Learn the sciences that will shape a sustainable greener world. Students in our undergraduate program master the knowledge, skills and technologies that will feed, house, design and fuel the future, including plant breeding and genetics, plant disease and pest management, plant/soil interactions, and agribusiness management. Our curriculum prepares you to contribute in careers that improve.The Tropical Agriculture and the Environment program (TAE) offers students broad, hands-on experience in a range of agricultural systems, covering ornamental horticulture and landscape design, vegetable and fruit production, and agribusiness management. Our goal is to prepare and empower you to contribute to more efficient, sustainable, less resource-intensive production systems that conserve our living environment. This goal requires an understanding of complex social, legal and economic issues, as well as data-based decision making, creative problem solving, and policy analysis.The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa, the University) is an accredited land-grant university in the tropics, and its program in Tropical Agriculture and the Environment has a unique tropical emphasis. Regions near the equator are experiencing rapid population growth and significant environmental stress. Our program emphasizes the study of food crops such as vegetables, tropical fruits and nuts, coffee, and new crops with potential for future growth. Other vital areas of study focus on urban agriculture and the quality of urban and suburban living, including landscape and foliage plants, anthuriums, orchids, tropical lei, cut flowers, nursery plants and turfgrass.