Chapter 6 Disease management and protected cultivation

by Thorsten Kraska

The COVID-19 Outbreak has changed our society and consequently it will also change horticultural production. It will foster innovations in horticulture to come to a more resilient production. On the forefront of these innovations is urban horticulture and any kind of protect cultivation to make production sustainable and more resilient against risks posed by abiotic factors (e.g. climate change, drought, temperatures), biotic factors (e.g. pest and diseases, new emerging threats), and societal risks like pandemic outbreaks endangering production, distribution of food, and food safety.

6.1 Materials

Both articles are open access, but if you cannot download them from the publisher site a copy is available on eCampus).

6.2 Instructions

Inverted classroom: Please read the Opinion paper and prepare your own answer to it based on your own knowledge and experience. Use the review paper for more detailed information on the topic or use information of the more than 40 articles citing the opinion paper (use Web of Science) or other articles discussing the meaning of pandemic outbreaks on the meaning of protected cultivation. The major goal is to get a well-founded opinion on the meaning of pandemic outbreaks on research in the field protected cultivation as well as disease management. Based on your input we will discuss.

6.3 Literature for discussion

Paper discussion: We will discuss the article “The global rise of urban rooftop agriculture: A review of worldwide cases” (see eCampus). What is the meaning of urban rooftop gardening? Based on the article we will try to make a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats).

6.4 Term paper topics

1. “Protected cultivation” as a solution to mitigate climate change impact and to safeguard horticultural production.

2. Pest & disease management strategies in protected cultivation