Biosaline Agriculture

What you will learn

This Executive Master's will:

Provide farm managers, extension agents and agricultural professional with practical tools to better manage salinity at farm and district level
Enable farming professionals to better manage crops by understanding their physiological responses to abiotic stresses
Allow beneficiaries to acquire new technical skills about new crops production and valorization pathways
Enable beneficiaries to acquire practical skills for salinity mapping

The Master Courses

The courses of this executive master program are:

M1.Soil and water salinity management
M2.Crop diversification and plant responses to abiotic stress
M3.Biosaline agriculture best practices
M4.Biosaline agriculture valorisation and value chain
M5.Soil and water salinity mapping: Applications
M6.Experimentation, data analysis and statistics
M7.Salinity, water and crop modelling
M8.Economic analysis and project management

Summary

Given the increased problem of salinity in Morocco and Africa and the urgent need to improve crop productivity and increase food availability under marginal environment. It is necessary to strengthen the technical capacity of agricultural engineers in the field of biosaline agriculture to adapt our agricultural systems under marginal environments to be more resilient and resistant to salinity problem and climate change challenges. The overall objective of this Executive Master is to strengthen the technical capacity of farms managers, engineers, and professionals and to provide them with a specialized technical package to help them overcoming salinity issues at farm level.

Description

The specific objectives of this Executive Master are:

To understand soil and water salinization problem and its impacts on soil and crop productivity.
To explore mechanisms about plants responses to salinity and ways to improve genetically crops to be more tolerant to salinity
To explore the best practices of biosaline agriculture at all value chain levels
To acquire more practical knowledge and methodologies about soil salinity mapping and modelling using new technologies and models

Key Benefits

Improve your knowledge and technical skills in biosaline agriculture and learn how to manage salinity problem and adopt best cropping practices

Who Should Attend

Candidates must hold at least 2-year higher education qualification: Bac+2. A professional experience in Agriculture, soil and water, environment, etc is appreciated. This master is addressed to the following profiles: