Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Specialised master in environmental management in developing countries | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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)
- 24 hours of lectures and practical works in one week
- Mixing of theory and practical works
Recommended or required readings
- Powerpoint presentations
- Syllabus - Exercises
- Internet sites references
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
- René Gommes (Rene.Gommes@fao.org)
- Bernard Tychon (Bernard.Tychon@ulg.ac.be)