Postgraduate Training Course Food Chains in Agriculture
The Triesdorf campus of the University of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf is hosting the continuing education project "Food Chains in Agriculture" for African Master's graduates. Initiator of the project was Prof. Dr. Otmar Seibert. In a 5-month postgraduate course "Postgraduate Training Course Food Chains in Agriculture" [1], the maximum of 25 participants from African countries are trained in the following areas:
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- Sustainable land management.
- Improving post-harvest processes.
- More efficient use of resources, including local production.
- Use of renewable energy
- Building agricultural product-specific regional value chains.
- Developing new (regional) markets for agricultural products.
- Founding entrepreneurial livelihoods