Training structure
CIHEAM IAM Montpellier - Partner Institution
Presentation
Climate change, agricultural management, and territories: This course focuses on the uses of territorial resources as well as the forms and functions of agriculture faced with greater climate uncertainty. It posits that climate variations:
- are a driver and lever of change for territories and their agriculture,
- reinforce the need to move towards high-quality, relocalized, and non-polluting agriculture,
- create new health and territorial environmental quality challenges by bringing new problems of pollution and disease. And these challenges require better knowledge for rapid responses. >> Learn more
Objectives
- Develop local development strategies.
- Know how to analyze the overall organization and contemporary dynamics of rural areas in France, Europe, and around the world.
- Assist local decision-makers in their territorial development projects and in mobilizing their own resources.
- Observe and understand the dynamics of rural areas and modes of local governance. Stimulate the interest of local actors in local development
- Know how to stimulate and lead operations to promote local heritage, turning it into a source of cultural activity and economic development.
- Train activity leaders, at the level of "project territories" or local authorities, who are capable of leading development strategies in accordance with the requirements imposed by the territories.
- Analyze the technical and economic functioning of agricultural operations and conduct diagnostic analyses of agricultural regions in the context of climate change.
- Implement decision-making support methods, forecasting analysis, and strategic management in individual and collective consulting initiatives, and analyze regional policies. Conduct surveys, develop optimization models for technical and production choices at the farm and regional levels. Combine biophysical and economic models for decision support in the management of natural resources and diffuse pollution in agriculture.
- Work in a multidisciplinary team, acting as an interface between technical and socio-economic aspects. >> Learn more
Program
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Climate Change, Agricultural Management, and Territories
The aim is to provide training in professions related to the development of new technologies linked to agriculture and the analysis of regional adaptation policies and projects in the agricultural and rural sector. In concrete terms, the program opens up career opportunities such as development manager in local authorities and chambers of agriculture, project and research manager in international and similar organizations, in design offices and international organizations, and software designer in private companies related to the program's themes. It aims to give students a mastery of the new models and tools that structure local public action and farm management decisions. >> Learn more