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BI1267

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems

The course will give fundamental understandings of application of such basic disciplines as biology, ecology, and technology for environmentally sound and sustainable management of pests, diseases and weeds in horticultural crops. The course will follow up on species knowledge and principles from basic plant protection courses aiming at management programs that are logical, practical and possible to adopt by farmers.

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

BI1267-10117 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for BI1267

Academic year 2023/2024

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10057)

2023-08-28 - 2023-10-30

Academic year 2021/2022

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10121)

2021-08-30 - 2021-11-01

Academic year 2020/2021

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10162)

2020-08-31 - 2020-11-01

Academic year 2019/2020

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10080)

2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31

Academic year 2018/2019

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10051)

2018-09-03 - 2018-11-11

Academic year 2017/2018

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10095)

2017-08-28 - 2017-11-05

Academic year 2016/2017

Integrated Pest Management in Sustainable Production Systems (BI1267-10145)

2016-08-29 - 2016-11-06

Syllabus and other information

Grading criteria

Criteria

1. Explain fundamental application and integration of basic disciplines as biology, ecology and technology for development of sustainable management of pests, diseases and weeds in crops that are logical, practical and possible to adopt by farmers.

2. Explain the definition of integrated pest management and its historical background.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of or describe the authorities responsibility in plant protection issues in the agricultural sector in a European perspective

4. Explain the environmental impact of different pest management strategies

Course performance and participation

What will be assessed?

Journal club; Factsheet; Case study-

- Group work, individual work, and oral presentation; and oral exam

Journal club; Factsheet ; Case study-- Group work, individual work, and oral presentation; and oral exam

Case study-- Group work, individual work, and oral presentation; and oral exam

Journal club;; Case study-- Group work, individual work, and oral presentation; and oral exam

all

GRADE 5

- Excellent judgement

- Very high level of independent thinking

- Synthesis of concepts

- Ability to evaluate and make recommendations between several possible solutions

- Meets all criteria for a 4

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- Excellent judgement

- Very high level of independent thinking

- Synthesis of concepts

- Ability to evaluate and make recommendations between several possible solutions

- Meets all criteria for a 4

GRADE 4

- Sound judgement

- High level of independent thinking

- Advanced

integration of concepts

- Ability to suggest multiple solutions to a problem

- Assignments delivered on time with no rewrites required

- Meets all criteria for a 3

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- Sound judgement

- High level of independent thinking

- Advanced integration ofconcepts

- Ability to suggest multiple solutions to a problem

- Assignments delivered on time with no rewrites required

- Meets all criteria for a 3

GRADE 3

- Basic skills in judgement and independent thinking

- Basic understanding of core concepts

  • Application of core concepts to real- worldsituations

- basic skills of judgement and independent thinking and understanding of concepts

- basic skills of judgement and independent thinking and understanding of concepts

- Basic skills in judgement and independent thinking

- Basic understanding of core concepts

  • Application of core concepts to real- world situations

- Insightful participation in the farm excursions, group discussions and presentations, and all requiredactivities

- High Quality oralpresentations

Grading Procedure: A grade of 3 for all of the learning goals and course performance must be achieved in order to pass the class. Higher grades will be determined based on the student's learning goals 1 and 4. When group work is assessed, the performance of the group can raise and individual grade, but cannot lower one, i.e. if a student's individual activities would score higher than the group performance, the student will be given the higher grade.

The weight given to the evaluated activities will be:

Evaluation of IPM in practice: presentations from farm visits:

5%

Journal club:

10%

Fact sheet for growers or the public:

10%

Final Project:

50%

Oral Exam:

25%

Litterature list

Radcliffe, E.B., Hutchison, W.D. & Cancelado, R.E. (eds). 2009. Integrated Pest Management, Concepts, Tactics, Stategies and Case Studies. Cambridge University Press, UK.

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Agroecology - Master's Programme Horticultural Science - Master's Programme Plant Biology for Sustainable Production - Master's Programme Plant Biology for Sustainable Production - Master's programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 38060 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Horticultural Science Biology Horticultural science
Course code: BI1267 Application code: SLU-10117 Location: Alnarp Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Plant Protection Biology Pace: 100%