Preparatory material

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Please take the following sources for further reading:

 

  • Fitzpatrick, R. (2013). The mom test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
  • Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y., Bernarda, G., & Smith, A. (2015). Value proposition design: How to create products and services customers want (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
  • Ries, E. (2012). The lean Startup: How today’s entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Nikken BP Sha.

And participate in the Innov8Now! course.

Animal Health and welfare

You'll find many information on this topic on the following websites:

Lilongwe Society for the Protection and Care of Animals
www.lilongwespca.org

International Livestock Research Institute
www.ilri.org

Diversification for sustainable and productive agroecosystems

To get a first glimpse of a successful project on Diversification you can watch the following YouTube Videos:

 

•    Crop livestock integration and diversification: www.youtube.com/watch
•    Local and improved dual-purpose chickens: www.youtube.com/watch
•    Goats to markets: www.youtube.com/watch
•    Micro-dairy processing: www.youtube.com/watch

Public Health and Biosafety along the Food Chain

Check out the following publication:

 

Couto, R. de M., & Brandespim, D. F. (2020). A review of the one health concept and its application as a tool for policy-makers. In International Journal of One Health (Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 83–89). doi.org/10.14202/IJOH.2020.83-89



Antimicrobial Resistance

Check out the following sources on Antimicrobial Resistance:

  • World Health Organization. Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance (World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014).
  • Aarestrup, F. M. The livestock reservoir for antimicrobial resistance: a personal view on changing patterns of risks, effects of interventions and the way forward. Philos. Transactions Royal Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 370, 20140085 (2015).
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019).

 

 

Sustainable development and ethics in social sciences

For backround information on SDGs and Sustainable Transformation.

 

 

 

Inclusivity and business models

Please find two interesting documents for your revision:

Inclusivity

Business models

Crops in new environments- Quinoa

To learn more about the super food Quinoa and its introduction to new environments please check the following:

Effect of water stress in quinoa

Performance of quinoa breeds

Quinoa performance in water stress

World wide potential for quinoa

Quinoa propects and considerations