The Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (Portuguese: ''Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz'', ESALQ) is a unit of the

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involved with research, teaching and extension of services in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

, animal husbandry, agricultural and related sciences. The ESALQ main campus, located at

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, in the

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, has seven undergraduate and eighteen graduate programs. In addition, ESALQ keeps exchange agreements with many other institutions of the world, and welcome exchange students of several nationalities. The ESALQ was founded in 1901, by Luiz de Queiroz, an agronomist and strongly innovative farmer and industrial entrepreneur. It is one of the most traditional schools of agricultural sciences of Brazil. It is composed by the main campus (campus "Luiz de Queiroz"), and the experimental stations of Areão farm (in Portuguese:"Fazenda Areão"), Anhembi, Anhumas and Itatinga.

Undergraduate Courses

* Administration * Agronomic Engineering * Biological Sciences * Economic Sciences * Environmental Management * Food Science * Forestry Engineering

Graduate programs

* Administration * Agricultural Microbiology * Agricultural Systems Engineering * Animal Science and Pastures * Applied Ecology * Applied Economics * Bioenergy (inter-unit) * Bioinformatics (inter-unit) * Crop Science * Entomology * Food Science and Technology * Forest Resources * Genetics and Plant Breeding * International Cellular and Molecular Plant Biology (PhD) (USP/ESALQ,

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) * Plant Pathology * Plant Physiology and Biochemistry * Soil and Plant Nutrition * Statistics and Agricultural Experimentation

Notable alumni

José Graziano da Silva José Graziano da Silva (born November 17, 1949) is a Brazilian American agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil. Between 2003 and 2004, Graziano served in the Luiz Inácio L ...

– Director General of the

Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

(2012-2015)

External links

* http://www.en.esalq.usp.br/ University of São Paulo {{Brazil-university-stub