Master's Degree in Agrifood Sustainability
Pavia, Italy
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,500 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* The Application Period for 2024-25 intake is 13th November 2023 – 6th June 2024.
** for EU students, fees are based on students' family income. They range from about 156 euro to 4000 euro per year. For non-EU students a flat rate is determined according to the citizenship and range from 400 euro to 4500 euro
Introduction
The Master’s Degree Course in Agri-food sustainability provides solid preparation in agricultural sciences and technologies, through a multidisciplinary vision, aimed at achieving high production, attentive to the health of the environment, agricultural producers, and consumers, focusing on sustainability (one health).
The course includes experimental and demonstrative activities held in the agricultural lands owned by the University and through various projects of the Lombardy Region with partner agricultural companies, both conventional and organic.
The graduate will therefore be able to plan and manage agricultural production (in particular the quality of supply chains), acquiring a broad agro-ecological knowledge that includes the food market, developing and managing innovation of companies and agricultural supply chains; as well as taking into account post-production and the agri-food products’ impact on human health.
Career Opportunities
The degree program will allow graduates to:
- Manage agricultural companies;
- Carry out environmental monitoring and analysis of agroecosystems;
- Exploit and promote local biodiversity sustainably;
- Use soil conservation and protection tools and techniques;
- Optimize traditional techniques;
- Be able to evaluate, improve, and certify process and product quality also through the use of innovative methodologies.
Graduates of this master's degree course can be hired in:
- Farms of various levels and dimensions, including in the organic sector;
- Storage and processing companies,
- Agro-food marketing companies;
- Professional consultancy for small and medium-sized enterprises;
- Social agriculture and non-profit (NGO) organizations;
- Associations and institutional bodies representing the social and productive partners or international organizations (UN, FAO, etc.).
Program Outcome
The degree program will allow graduates to:
- manage agricultural companies.
- carry out environmental monitoring and analysis of agro-ecosystems.
- exploit and promote local biodiversity in a sustainable way.
- use soil conservation and protection tools and techniques.
- optimize traditional techniques.
- be able to evaluate, improve and certify process and product quality also through the use of innovative methodologies.
Curriculum
Curriculum 1: Agroecology and Sustainable Farming (ASF)
- Plant nutrition and quality of Agrifood production
- Conservation and promotion of plant genetic resources
- European Agrifood Law
- Food Marketing
- Local horticultural production chains
- Agroecology and biodiversity conservation
- Sustainable grass crops, integrated productions, organic farming
- Sustainable management of water resources in agriculture
- Plant pathology
- One subject to be chosen from this list: Forest ecosystems and ecology of farming systems / Forests and environmental sustainability in agriculture
- One subject to be chosen from this list: Soil conservation and precision agriculture / Soil geochemistry and precision agriculture
- One subject to be chosen from this list: Spectroscopic Methods for Food Safety / Weed systematics / Agronomic utilization of residuals / Soil microbiology / Local livestock breeds at risk of genetic erosion or extinction / Lithology and Agrifood productions / Seeds for sustainable agriculture / Soil Science
- Other activities ( for foreign students it can be the Italian language)
- Traineeship
Curriculum 2: Food Quality and Nutrition (FNQ)
- Plant nutrition and quality of Agrifood production
- Conservation and promotion of plant genetic resources
- European Agrifood Law
- Food Marketing
- Local horticultural production chains
- Agroecology and biodiversity conservation
- Sustainable grass crops
- Fundamentals of food technology
- Vegetable foods and agrochemicals for plant defense. Chemistry and Toxicology
- Integrated course in nutrition and human health
- One subject to be chosen from this list: Secondary plant metabolism and medicinal plants / Secondary plant metabolism and nutritional and nutraceutical properties of mushrooms
- One subject to be chosen from this list: Spectroscopic Methods for Food Safety / Weed systematics / Agronomic utilization of residuals / Soil microbiology / Local livestock breeds at risk of genetic erosion or extinction / Lithology and Agrifood productions / Seeds for sustainable agriculture / Soil Science
- Other activities ( for foreign students it can be the Italian language)
- Traineeship
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
EDiSU Pavia (Ente per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario) is an Agency for the Right to Higher Education, which was established by the University of Pavia and is under its direct control.
Edisu scholarship benefits include:
- Accommodation in a Residence (“Collegio”);
- One meal per day at the Canteens;
- A sum of money, according to the student’s economic situation.
Edisu scholarship for off-site students can consist of:
- Accommodation in a Collegio + One meal per day at the Canteens + Up to 3.967,00 euros;
- One meal per day at the Canteens + Up to € 6.370,00 euros.