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School of Agriculture - University of Lisbon Doctoral Program In Agricultural Innovation In Tropical Food Chains
School of Agriculture - University of Lisbon

Doctoral Program In Agricultural Innovation In Tropical Food Chains

Lisbon, Portugal

4 Weeks

English

Full time

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EUR 2,750 *

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Introduction

A novel and innovative Ph.D. program for students from temperate countries with skills in agriculture and agri-food chains searching for tropical regions contextualization and for students from tropical countries who seek to confront their contextualized competencies with exposure to new technical and scientific knowledge, through an international training experience.

The international Ph.D. program in “Agricultural Innovation in Tropical Food Chains” is jointly offered by the University of Lisbon’s "School of Agriculture (ISA, ULisboa)" and "Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG, ULisboa)", in collaboration with the "National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV – State Laboratory)".

The course is oriented to the transformation of tropical regions’ societies, through the development of a vital, competitive, and sustainable agricultural sector.

Objectives

To offer advanced theoretical, methodological, and contextual training and to promote original and internationally competitive research.

To provide the integration of skills in agriculture, agronomic sciences and engineering, and economic science with knowledge related to the specificities of biological, environmental, and economic resources, as well as with the societies of tropical regions.

To innovate in the competitiveness of agri-food systems following a socio-ecological and integrative perspective of its particular value chains.

Understand the global dimension of human-environment interactions that underlies agricultural activity, and how the same process can explain different trajectories in distinct regions of the world:

  • Be proficient in the state of the art of agricultural innovation and management of natural and economic resources in the tropics
  • To know methodologies and tools to design and develop research and innovation that responds to questions about agriculture and tropical agri-food systems
  • Understand the multidimensionality that makes sustainable agriculture, food security, and rural development not to be development problems for the South and agro-environmental problems for the North
  • Identify solutions that cross south and north contexts and promote the participation of the economies of tropical countries in local, regional, and global systems
  • Adapt and implement contextualized solutions guided by diagnosis and critical analyses of trends, theories, and experiences

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