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Unit description
Students will develop regenerative strategies to modify and manage rural or urban farm enterprises through applying life-cyle assessment techniques. A suite of tools, including grazing, fire, (no) tillage; biological fertilisers; composting, syntropics, agroforestry, cover cropping and ecologically based pest, weed and disease management are applied in a case study context.
Unit content
- Managing transitions to a regenerative farm enterprise, using life cycle assessment
- Regenerative practices and tools as applied to horticulture, cropping and livestock
- Ecologically based pest, weed and disease management
- Developing an action plan Part 1
- Developing an action plan Part 2
- Supporting farm transition
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | describe a range of strategies of regenerative agriculture including agronomy and livestock management |
| 2 | identify and apply ecological strategies to address weed, pests and disease issues |
| 3 | apply a life cycle assessment framework to identify farm characteristics in a case study context, including natural capital, agricultural capital, agricultural enterprise/s, human resources and the financial system |
| 4 | develop and effectively communicate a whole farm plan that applies a mix of strategies to move towards a more regenerative agricultural social, environmental and economic system. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- describe a range of strategies of regenerative agriculture including agronomy and livestock management
- identify and apply ecological strategies to address weed, pests and disease issues
- apply a life cycle assessment framework to identify farm characteristics in a case study context, including natural capital, agricultural capital, agricultural enterprise/s, human resources and the financial system
- develop and effectively communicate a whole farm plan that applies a mix of strategies to move towards a more regenerative agricultural social, environmental and economic system.
Teaching and assessment
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