Environmental Impact and Innovation in Agriculture

Have elementary knowledge of agricultural and livestock activities.

Considering that the course will not run in the 2024/2025 academic year, the course will essentially be taught through tutorials, depending on the contact made by the students enrolled. 

Have knowledge to develop an environmental impact project within national standards. Obtain rational criteria for the implementation of decisions related to the integrated management of agricultural areas. Develop “catalogs” of good practices with the most current environmental protection practices. Equate the consequences of agricultural activity in the environment. Know methodologies for assessing and monitoring environmental impacts.

Module 1 – Identification of present and future environmental challenges, with particular focus on the role of agricultural activities as polluting activities and their potential purifier. The legal framework for Environmental Impact Assessments in Portugal and the European Union, in particular with regard to agricultural activities. Use of organic fertilizers, collection, composting and distribution. Products and by-products of agricultural activity.

Module 2 – Environmental impact of agricultural activity. Importance of soil a) Limits to the application of fertilizers, manure and sludge. b) Environmental control of pesticide application. Portuguese Standards for Integrated Production and Integrated Protection (production manuals, methods used and objectives to be achieved).

Module 2 – Livestock activity and biodiversity. Present examples of “catalogs” of good practices. Effluent treatment and conversions in livestock facilities.

• - Apresentação e discussão oral - 40.0%
• - Monografia - 60.0%

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