Urban farming basis

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Haissam Jijakli

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

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 agriculture development will be discussed (food supplying, ecological, economic and social functions) and examples will be showed trough some international practical cases.
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.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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 social, economic, ecological, technical and legislative constraints into account.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Plant Sciences (Botanic or equivalent) et Plant Composition (or equivalent)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures: 12 hours Personal work: 12 hours

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

Face-to-face thanks to a tool box

Recommended or required readings

The vertical farm : feeding the world in the 21th century, (2011) Dr Dickson Despommier, ed Picador

Assessment methods and criteria

Group project: 100%

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Prof. JIJAKLI Haissam ULg, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Bât. 47, avenue Maréchal Juin 5030 Gembloux +32 81 622431 mh.jijakli@ulg.ac.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The teaching was done in person before the containment Group projects were given to you and their evaluation is done remotely by G. Stouvenackers.

Assessment subjects

All parties seen in person are part of the evaluation material:
- The parts seen by Mr. Jijakli
- The parts seen by the other speakers during Mr. Jijakli's absence
- Excursions

Assessment methods

The evaluation is done on two points:
- Evaluation of college projects (65% of points): these will be presented on the day of the exam on June 9. The evaluation will be done remotely based on the presentation of your project in Power Point format and report.
- An exam. This will be done remotely (35% of points) and on the same day as the 'Urban Vegetable Production' exam (June 17).
It will consist of asking one or more open questions and you will have all the documentary resources you want (courses, books, websites,...). The question or questions will be asked on the day of the exam at a specific time via e-campus. You will have time to respond and will need to return your or your responses to a PDF document sent by email at the end of the allotted time.
This time allotted requires knowing the course BEFORE the exam in order to quickly find the information that will allow you to think and formulate your answers.

Contacts

Haïssam Jijakli : mh.jijakli@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

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