Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Consider the major concerns surrounding global food production and consumption, as well as geographical differences between industrialised and poor nations.
• Understand how modifying the availability of water and nutrients, as well as efforts to control pests, illnesses, and weeds, can affect food crop productivity.
• Identify the processes in food crop production that produce severe environmental problems and assess solutions and preventative actions.
• Examine the disparities in food crop yields across different geographical locations.
• Innovators in food crop production should be judged on their merits for the rural people in various geographic regions.

Syllabus:

1.  Introduction
2. Potential production
3.  Water limited production
4.  Nutrient limited production
5.  Actual production
6.  Synthesis