This topic develops students’ understanding of how ......

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

• Understanding the need to respond to environmental challenges;

• Identify practices that need to be change because of the environmental damage they cause;

• To know the basics of organic horticulture;

• Recognizing the importance of the soil in sustainable food production;

• Design productive systems that promote functional biodiversity;

• Recognizing the complexity of the soil as the cornerstone of agroecosystems.

• Identify the principles of organic horticulture;

• Recognize the environmental and human health benefits derived from organic horticulture;

• Applying the principles of organic horticulture in practical cases;

• Identify the main species that make up functional biodiversity;

• Install ecological infrastructures;

• To explain and defend the soil as a complex ecosystem;

• To manage pests and diseases based on the biodiversity of the agroecosystem.

EQF levels 3 and/or 4. 

Plan the installation of crops in accordance with the principles of agroecosystems

Discovering biodiversity in the soil

To promote soil biodiversity through inoculation with fungi and bacteria extracted from forest soils

Using crop diversity and natural hedges helps maintain ecological balance in the agroecosystem