Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Integrating Food and Energy Production on Farmland
University of Reading and Value4Farm
This online course explored how integrating food and energy production on farmland can support a wide range of environmental, economic and social benefits. The course focused on two ways of integrating food and energy production, agrivoltaics and biogas, and looked at the benefits and challenges of installing and using these technologies on the farm and the wider environment.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Julian Park
School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply knowledge of renewable energy technologies to agricultural and farm systems
- Appraise the relevance of agrivoltaic and biogas technologies in an arable farming system
- Identify key benefits and unintended consequences of the technologies associated with the integration of food and energy production on farmland
- Analyse information and data to support the integration of food and energy production and reflect on own situation / own farm
- Recognise the importance of achieving sustainability goals (environmental, social and economic) when integrating food and energy production
Syllabus
Week 1:
- Agrivoltaics systems and production of biogas
- Installation and maintenance of agrivoltaics and biogas
- Circular farming systems
- Benefits of integrating food and energy production on farmland
Week 2:
- Financial and regulatory considerations regarding use of agrivoltaics and biogas
- Environmental and societal considerations regarding use of agrivoltaics and biogas
- Risks, risk assessment and mitigating risks
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Issued on 28th July 2026
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