Course description
This course will give you a broad understanding of the agri-food system as a whole. You'll learn about the major issues in sustainable agriculture and the cutting-edge techniques used in crop and soil science.
Guest environmental and sustainability speakers give seminars regularly, and you'll get the opportunity to gain work experience through placements with our industrial, government and NGO partners.
You'll cover topics such as global food security, the origins of agriculture, and agricultural ecology in a changing world.
The biggest part of the course is the individual research project where you'll spend three months over the summer in our Institute for Sustainable Food. You'll work with our world-leading researchers, taking the latest scientific knowledge and applying it in real-world settings to ensure that the production and consumption of the world's food is sustainable and resilient.
Example research projects include:
- Using multiomics data to answer biological questions
- Parasitic plants as agro-ecosystem engineers
- The soil system
- Genomics in ecology and evolution
- Effects of increased CO2 on ecosystems