Provide farm managers, extension agents and agricultural professional with practical tools to better manage salinity at farm and district level
Enable farming professionals to better manage crops by understanding their physiological responses to abiotic stresses
Allow beneficiaries to acquire new technical skills about new crops production and valorization pathways
Enable beneficiaries to acquire practical skills for salinity mapping
The Master Courses
The courses of this executive master program are:
M1.Soil and water salinity management
M2.Crop diversification and plant responses to abiotic stress
M3.Biosaline agriculture best practices
M4.Biosaline agriculture valorisation and value chain
M5.Soil and water salinity mapping: Applications
M6.Experimentation, data analysis and statistics
M7.Salinity, water and crop modelling
M8.Economic analysis and project management
Summary
Given the increased problem of salinity in Morocco and Africa and the urgent need to improve crop productivity and increase food availability under marginal environment. It is necessary to strengthen the technical capacity of agricultural engineers in the field of biosaline agriculture to adapt our agricultural systems under marginal environments to be more resilient and resistant to salinity problem and climate change challenges. The overall objective of this Executive Master is to strengthen the technical capacity of farms managers, engineers, and professionals and to provide them with a specialized technical package to help them overcoming salinity issues at farm level.
Description
The specific objectives of this Executive Master are:
To understand soil and water salinization problem and its impacts on soil and crop productivity.
To explore mechanisms about plants responses to salinity and ways to improve genetically crops to be more tolerant to salinity
To explore the best practices of biosaline agriculture at all value chain levels
To acquire more practical knowledge and methodologies about soil salinity mapping and modelling using new technologies and models
Key Benefits
Improve your knowledge and technical skills in biosaline agriculture and learn how to manage salinity problem and adopt best cropping practices
Who Should Attend
Candidates must hold at least 2-year higher education qualification: Bac+2. A professional experience in Agriculture, soil and water, environment, etc is appreciated.This master is addressed to the following profiles:
Technician
Engineer/Master
Researchers (PhD, Postdoc, Profs)
Specific modules can also be delivered to farmers and cooperatives
Pr. OUKARROUM Abdallah
Director of School of Agriculture, Fertilization and Environmental Sciences (ESAFE)
Director of School of Agriculture, Fertilization and Environmental Sciences (ESAFE)
Abdallah earned his PhD in Plant Biology 2007) with emphasis on Plant Physiology, from Geneva University, Switzerland. He acquired an extensive experience in the study of alterations in photosynthetic apparatus of plants under environmental stress. At University of Montreal in Canada, Abdallah studied inhibitory effects and bioaccumulation of metals and metallic nanoparticles at membrane and cellular level on aquatic plants. Abdallah has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles indexed by web of science. He is currently the director of ESAFE et UM6P.
Pr. BROUZIYNE Youssef
Research Professor at IWRI-International Water Research Institute
Research Professor at IWRI-International Water Research Institute
Dr.Youssef Brouziyne has an agronomic engineering degree from the IAV Hassan II in Morocco, a MSc. degree in Mediterranean Crops from the MAI of Bari in Italy, a MSc. degree in Marketing and Product Development from the IAE of Metz in France, and a PhD in Water and Environmental Sciences from the FST of Fez in Morocco; in addition to various professional qualifications and certifications such as: Project Management Certification from the CPD Certification Service in the UK and the Value-Based Design qualification by the French Association of Value Analysis.
For more than 10 years, Dr.Brouziyne worked on agribusiness projects development and sustainability stewardship in North and West Africa as well as in Southern Europe for top-class multinational companies in the agribusiness such as: Corteva Agriscience (DowDuPont), Bureau Veritas (Agrifood BU), and IPL Ltd UK-ASDA (WalMart family). He has also been a consultant in climate change’ related topics for USAID funded projects in Morocco.
In 2019, Dr.Brouziyne has joined the International Water Research Institute (IWRI), the water and climate program of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco, as researcher and assistant professor. His research and education efforts are focusing on the tradeoffs between sustainability, resilience, and performance in agriculture within the Climate-Smart Agriculture framework.
Dr.Brouziyne is managing and contributing to various internationally founded R&D projects on: Climate change impacts on crops and water systems, climate change mitigation options in agriculture, digital agriculture, and eco-hydrological ecosystems preservation. In 2021, Dr.Brouziyne received the ISHS Young Minds Award during the IV All Africa Horticultural Congress in Dakar from the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) for his research on Climate-Smart Agriculture opportunities to empower the farming sector in Morocco and Africa.