This course gives you the basic knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage crop pests and help protect agricultural yields using an integrated pest management (IPM) approach. By understanding and applying the principles of IPM, you will learn how to enhance local farming practices, stabilise yields, and contribute to a more sustainable agricultural future.
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Certifications: Foundation and Practitioner
Cost: 45
Duration: 8 hours
Languages: English
Learners: 35
Who is this for?
- The farmer advisor - Understanding how to structure the IPM approach in practice, and apply different control methods will improve the advice to give farmers.
- Farmers - This course will help to implement effective, sustainable solutions by exploring IPM.
- Agricultural students - Building confidence in pest management practices, and learning more about the practical applications of pest management, will strengthen the ability to turn theory into practice.
What will you learn?
On completion, you should be able to...
- Identify factors affecting pest outbreaks
- List the most common pest groups affecting crop health
- Describe the essential steps of an integrated pest management approach
- List relevant prevention practices that reduce the risk of pests impacting crop health
- Select appropriate monitoring techniques to inform timely pest management decisions
- Describe the key factors affecting whether a pest control decision is economically viable
- Compare the advantages and limitations of different pest control methods when making an integrated pest management plan
- Use the IPM steps to decide how to manage major pest groups and add suitable, practical actions for each group into an integrated pest management plan
- Select appropriate evaluation techniques to assess the success of chosen control measures
Digital learning skills
- Join in polls and discussions to learn from others globally
- Access course materials and work through at your own pace
- Gain feedback from automated quizzes and activities to test your knowledge
- Improve critical thinking skills by investigating internet resources
Skills Framework
This course maps to a range of related skills in the Skills for Agriculture Framework (SFA). By completing this course, you will build on the following skills:
United Nations (UN) Sustainability Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth.
This course aligns with the following sustainability goals:
Type: Self-study
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Study hours: 8
Cost: 45
Languages: English
Certifications: Foundation and Practitioner
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify factors affecting pest outbreaks
- List the most common pest groups affecting crop health
- Describe the essential steps of an integrated pest management approach
- List relevant prevention practices that reduce the risk of pests impacting crop health
- Select appropriate monitoring techniques to inform timely pest management decisions
- Describe the key factors affecting whether a pest control decision is economically viable
- Compare the advantages and limitations of different pest control methods when making an integrated pest management plan
- Use the IPM steps to decide how to manage major pest groups and add suitable, practical actions for each group into an integrated pest management plan
- Select appropriate evaluation techniques to assess the success of chosen control measures
Structure:
This course is made up of 3 sections:
- Section 1: Introduction to the value of effective crop pest management, foundational information about major crop pest groups, and the basic steps of the IPM process.
- Section 2: A set of exploration activities focusing on the prevention, monitoring, decision-making and intervention steps in the IPM process, with discussions and worked examples.
- Section 3: Investigating how the steps of IPM can be applied to the major crop groups, considering key questions to guide conversations with farmers when co-creating and evaluating custom IPM plans.
Audience:
- The farmer advisor - Understanding how to structure the IPM approach in practice, and apply different control methods will improve the advice to give farmers.
- Farmers - This course will help to implement effective, sustainable solutions by exploring IPM.
- Agricultural students - Building confidence in pest management practices, and learning more about the practical applications of pest management, will strengthen the ability to turn theory into practice.
Digital Learning skills:
- Join in polls and discussions to learn from others globally
- Access course materials and work through at your own pace
- Gain feedback from automated quizzes and activities to test your knowledge
- Improve critical thinking skills by investigating internet resources
UN Goals:
This course aligns with the following sustainability goals: