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Overview
Farmers, consumers, processors, and traders are increasingly interested in high value products that fulfil ethical, social, ecological, and economic quality standards. For this reason, a growing amount of food is produced and processed according to the standards of Organic Farming. As Organic Farming is based on a holistic approach thus the production, processing and marketing of organically grown food requires special skills and knowledge. To meet this demand the master programme Organic Agricultural Systems and Agroecology was designed and offers an education related to all aspects of the organic sector and agroecology.
The programme
Special skills and knowledge comprise and link ecological, economic, political, cultural, geographical as well as production related characteristics of sustainable land-use systems (organic crop production, organic animal husbandry, organic farming in the tropics and subtropics, organic food chains and networks, influence of European policy on the development of the organic sector, consumer demands, organic market development in different European countries etc.).
Learning and research is problem- and project-oriented using practical inter- and transdisciplinary methods. This approach enables critical reflection and discrete thinking to design sound and sustainable land-use systems.
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Visit official programme websiteProgramme Structure
Courses include:
- Participatory methods in development research and practice
- Methods and tools of rural development
- Core seminar rural development
- Nature and landscape conservation economics
- Principles of empirical research methods in the social sciences
- Participation and conflict resolution
- Organisational behaviour and gender issues
- Business administration and marketing in Austrian agriculture
- Direct marketing
- Decision support systems
- Global networking
- Principles of law for biotechnology
- Plant biochemistry
- Plant biotechnology
- Practical course in plant biotechnology
- Bioclimatology
- Soil water management
- Soil conservation and soil protection
- Lecture series in soil, water and atmosphere
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
120 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Agribusiness AgricultureAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any academic requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT The TOEFL iBT® is given online through the internet at designated testing site. The test measures your English-language abilities in an academic setting. The score refers to the total score of 4 subjects (writing, listening, speaking, and reading), each subject has a range of 0 - 30. 90
Other requirements
General requirements
- Students require a Bachelor of Science (BSc) or an equivalent degree in Agriculture or a related discipline (e.g. Biology, Food Technology, Nutrition Sciences, Environmental Sciences) following at least three years of university studies.
- Students who hold a Bachelor degree in Economics are admissible at the University of Hohenheim and can choose Aarhus University as host university for the second year of their studies.
- Students to be admitted at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna have to prove definite content-related requirements.
Tuition Fee
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International
1454 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the original amount of 727 EUR per semester and a duration of 24 months. -
National
726 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the original amount of 363 EUR per semester and a duration of 24 months.
Funding
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