Agriculture - Food, Economics - Management

MASTER IN TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

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    CIHEAM IAM Montpellier - Partner establishment

Presentation

Climate change, agricultural management and territories: This course focuses on the uses of territorial resources and the forms and functions of agriculture in the face of greater climatic uncertainty. It is based on the premise that climatic variations:
- are a driving force and a lever for change for territories and their agriculture,
- reinforce the need to move towards quality, relocalized, non-polluting agriculture,
- create new health and environmental quality issues for territories, bringing with them new pollution and disease problems. And these challenges require better knowledge for rapid responses. >> Find out more

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Objectives

- Elaborate local development strategies.
- Analyze the global organization and contemporary dynamics of rural areas in France, Europe and the rest of the world
- Help local decision-makers in their territorial development projects and mobilize their own resources
- Observe and understand the dynamics of rural areas and local governance methods.  Stimulate the interest of local players in local development
- Know how to encourage and lead operations to enhance local heritage as a means of promoting cultural activities and economic development.
- Train managers in "project territories" or local authorities capable of leading development strategies in line with the requirements imposed by the territory.
- Analyze the technical and economic functioning of the local economy. Analyze the technical and economic functioning of the farm and the diagnostic analysis of an agricultural region in the context of climate change.
- Implement decision-support methods, forecasting analysis and strategic steering in individual and collective advisory approaches, and analysis of territorial policies. Conduct surveys, develop optimization models for technical and production choices at farm and regional level. Couple biophysical and economic models for decision support in the management of natural resources and diffuse pollution in agriculture.
- Work in a multidisciplinary team, interfacing technical and socio-economic aspects. >> Find out more

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Climate Change, Agricultural Management and Territories

The aim is to train for careers in the development of new technologies linked to agriculture and the analysis of territorial adaptation policies and projects in the agricultural and rural sector. In concrete terms, the course opens the door to careers such as development manager in local authorities and chambers of agriculture, project and research manager in international and similar organizations, in consultancy firms and international organizations, software designer in private companies linked to the course themes. The aim is to enable students to master the new models and tools structuring territorial public action and farm management decisions. >> More

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