Training structure
CIHEAM IAM Montpellier - Partner establishment
Presentation
The MIDAS course follows intensive training provided since 2010 by CIHEAM-IAMM in partnership with several Mediterranean agricultural research and teaching institutes and with the global network FSD (Farming System Design). In this framework, more than 300 international participants have been trained. These intensive courses were previously designed to train young scientists in the analysis and evaluation of the sustainability of agricultural systems through integrated approaches. The originality of the MIDAS course, which will rely on several teaching aids as well as the network of researchers mobilized in the framework of the intensive training courses, will be to evolve to address issues related to the design of agricultural systems based on food and climate change issues and to give an important place to the role of diversities (both of cropping systems, farms and actors in the field) in the improvement of the resilience of the food function of these systems in the face of climate change and market uncertainties
Objectives
The objective of this program is to train students for careers in agricultural development engineering as project managers, project managers or development program managers in national or international organizations, study managers for local authorities or extension services, etc. It also trains engineers to join international centers and institutes such as the FAO or ICARDA. The course, with its very methodological focus on the design of innovative agricultural systems and its partnerships with several research laboratories, will encourage the preparation of doctoral theses related to the themes proposed in this course. >> More information
Know-how and skills
Within this framework, this course will enable students to acquire three types of complementary skills:
- Knowledge: designing more resilient agricultural systems in the Mediterranean that allow for better use of natural resources and that meet growing food needs. This pathway will enable students to better communicate with decision-makers at the territorial level in order to reflect on the levers that allow for better integration of climatic and market components in the development of agricultural production strategies based on agro-ecological practices.
- Know-how: knowing how to work, in participatory approaches, at the interface between different disciplines to design resilient agricultural systems. Learning to mobilize multi-criteria and multi-scale analyses in systems approaches. Finally, learn to develop and use conceptual and numerical models to design, in the form of scenarios, innovative agricultural systems, taking into account climatic and market uncertainties.
- Life skills: work and communicate in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team, develop analytical rigor and a sense of responsibility, be autonomous and a source of proposals. >> To know more
Admission
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