on course content and modifications to research plan at the end of the course | |||||||||||||
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