Future Food Production: Crops - Wageningen University
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How to feed the world without depleting our planet’s reserves? Learn the basics of crop production .
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Undergraduate basic biology
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Subjects
- Production
- Food Production
- Biology
- Reserves
- Planet
Course programme
What you'll learn
- Value the main issues related to global food production and consumption and the regional differences between developed and developing countries.
- Understand how food crop production can be influenced by changing the availability of water and nutrients and by measures suppressing pests, diseases and weeds.
- Identify the processes related to food crop production that cause major environmental problems and evaluate measures to solve and prevent those problems.
- Assess yield gaps of food crops in different geographical regions.
- Judge innovations in food crop production on their merits for the rural population in the different geographical regions.
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Future Food Production: Crops - Wageningen University