Agriculture and Food Security
UndergraduateLTU-AGR10012025
Course information for 2025 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
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- $578
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Agriculture and Food Security
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Describe the place of agriculture in Australia's past, present and future.
- Describe the drivers regulating the diversity of current and future agricultural systems.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how global trade and regulatory issues influence farming practices.
- Describe the importance of the interplay between natural capital and farming systems.
- Define the constraints that limit food production locally, nationally and globally.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in an understanding of agriculture.
- Work collaboratively with peers to present a solution to an agricultural problem.
- Introduction to Agriculture
- Digital technology
- Climate change impacts
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Natural capital and farming systems
- Production Constraints
- Global trade and regulation
This subject will investigate the past, present and future of agriculture, and its impact on Australia and the world. At the end of this subject, you will have a deeper understanding of the importance and context of agriculture from a range of different perspectives.
You will examine the pre-and post-colonial agriculture in Australia and around the world. In understanding the past, you will cover the influence of agriculture on Australian history, landscapes and regional and rural development. What were the historical constraints, what are the current constraints, and what will they be in the future?
To address the present, you will investigate the role of agriculture in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the role of agriculture in global food production and trade, and in the modern Australian economy.
The future of agriculture will involve the increased use of precision – in data collection and analysis, forecasting, sensors and robotics. The increase in protected cropping will mean more diseases, but more control over inputs – how will this be achieved in a sustainable way to feed the world? What will the impact of this be on future workforce and society?
- Plate to Paddock -Individual summary (500 words) (10%)
- Plate to Paddock - group presentation (5 minutes per individual, 500 words equivalance) (20%)
- Topic Assignments (3 x 500 words) (30%)
- Case study analysis (1000 words) (30%)
- Weekly Quizzes (1% each, 50 words each) (10%)
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