As a UNIFI student, you need to compile and submit a Study Plan (Piano di Studi) in which you specify which elective courses you will take. Study Plans are entered and modified online using the SOL portal during a specific period of each academic year, using your usual UNIFI web credentials.

Remember that a study plan may be modified at the beginning of the II year and, in some specific case, a few months before graduation. 

The subjects of each course (syllabus) can be checked here; after entering the name of the course you will be able to access the English language pages of the syllabus.

Find below a list of the baseline Study Plan of the course, but please refer to the syllabus link for checking the programs for the current Academic Year.

Courses

Important note: since the first Academic Year of the MSc in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture is 2025/2026, in this phase only the list of the courses is available. More information will be available soon.

First Year:

• Tropical tree crops - 6 credits
• Tropical and subtropical plant and soil ecology - 6 credits. Modules: Tropical and subtropical plant ecology (3) ; Tropical and subtropical soils (3)
• Climate smart agronomy and land management - 12 credits. Modules: Climatology (4); Agronomy (4); Land suitability (4)
• Sustainable water resources management - 9 credits
• Pests and diseases of tropical crops - 6 credits. Modules: Plant Pathology (3); Entomology (3)
• Plant genetics and breeding - 6 credits
• Project planning for sustainable rural development - 6 credits

Second Year:

• Animal genetics and aquaculture - 6 credits. Modules: Animal genetic resources (3); Tropical aquaculture (3)
• Appropriate agricultural machinery and irrigation systems - 12 credits. Modules: Irrigation systems and management (6); Agricultural machinery systems (6)
• Tropical crops and pastures - 12 credits: Tropical field crops and pastures (9); Vegetable crops (3)
• Laboratory - 6 credits
• Optional courses (esame virtuale) - 12 credits

Use of free credits

In total 12 free credits (ECTS) can be chosen by the student. This choice is free, though within the limits of the educational objectives of the course of study (see Use of free credits and free credit recognition). 

Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture
(Take note: only Year I is active during the Academic Year 2025/2026)

Year	Semester	Code	Subject	Modules	CFU	Remark
1	1		Climate smart agronomy and land management	Agronomy (AGR/02 - 4 CFU); Climatology (AGR/02 4 CFU); B034756 Land suitability (AGR/02 4 CFU)	12
1	1		Tropical and subtropical plant and soil ecology	Tropical and subtropical plant ecology (BIO/03 - 3CFU); Tropical and subtropical soils (AGR/14 - 3 CFU)	6	The course will be offered in the second semester in the academic year 2025/2026
1	1	B034745	Tropical tree crops		6
1	2	B034762	Project planning for sustainable rural development		6
1	2	B031952	Plant genetics and breeding		6	The course will be offered in the first semester in the academic year 2025/2026
1	2	B034759	Pests and diseases of tropical crops	Plant pathology (AGR/12 - 3 CFU);  B034760 Entomology (AGR/11 - 3CFU)	6	The course will be offered in the second semester in the academic year 2025/2026
1	2		Sustainable water resources management		9
Total 1st year					51
2	1		Tropical crops and pastures	Tropical field crops and pastures (AGR/02 - 9 CFU);  Vegetable crops (AGR/04 - 3 CFU)	12
2	1		Animal genetics and aquaculture	Animal genetic resources (AGR/17 - 3 CFU); Tropical aquaculture (AGR/20 - 3 CFU)	6
2	1	B019448	Appropriate agricultural machinery and irrigation systems	Irrigation systems and management (AGR/08 - 6 CFU); Agricultural machinery systems (AGR/09 - 6 CFU)	12
2	2	B021507	Laboratory		6
2	2		Optional courses  (esame virtuale)		12
2			Final dissertation		21
Total 2nd year	69
Total  Course	120

 

Natural Resources Management for Tropical Rural Development
(Take note: only Year II is active in the Academic Year 2025/2026)

Only for students enrolled in year 2024 for this Master.

Curriculum Agricultural Production (E28)

II YEAR

Year	Semester	Code	Title	CFU
2	1	B019448	Machinery systems in tropical agri-food chain	6
2	1	B019382	Rangeland management	6
2	1	B021486	Livestock production systems	6
2	1	B031952	Plant genetics and breeding	6
2	2	B021507	Laboratory	6
2	2	B020088	Dissertation	27
Total 2nd year	57
Total  Course	120

Curriculum Land and water (E29)

II YEAR

Year	Semester	Code	Title	CFU
2	1	B021498	Information technology in irrigation	6
2	1	B021500	Water resources evaluation and management	6
2	1	B021483	Land evaluation	6
2	1	B021510	Agronomy and soil management	6
2	2	B021507	Laboratory	6
2	2	B020088	Dissertation	27
Total 2nd year	57
Total  Course	120

 

Study plans for the students enrolled in the MSc in Natural Resources Management for Tropical Rural Development

• Students enrolled in 2025-2026 (Coorte 2025)
• Students enrolled in 2024-2025 (Coorte 2024)
• Students enrolled in 2023-2024 (Coorte 2023)
• Students enrolled in 2022-2023 (Coorte 2022)

 

Study plan for necessity and urgency

In cases of necessity and urgency, adequately justified, the student may submit a request for a variation to the approved study plan at least thirty days prior to the submission of the thesis application by TesiOnLine. 

 

                                                         Click here to download the form. 

_{n.b. Before to sending the form, student must ask to the segreteriastudenti.novoli(AT)unifi.it (indicating your student number - matricola) so as to receive a bulletin (issued like the one for university fees) accounting € 16,00 in order to get the virtual stamp.}

 

The following form should be sent from your personal institutional email, name.surname@edu.unifi.it, to segreteriastudenti.novoli(AT)unifi.it indicating in the E-mail object: RICHIESTA VARIAZIONE STRAORDINARIA Laureando (REQUEST OF STYDY PLAN CHAGE FOR NECESSITY AND URGENCY) with the the copy of the payment receipt of 16 € for the virtual stamp.

 

The request must be analised by the Course Committee, which will take into account the elements of necessity and urgency that must necessarily underpin the use of the extraordinary procedure for amending the plan (e.g. submission of a degree application).