AGRC2003 - Regenerative Agriculture: Strategies and Practices (2020)

Not currently available in 2020

Evaluates regenerative strategies and practices to modify and manage rural landscapes. Physical modification of landscapes, planned grazing, fire and tillage are examined. Biological fertilisers, composting, syntropics, agroforestry and cover cropping are also explored. Students evaluate these methods of regenerative agriculture using real world examples.

• Regenerative agriculture - managing healthy and productive rural landscapes
• Indicators of landscape health
• Managing populations of animals and plants
• Managing agricultural landscapes
• Farmscaping: physically altering the landscape - earthworks, infrastructure and vegetation
• Disturbance: using time-controlled grazing, fire and tillage
• Inputs: biological, mineral and chemical
• Agronomic practices: agroforestry, cover cropping, pasture cropping, composting, no till, no kill.

Learning outcomes

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