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Browse Programs Admission InformationThe main objectives of this training are to foster a culture of shared expertise on issues related to the protection of strategic crops, ecosystems, and biodiversity conservation, as well as to provide answers to questions raised by new professional demands, prompted by the government's implementation of new procedures and regulations concerning the development and protection of agricultural and forest environments, landscape architecture, and environmental issues. Finally, to train professionals in the field of decision-making support for elected officials and politicians in the development of economic projects through the implementation of phytosanitary diagnostics, development plans, charters, and biotope management actions.
Core courses are designed to provide students with the fundamentals of plant health. They generally cover the essential concepts needed to understand the basic principles of the discipline. Here are some examples of topics covered in core courses:
1. Agricultural Zoology: Identification, systematics, and economic importance of plant pests.
2. Plant Pathogens: Structure, classification, host-parasite interactions, symptomatology, diagnosis.
3. Integrated Pest Management: Definitions, principles, application, examples, methodologies, limitations, and case studies.
4. Ecotoxicology: Definitions, sources of pollution, types of toxicity, assessment parameters, toxicological tests. 5. Control methods: chemical control, biotechnological control, agronomic solutions, biological management (natural enemies, antagonists)
6. Bioecology of pests: interactions with the environment, abiotic factors, factors of establishment and elimination.
In addition to the fundamental courses, students will benefit from knowledge of the new phytosanitary challenges caused by the pressures of climate change and trade, and consequently the regulatory barriers and scientific advances in diagnostics, control, and proactive risk analysis required to address this new context, which seriously threatens food security at the local, regional, and global levels.
For Bachelor's Degree Offers: Bachelor's Degree in Experimental Sciences
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