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Course: Problems and Perspectives of Organic Farming (3405-451)

Note: Last updated September 2019. Current module catalog in HohCampus.
Persons:
Type of Course:
lecture
In-Class Hours Per Week:
4
Contents:

This module covers different apects of organic farming in nature sciences and socieoconomics that currently very important.
In nature sciences, the topics covered in the summer semester 2016 are "Organic Aquaculture", "Organic Agriculture and Nature Protection" and "Organic Plant Breeding" and "Copper Use in Organic Farming". In "Organic Aquaculture", external lecuterers from the governmental research body Thühnen Institute and from the organic farming association Naturland e.V. will come to teach in Hohenheim.
The students gain indepth knowledge on the challenges related to these topics. Students can test their knowledge in an field excercise in organic plant breeding and will get an pratical input on plant protection in organic fruit growing during an excursion to an organic fruit farm.

In second part of the module dealing with "Socioeconomy of Organic Farming" the students gain knowledge about agricultural policy that specifically refers to organic farming. They acquire methods that support the development, implementation and evaluation of organic farming policies, such as structured workshop concepts and the application of a SWOT analysis. Furthermore, the students gain understanding of the certification system for organic farming and its economic logic. In addition, the students will discuss the integration of organic farming in current sustainablity strategies from an sociological point of view.

Literature:

Current research articles, will be provided by the lectureres at the beginning of the module.

Location:
Hohenheim
Remarks:

Please register for the module online in ILIAS. If you have any questions regarding the module, please ask Dr. Zikeli (sabine.zikeli@uni-hohenheim.de)

Module:

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