Agriculture and Animals
While the population is rapidly growing the world is facing climate change. This makes it increasingly challenging to generate enough food, both plant and animal based.
Agriculture has the potential to reduce poverty, increase access to food and create employment. It all depends on how land – both urban and rural – is managed and adaptation strategies are applied. Join the world’s # 1 Agricultural University and discover which aspect of agriculture you want to explore.
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Crops
Courses about the agro-ecological drivers that shape various production systems and sustainable solutions for crop protection issues.
Land and Water Management
Courses about the consumption of scarce resources by various competing actors.
Livestock and Fisheries
Courses about sustainable and climate-smart livestock farming, fisheries and wildlife.
Management and Governance
Courses about the role of stakeholders, sustainable business cases, resource management, policies etc.
Discover all Agriculture and Animal courses and programmes:
33 activities scheduled
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Big data for agri-food: principles and toolsDecipher your unsampled big data set and the phenomena it hides by properly choosing and putting into practice the scalable solution for your agri-food business.
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Contemporary Approaches to Genetic Resources Conservation and UseDo you want to be updated on state-of-the-art insights in various plant genetic resources management strategies and its relevant policies? Then this course is of interest to you.
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Drones for Agriculture: Prepare and Design Your Drone (UAV) MissionLearn how to execute a flight mission (from image acquisition to data visualization) with a drone and how to process the collected data for your own applications.
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Farmer Agency: a Practical Approach for Farmer-Inclusive Food System TransformationThis course provides you practical facilitation tools and options for action to make agriculture and food systems more farmer-inclusive. Join the course.
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Global One Health: towards Human, Animal and Plant HealthThis course is about the interconnectedness of the health of people, animals, plants and their environments.
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Guiding Seed Sector TransformationBroaden your international experience and strengthen your competencies to support seed sector development taking an integrated perspective during this course.
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Horticulture Sector Development for Emerging MarketsThis course covers the complete horticulture value chain, including fruit, vegetable and ornamental subsectors, and both greenhouse as well as open field production.
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Integrated Pest Management and Food SafetyThis course explores Integrated Pest Management (IPM) & Food Safety with an innovative approach, combining technical and strategic advice to IPM into practice.
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Lost Harvest and Wasted FoodIn this course you will look at ways to minimise losses, reduce food waste and explore alternative uses. Ultimately this should contribute to food security.
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Milking to PotentialLearn how to design and implement dairy development strategies in emerging economies.
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Online Course Cold Storage of Apples and PearsDiscover the world of cold storage of apples and pears and learn more about physiological processes of fruit. Gain more insights into cooling systems and controlled atmosphere.
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Online Course Data-Driven Agri-Food BusinessThis course offers insights into data-driven agri-food business developments and provides you with concrete ideas how to deal with this for your own business or organisation.
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Online Course Gut Health in Pigs and PoultryBroaden your knowledge on the influence of nutrition and immunology on the gut health of pigs and poultry. The latest research insights and developments will be shared.
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Online Course How Mother can Influence OffspringCourse on transgenerational (nutritional) effects in humans and animals. Epigenetics, early life, transgeneral effects and mechanisms of epigenesis will be discussed.
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Online Course on Aquatic Effect Assessment of Plant Protection Products2 week online training programme for Tier 1 up and to the higher tiers, focus lays upon EFSA guidance about aquatic effect assessment and the linking of exposure to effects.
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Online Course Plant BreedingMultiple online modules on plant breeding, from basic to more advanced. Optional exam. Start anytime, study anytime.
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Online Course Plant Pathology and EntomologyOnline modules on phytopathology, nematology, entomology and virology. Optional exam. Start anytime, study anytime. You can register for any combination.
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Online Course Refrigerated Transport TechnologyLearn how to apply refrigerated transport technology to control temperature, humidity and gas atmosphere conditions during transportation in an energy efficient way.
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Online programme: Animal Breeding and GeneticsLearn to design, set up, execute and optimise an animal breeding programme and increase the productivity of livestock and domestic animals.
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Online Programme: Food Security and SustainabilityGain the knowledge on how to produce sufficient food in an environmentally sustainable way to feed the increasing world population in the future.