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L2B.10: Biodiversity and Fertilizer Use

Taught by: Achim Dobermann

“Fertilizers and biodiversity” discusses how fertilizer use impacts biodiversity. We define biodiversity and analyze the major trends and biodiversity threats observed in recent decades, as well as how nutrients have negative or positive effects on different aspects of biodiversity.

L2B.09: Sustainable Food Production Chains

Taught by: Ken Giller

The fundamentals underlying regenerative agriculture will be extensively covered in this class. It will describe how the idea came to be, if it can withstand scrutiny, its primary criticisms, how it is used in the agricultural field, and lastly, a description of various methods to measure and monitor progress.

L2B.06: Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture

Taught by: Jessica Fanzo, Martin Broadley

This class will link agriculture versus human nutrition, nutrition-sensitive farming and biofortification, and will delve into how food crops are produced with higher nutritional value to address persisting as well as emerging mineral nutrient deficiencies and the triple burden of undernutrition which are micronutrient malnutrition, overweight/obesity and other non-communicable diseases.

L2A.07: Sustainable Phosphate Production – Part 2

Taught by: Julian Hilton, Malika Moussaid

This new, more advanced learning unit looks at the major changes now going on in valorisation and use of phosphogypsum (PG) all around the world. In the process the module introduces the third IFA PG Report “From Waste to Inventory” – the PG business case. The report is in three sections: A - covering the financial and investment case; B - case studies on a wide range of technical and scientific activities associated largely with road building, cement and construction materials and of course soil amendments for saline, sodic soils and sulphur-deficient soils; and C - some of the remarkable break-out uses of PG now already in or close to entering global markets.

L1.08: Biodiversity: The next wave in sustainability

Taught by: Franck Gbaguidi

This class aims to provide an overview of biodiversity-related impacts, risks, and opportunities for the fertilizer industry. It will explore key nature-related definitions and concepts as well as barriers to and drivers of change.

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