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| HORT0013-1 | Urban agriculture
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| Duration : | 12h Th, 12h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Haissam Jijakli |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| Theoretical course: In the first part of this teaching, urban agriculture and horticulture will be defined. Then, actual activities in urban and suburban horticultural productions will be listed and characterized for temperate and tropical regions. In a second time, needs in urban horticulture development will be discussed (food supplying, ecological, economic and social functions) and examples will be showed trough some international practical cases. Finally, new methods in urban horticulture will be exposed, taking the harmonious and sustainable integration to the urban environment into account
Cases study: Students (in groups) will make a bibliographic review over one mode of urban horticulture (roof vegetalization, basement production, community garden) an imagine the development of one of them for a Belgian city, taking every aspect into account (social, ecological, economical, technical, legislative...). The conclusions of the work are presented with both a written report and an oral presentation. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The objectives are:
1. To give a global view of the production systems in urban horticulture (essentially in temperate conditions).
2. To demonstrate the complexity of the setting up of those systems, taking economical, ecological, technical and legislative constraints into account.
3. To allow the acquisition of sufficient general knowledge needed in the elaboration of urban horticulture production systems. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures: 12 hours
Personal work: 12 hours |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| The vertical farm : feeding the world in the 21th century, (2011) Dr Dickson Despommier, ed Picador |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Group project: 100% |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. JIJAKLI Haissam
ULg, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Bât. 47, avenue Maréchal Juin
5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622431
mh.jijakli@ulg.ac.be |
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