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Examples of relevant topics that can be further developed as specific thesis research are as follows:
Sustainable agriculture :
- Organic farming
- Participatory technology development
- Participatory research process
- Sustainability of land and water resources
- Sustainable livelihood systems
- Sustainable agriculture and rural development
- Sustainable intensification of safe vegetable production systems
- Agroforestry systems
- Participatory resource appraisal at watershed level
- Community-based conservation and utilization of bio-resources
- Gender in agricultural systems
Decision Support Systems in Agricultural Resource Management:
- Geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing in agriculture and resource management
- Decision support systems in agriculture
- Agricultural systems modeling and simulation
- Crop and soil models for decision support systems
- Land use system analysis and land evaluation.
- Crop yield prediction and crop management strategies
- Soil erosion modeling
- Integrated watershed management
- Application of multi-criteria decision-making in agricultural planning and resource management.
- Agroclimatological data monitoring and analysis.
Agribusiness and Management
- Economics and management of agricultural and natural systems
- Agribusiness management
- Marketing of agricultural and agroforestry products
- Market-oriented production planning and management
- Small-scale integrated farm-management
- Contract farming
- Marketing management of farm outputs, inputs and services
- Cooperatives and farmers' organization and effectiveness
- Small rural enterprises (food and non-food)
- Financial management of small agribusiness firms
- Export of non-traditional agricultural products
- Risk management for production of agricultural commodities
- Logistics management
- Food demand analysis
- Retail marketing analysis
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