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Unit description
Develops regenerative strategies to modify and manage rural or urban farm enterprises through applying farming system assessment techniques for whole farm planning.. 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
1. Using life cycle assessment to guide agricultural strategies
2. Water and waterways within agroecosystems
3. Ecologically based pest, weed and disease management
4. Monitoring and managing the soil food web
5. Feeding the food web within agroecosystems
6. Harnessing ecosystem services and markets: carbon, water and biodiversity
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/or livestock management |
| 2 | identify and apply ecological strategies as a team to address weed, pests and disease issues. |
| 3 | apply a farming system 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/or livestock management
- identify and apply ecological strategies as a team to address weed, pests and disease issues.
- apply a farming system 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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