Run by School of Natural Sciences

20.000 Credits or 10.000 ECTS Credits

Semester 1

Organiser: Dr Eefke Mollee

This module is core for MSc Agroforestry & Food Security (residential and part-time) and is suitable both for those interested in temperate and tropical agroforestry. It introduces the concepts behind this land use system and ways in which it is practiced around the world. Topics covered are the principles of ecological interactions, agroforestry practices across the world, and the social, economic and ecosystem benefits. It is also available to students on the MSc Forestry and MSc Tropical Forestry programmes.

Agroforestry classification

Biophysical principles and interactions

Agroforestry and livelihood systems

Food security & environmental resilience

Agricultural components of agroforestry systems

Temperate and tropical agroforestry systems

Agroforestry and conservation

threshold

• show a basic ability to classify and describe agroforestry practices based upon their components and their various spatial and/or temporal arrangements.
• be able to evaluate some key agro-ecological and social-ecological interactions in agroforestry systems.
• be able to somewhat demonstrate and justify how agroforestry practices can contribute to ecosystem service provision at multiple scales of analysis.
• be able to somewhat interpret the scope and limitations of agroforestry practices taking into account local ecological and socio-economic conditions and use these to design an agroforestry case using options-by-context.

good

• show a strong ability to classify and describe agroforestry practices based upon their components and their various spatial and/or temporal arrangements.
• be able to evaluate most key agro-ecological and social-ecological interactions in agroforestry systems.
• be able to mostly demonstrate and justify how agroforestry practices can contribute to ecosystem service provision at multiple scales of analysis.
• be able to interpret the scope and limitations of agroforestry practices well taking into account local ecological and socio-economic conditions and use these to design an agroforestry case using options-by-context.

excellent

• show an excellent ability to classify and describe agroforestry practices based upon their components and their various spatial and temporal arrangements.
• be able to evaluate all key agro-ecological and social-ecological interactions in agroforestry systems.
• be able to to fully demonstrate and justify how agroforestry practices can contribute to ecosystem service provision at multiple scales of analysis.
• be able to interpret the scope and limitations of agroforestry practices excellently taking into account local ecological and socio-economic conditions and use these to design an agroforestry case using options-by-context.

1. Students are able to classify and describe agroforestry practices based upon their components and their various spatial and temporal arrangements.

2. Students are able to evaluate the key agro-ecological and social-ecological interactions in agroforestry systems.

3. Students are able to demonstrate and justify how agroforestry practices can contribute to ecosystem service provision at multiple scales of analysis.

4. Students are able to interpret the scope and limitations of agroforestry practices taking into account local ecological and socio-economic conditions and use these to design an agroforestry case using a options-by-context approach.

Type	Name	Description	Weight
Written assignment, including essay	Critical Review		20.00
COURSEWORK	Livelihood and Land use (LLU) diagram		30.00
REPORT	Practitioner Activity: Agroforestry Design		50.00

		Hours
Lecture	Lectures delivered face-to-face for residential students and on-line via Panopto/Collaborate or Teams for distance learning students. Recordings will also be available via Blackboard afterwards. Sessions will be interactive and form a combination of classical lectures and discussion groups.	36
Tutorial	This module has two 2-hour scheduled tutorials with the module that are part of assessed assignments, the critical review paper and the livelihood and land use diagram.	6
Fieldwork	Originally for residential students, a field visit to agroforestry sites of interest in the vicinity of Bangor, while distant learning students are encouraged to undertake a day's field visit, and share their experiences via the discussion forum hosted on the Blackboard site. However due to current COVID-19 conditions instead a seminar will be organised where different cases from various parts of the world are presented and discussed.	6
Private study	Personal study to support material delivered in lectures, field site visits and seminars.	152

• Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
• Numeracy - Proficiency in using numbers at appropriate levels of accuracy
• Computer Literacy - Proficiency in using a varied range of computer software
• Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
• Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
• Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
• Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sentistevely with others
• Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
• Presentation - Able to clearly present information and explanations to an audience. Through the written or oral mode of communication accurately and concisely.
• Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
• Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others

• Recognize and apply appropriate theories and concepts from a range of disciplines.
• Appreciate the interdisciplinary and/or reciprocal nature of relationships within the subject area.
• Understand the provisional nature of information and appreciate competing and alternative explanations.
• Appreciation of the complexity and diversity of processes through the study of relevant systems.
• Apply subject knowledge to the understanding and addressing of problems.
• Recognize the moral, ethical and social issues relating to the subject.
• Consider issues from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.
• Prepare effective maps, diagrams and visualizations.

Resource implications for students

no additional costs to students

Talis Reading list

http://readinglists.bangor.ac.uk/modules/ddl-4004.html

Reading list

https://rl.talis.com/3/bangor/lists/931A9B6E-8A45-5158-48FE-B1C323DEA7F2.html?lang=en&login=1

Compulsory in courses:

• D4BA: MSc Agroforestry and Food Security year 1 (MSC/AGFS)
• D4BB: MSc Agroforest & Food Security (Dist Learn) year 1 (MSC/AGFSDL)
• D4BC: MSc Agroforestry & Food Security (Dist Learning - 2 yr PT) year 1 (MSC/AGFSDL2)
• D4BD: MSc Agroforestry and Food Security (TRANSFOR-M exch prog) year 1 (MSC/AGFSTFM)
• D5AA: MSc Sustainable Tropical Forestry year 2 (MSC/STFOR)
• D5AC: MSc Tropical Forestry (Distance Learning) year 1 (MSC/TF)

Optional in courses:

• D3AO: Certificate Forestry (Distance Learning) year 1 (CERT/FORDL)
• D5AG: PGCert Tropical Forestry year 1 (CERT/TF)
• D3AP: Diploma Forestry (Distance Learning) year 1 (DIP/FORDL)
• D5AH: PGDip Tropical Forestry year 1 (DIP/TF)
• D512: MFor Forestry year 4 (MFOR/FOR)
• D514: MFor Forestry with International Experience year 5 (MFOR/FORIE)
• D513: MFor Forestry (with placement year) year 5 (MFOR/FORP)
• D3AB: MSc Environmental Forestry year 1 (MSC/EFOR)
• D3AX: MSc Environmental Forestry (TRANSFOR-M exchange programme) year 1 (MSC/EFORTFM)
• D3AQ: MSc Forestry (Distance Learning) year 1 (MSC/FORDL)