The network’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. KCO’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.
A broad area of knowledge that arranges the Academy’s courses by subject; it is not an institution or a body of teaching staff.
Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Farming, herding, forests, food and water, and the rural livelihoods they support.
- Departments
- 3
- Disciplines
- 10
- Courses
- 0
- Open
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01Departments
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Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Crops, soils, trees and fish.
5 One subject of the Academy, with its fields, courses and communities of practice.0 A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit.
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Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Livestock, herding and animal health.
2 disciplines0 courses
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Department of Food Systems and Rural Development
Food security, agricultural biotechnology and rural livelihoods.
3 disciplines0 courses
02Disciplines
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 5
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Agronomy and crop science
Crops and soils, from rain-fed wheat to mountain orchards.
0 courses4 A narrower topic within a discipline.
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Horticulture
Horticulture grows fruit, vegetables, nuts and flowers.
0 courses4 fields
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Forestry
Forestry studies woodlands, including the oak forests of the Zagros.
0 courses4 fields
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Agricultural water management
Getting more harvest from less water: irrigation, water harvesting and salinity control.
0 courses4 fields
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Fisheries and aquaculture
Fish in rivers and reservoirs, and fish farming.
0 courses3 fields
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences 2
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Animal and dairy science
Livestock, dairy and the herding life of mountain pastures.
0 courses4 fields
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Veterinary science
Animal health, and stopping diseases that pass from animals to people.
0 courses3 fields
Department of Food Systems and Rural Development 3
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Agricultural biotechnology
Breeding crops and seed for drought and heat.
0 courses3 fields
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Food security
Whether families can count on enough safe food, and how food aid and local markets help.
0 courses4 fields
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Rural development and agricultural economics
Farm incomes, markets, cooperatives and village life.
0 courses4 fields
03Classification
Where the faculty sits in the international lists of fields.
| Scheme | Code | Steward |
|---|---|---|
| OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.2 | 4 | OECD |
| ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013) | 08 | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
04Courses
No course is listed in this faculty yet.
05Communities of practice
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Community of practice: Livelihoods and Trade Facilitation
A proposed A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. on livelihoods, small enterprise and trade information.
Proposed
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@misc{kco2026_learn_faculties_agricultural_veterinary_sciences, author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}}, year = {2026}, note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0}, title = {Faculty of {Agricultural} and {Veterinary} {Sciences}}, url = {https://kurds.global/learn/faculties/agricultural-veterinary-sciences/}, howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/faculties/agricultural-veterinary-sciences/}, }- RIS
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