Courses :: Module, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

	Overview
	Low-input and high-input systems, their characteristics, values and sustainabilities. Maintaining soil fertilities in high and low input systems. Maintaining pest and disease control in high and low input systems. Choice of agricultural enterprise for physical, economic and social environments. Capitalisation, mechanisation and marketing in high or low input systems. Water management .

Overview

Low-input and high-input systems, their characteristics, values and sustainabilities. Maintaining soil fertilities in high and low input systems. Maintaining pest and disease control in high and low input systems. Choice of agricultural enterprise for physical, economic and social environments. Capitalisation, mechanisation and marketing in high or low input systems. Water management .

	Learning Outcomes
	On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: Provide students from diverse discipline backgrounds with the understanding they need to appreciate the constraints and opportunities operating in food agriculture. Build on theory and practice explored in earlier modules to inform insight into the social and economic position of agriculture locally and globally, and to inform their work when they undertake fieldwork within the community of practice.

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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE