ENVT2028-2 : Food security and early warning systems

Study Programmes 2016-2017

WARNING : 2015-2016 version of the course specifications

ENVT2028-2

Food security and early warning systems

Duration :

18h Th, 18h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS)		3
Master in environmental science and management (60 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

René Gommes, Bernard Tychon

Coordinator :

Bernard Tychon

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

Food security
State and trend of the agriculture
Analyses and factors of food insecurity
Emergency situations
Early warning systems
Monitoring and forecasting with agrometeorological tools

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

Give the students the ability to analyse the food insecurity of a given situation by teaching different methodologies applies operationaly in several developing countries. The student will make himself/herself familiar with some tools for specific analyses or monitoring of the food insecurity.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Notions of remote sensing, climatology and agrometeorology
Basic knowledge of statistics

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Learning AGROMETSHELL, FAOCLIM and NEWLOCLIM

Exercise of yield forecasting on data from a developing country

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Lectures and practical works in one week
Mixing of theory and practical works