| Inst. for Jordbrugsvidenskab
81 % 19 % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Varighed | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Fælleskursus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | skriftlig prøve med hjælpemidler Beskrivelse af eksamen: 13-skala, intern censur Eksamensdatoer: and approval of exercise reports | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | Lectures: 4 modules (if first 7 weeks, 2 course module per week if 14 weeks) Practicals: 16 hours per week (if first 7 weeks, 8 hours per week if 14 weeks) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | E SUP Note that the course teaching is placed in first half of the semester | ||||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | 055511 Plantevækstfaktorer og afgrødefysiologi A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kursets målsætning | |||||||||||||||||||
| LRCP-A provides 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rationale: The course is a core course in the MSc Agricultural Development programme for students wishing to specialise in tropical crop production and natural resources management, and is simultaneously an opportunity for BSc and MSc students from other programmes at KVL and elsewhere. LRCP is designed to support the more advanced MSc level course LRCP-B (00 00 00), but can also be taken as a stand-alone course. Course content: 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 accordingly: 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; agrohydrology; bioclimatology; soil fertility; plant nutrition; crops; and 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. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course combines lectures and theoretical exercises with individual/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 highlands zones: maize and wetland rice based cropping systems; rainfed and irrigated conditions; and sloping lands. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||||||
| Compendium of selected texts. Compilation of case studies Exercise book | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 Error. Person Not Found Jens Carl Streibig, jcs@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Afgrødevidenskab, Tlf: 35333457 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Studienævn | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang | |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||