MOOC “Powering Agriculture – Sustainable Energy for Food”

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The tellurian beginning “Powering Agriculture – An Energy Grand Challenge for Development” (PAEGC) is rising a giveaway Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in team-work with TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences. The 8-week course, that will run from Feb 1st to Mar 27th 2016, introduces hurdles and solutions for tolerable appetite use in a cultivation and food sector.

Around one third of a appetite used worldwide goes into a prolongation and estimate of food from margin to table. Given a stream appetite complement mix, a agrifood zone is however heavily contingent on hoary fuel inputs for production, transport, estimate and distribution, and contributes significantly to hothouse gas emissions. With a invariably flourishing universe race a need for food and for appetite to furnish it is increasing. At a same time millions of farmers and processors in building countries and rising economies miss entrance to purify appetite technologies for irrigation, drying, cooling, storage and other processes. How can these needs be met sustainably? We have to furnish some-more food with reduction energy, make appetite use some-more efficient, and deliver and upscale some-more purify appetite technologies.

About a Course

This MOOC will deliver participants to a Energy-Agriculture Nexus and introduces approaches for sustainably providing appetite via all stages of rural value chains. Challenges though also solutions will be analysed, petrify technologies will be examined focusing on their focus to foster entrance to purify energy. Participants will serve be familiarized with applicable outmost influences such as marketplace conditions, politics, and financing schemes of “powering agricultural” projects. Learning materials, grown by obvious experts, will be accessible as offline reading materials as good as videos on a week-by-week basement and are accompanied by assignments that will need a focus of a newly schooled skills.

Who can participate?

Everyone worldwide meddlesome in a energy-agriculture nexus. Participation is giveaway of charge. Duration and Workload Feb 1 to Mar 27 2016 (8 weeks), with a smallest of 3-4 hours a week for reading march materials and collaborative online work.

Certificates

Participants will be awarded a personalised certificate released by a PAEGC beginning and a TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences for continual grant a course. The certificate policies will follow soon.

Register here and

• benefit from a believe of eminent scientists and experts in a margin of appetite and agriculture
• exchange ideas and believe with an general network of likeminded, associate participants

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Contact

Laura Jakobeit
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Email: PoweringAg-MOOC[at]giz.de