Course curriculum

    1. Objectives and plan

    1. Agriculture and Living Soils: Where Are We Now?

    2. What Does Farming on Living Soils Require?

    3. What Services Does Soil Biodiversity Provide?

    4. Quiz - Living Soils

    1. Open question: What is Fertile Soil?

    2. What is Fertile Soil?

    3. Quiz - Soil Fertility

    4. Earthworms: Cornerstones of Fertility

    5. Odette Menard - Leveraging Worm Activity

    6. Quiz - Earthworms

    7. Soil Organic Matter: Without Fuel, No Yield

    8. Quiz - Soil Organic Matter

    9. How Much Organic Matter is There in Agricultural Soils?

    10. Quiz - How Much Organic Matter is There in Agricultural Soils?

    11. Overview of Carbon Stocks in our Agricultural Soils

    12. Quiz - Overview of Carbon Stocks in our Agricultural Soils

    13. Mimicking Nature

    14. Lucien Seguy - What Plants Can do For Agriculture

    15. Quiz - Mimicking Nature

    16. Soil is Always Covered

    17. Hervé Covès - The Impact of Vineyard Vegetation on Frosts

    18. Quiz - Soil is Always Covered

    19. Soil is Never Tilled

    20. Quiz - Soil is Never Tilled

    21. Biomass Production is Maximized

    22. Quiz - Biomass Production is Maximized

    23. The Equation of the Desert

    24. Quiz - The Equation of the Desert

    25. The Equation of Fertility

    26. Quiz - The Equation of Fertility

    27. Hubert Charpentier - Functioning of a Direct Seeding System Under Plant Cover

    28. Olivier Husson - Crossing the Threshold of Fertility Through Carbon

    1. Agroecology in Practice

    2. Market-Gardening in Living Soils

    3. Konrad Schreiber - It Grows by Itself!

    4. Quiz - Living Soils Market-Gardening

    5. Agroecological Vineyard

    6. Quiz - Agroecological Vineyards

    7. Direct Seeding under Cover Crops

    8. Quiz - Direct Seeding

    9. Dynamic Rotational Grazing

    10. Quiz - Dynamic Rotational Grazing

    1. Congratulations on finishing the course!

    2. Course Handbook

    3. Earthworms – architects of fertile soils - FiBL

    4. Feedback Survey

Introduction to Agroecology

  • 4,5 hours
  • Self-paced
  • +20 quizzes

Carbon and biology: the origins of Agroecology

This course is a starting point for agroecology and natural soil fertility. Its aim is to present the uniqueness of our agroecological approach, based on carbon, in order to provide farmers and the general public with the keys to a better understanding of the rapidly changing world of agriculture, and to meet the challenges of the agroecological transition.

Objectives

Through training videos and videos from conferences by agro-ecology experts, this course aims to give you the following skills:

Explain the agronomic principles behind soil self-fertility

Describe the conditions for implementing a sustainable agricultural system