Crop modeling

· Teach the basic principles of agronomic process simulation, and the methods to adapt agronomic models at different crops, soils and climates.
· Favour learning of a process-based quantitative approach to analyse the interactions crop x environment x management.
· Provide examples of model calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis using case studies.

Know and understand:
· principles of cropping system models;
· ways to simulate crop development and growth;
· ways to simulate crop response to some abiotic and biotic stresses;
· model calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis.
Be able to:
· implement simple crop development and growth models;
· apply these models at different climatic conditions (present and future);
· carry out calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis.