[Instructor] Nigussie Haregeweyn AYEHU

Course description

This course is designed to build the capacity of graduate students to enable them contribute for global progress in maintaining a stable supply of food and resources, environmental conservation, and promotion of health and welfare of the drylands of our world. The course covers interactive class lectures, group presentations and individual term paper presentations involving several case studies from different parts of the world. The course emphasizes acquisition of theoretical and practical abilities and also promotes creative scientific abilities.

Message from Prof.Nigusse

There are no as such specific prerequisites to take this course; it is only sufficient to be concerned about and determined to solve the ongoing human-induced accelerated land degradation particularly in the drylands and developing countries that could best be addressed through promoting and implementing sustainable land management practices

[Theme / Scientific journal structure, logics and writing skills]

[Instructor / Shaoxiu MA]

Course description

The aim of this course is to enhance students' writing skills by learning about the purpose and range of journals, their structure and logic from scientific journals.

Students can understand the basic rules of scientific article writing, learn how to deal with the complexities of reading and writing practical articles and how to identify good quality articles.

Message from Prof. Ma

There are no specific qualifications for participation. Feel free to join, communicate and improve your level.

[Theme / Plant breeding, Stress resilience, Sustainable food production, climate change]

[Instructor / Yasir Serag ALNOR]

Course description

This course is designed to provide knowledge on food production and the challenges of food production under changing climate. The students will learn about the concept of climate change and its effect on food production, the basics of plant breeding techniques, plant and environment interaction, sustainable food production, the role of plant breeding in climate change mitigation and resilience, the concept of integrated plant breeding, and how different knowledge can be integrated with plant breeding to provide solutions to the food security problems.

Message from Prof.Yasir

This course will provide you with the basic concept of plant breeding and how it can be integrated with other disciplines to provide solutions for food security. The course will provide skills of multidisciplinary thinking.