2025
Animal Production Systems and Environment
Name: Animal Production Systems and Environment
Code: ZOO14008I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Animal Science
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
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Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives: To provide students with knowledge of the characteristics, size and importance of animal production and its products in the context of national, European and worldwide. To identify the guidelines for agricultural policies that most affect animal production (CAP, national politics) and use the standards of animal production within a framework of ethical and social responsibility. To identify sustainable animal production systems that supply quality products and for other purposes (environmental services, leisure, etc.).
Skills: The students will be able to recognize the farm as place applying standards policies, agricultural technologies and animal production, within a social, ethical and environmental according with the human and natural environment.
Skills: The students will be able to recognize the farm as place applying standards policies, agricultural technologies and animal production, within a social, ethical and environmental according with the human and natural environment.
Contents
Animal production at national, european and world level: dimension of production and producers; Main characteristics of animal production systems for different livestock species - from permaculture to intensive livestock; Recent evolution of agricultural policies that condition animal production, with emphasis on the CAP and its environmental constraints; Agriculture and the environment: integration of the environmental component into the common agricultural policy; Good agricultural practices and sustainable use of natural resources; Requirements in the exercise of livestock activity within a framework of ethical, social and environmental responsibility, with emphasis on the Regulation for the Exercise of Livestock Activity; Livestock farming and organic waste production; Wastewater treatment and management from livestock activities
Teaching Methods
Work in - Teaching is based on theoretical-practical classes, where the components of exposure, contextualization, practical application and discussion of subjects will be integrated into collective sessions in the classroom.
Study visits - allow students to make contact with different types of animal production, of different livestock species, with their real functioning and their interaction with the environment.
Remote work - Availability of bibliographic resources in Moodle (lessons, miscellaneous texts, powerpoint presentations, indication of pages on the internet, digitized texts and bibliographic references for consultation).
Assessment
1) continuous assessment regime - written tests (80%) and group work (20%)
2) final evaluation regime - written test (100%)
Study visits - allow students to make contact with different types of animal production, of different livestock species, with their real functioning and their interaction with the environment.
Remote work - Availability of bibliographic resources in Moodle (lessons, miscellaneous texts, powerpoint presentations, indication of pages on the internet, digitized texts and bibliographic references for consultation).
Assessment
1) continuous assessment regime - written tests (80%) and group work (20%)
2) final evaluation regime - written test (100%)
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