What can you expect from this course?

Course content

    1. Welcome to your "How to start your farming business" course!

    2. About your instructor: years of on-the-ground experience at your disposal

    1. Your farming business plan

    2. Deciding what you are going to farm

    3. The production systems on your farm

    4. Farm waste: the hidden opportunity all around you

    5. Understanding energy systems and how you can make them work for you

    6. Understanding water and turning it to your advantage

    7. Selling what you produce

    1. Creating a business plan

    2. Why your vision and mission matters!

    3. Your operations

    4. Your production systems

    5. Your financial systems

    6. Your enterprise

    1. The circular enterprise: why knowing that it is can increase turnover and reduce costs

    2. What is a circular enterprise?

    3. The opportunity that is right in front of you

    4. Traceability and why it matters more than you think

    5. Marketing and distribution

    6. Biological processes: a primer

    1. Fundamentals of farming design

    2. A message to farmers

    3. A message to those who think they don't have much

Course information

  • Gratis
  • 24 lezioni
  • 1 ora di contenuto video

Your instructor

Senior Lecturer Dr Naudé Malan

Dr. Naudé Malan is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He is the convener of the multi-stakeholder engagement project Izindaba Zokudla that aims to create opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system in Soweto. The project engages with and links urban farmers, entrepreneurs, academics, civil servants and other stakeholders and aims at participatory technology and enterprise development.

Naudé has published on the South African social welfare system, agriculture and human rights and recently has developed social methodologies for agricultural development, institutional innovation and technology design for urban and small-farmers. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies at Cambridge University.

He has taught in the Faculties of Humanities, Art, Design and Architecture, Law and Engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
iZindaba Zokudla: Innovation in the Soweto Food System
https://www.facebook.com/IzindabaZokudla/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naude_Malan https://johannesburg.academia.edu/NaudeMalan

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