Duration
Urban Farming : 8h Th, 16h FT, 12h Mon. WS
Biodiversity and city : 36h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Urban Farming : Haissam Jijakli
Biodiversity and city : Grégory Mahy
Coordinator
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
Urban Farming
This course will first describe the benefits brought by urban agriculture in the point of view of a sustainable development.
Urban agriculture typologies and production techniques (soiless culures, hydropony and aquapony) adapted to an urban environment will be explained.
A practical project will also being made where students will have to chose the adapted techniques to use in the context of several concrete building projects.
Biodiversity and city
Different topics to be selected depending on actors :
ecological management if green spaces
green buildings
ecossytem services
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Urban Farming
1: To know forms and typologies of urban agriculture
2:To know the benefits of the various forms of urban agriculture and their use depending on the people and on the building project and function
3: To know production techniques in order to be able to communicate with urban agriculture and estate profession specialists
4: To apply and integrate knowledges to a building project
Biodiversity and city
Be able to :
Integrate plant biodiversity in city planing projects
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Urban Farming
- Basic course in urban agriculture
- Botanique
- Agriculture comparée (ou cours équivalent)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Urban Farming
- face to face: 9h
- Tool box revision: 3h
- personnal work: 24h
Biodiversity and city
- Seminars
- Applied projects
- Review
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Urban Farming
Face-to-face
Workshop for working group
Biodiversity and city
Class attendance and personnal work
Recommended or required readings
Urban Farming
slides and bibliographic references advised during the cursus and reviewed every year
Assessment methods and criteria
Urban Farming
- Theory (Questions during a written examinaion) : 30 % final cotation
- Intermediary evaluation on the group project : 20 % final cotation
- Final evaluation on the group project : 50 % final cotation (personnal note within the group)
Biodiversity and city
Report on personnal work and oral discussion.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Urban Farming
Prof. JIJAKLI Haissam ULg, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Bât. 47, avenue Maréchal Juin 5030 Gembloux +32 81 622431 mh.jijakli@ulg.ac.be
Biodiversity and city
Grégory Mahy
g.mahy@ulg.ac.be
Items online
Urban Farming
Benefices, typlogies, technologies in UA
Benefices, typlogies, technologies in UA
General Introduction
General Introduction
Questions to adress for the project
Questions to adress for the project