The main focus of the department is not only to carry out research in the field of agricultural and household development as well as institutional strengthening in tropical areas or poor regions, but also to train professionals able to compete in today's globalized labour market.

The department focuses mainly on issues related to the evaluation of forestry profitability and efficiency, positive and negative instruments of industry management, forestry and environmental policy issues, forest and natural resource valuation issues in general, and selected aspects of environmental protection.

The department provides, apart from scientific activities, also teaching of professional forestry subjects for bachelor and master courses in both full-time and combined form of study. Lectures and exercises are conducted in both Czech and English.

The department focuses on botany, dendrology, forest ecology, phytocenology and typology.

The scientific and pedagogical activities of the department focus on the following fields: botany, dendrology, phytocenology and forest typology.

The department covers the area related to primary forest wood processing and mainly includes the field of wood science as the initial discipline of sawmill technology, wood technology for the processing of semi-finished wood products, wood technology.

Teaching in forest establishment and cultivation. The department's research activities include projects affecting, in addition to current forestry problems, the restoration of forest ecosystems in anthropically heavily stressed and degraded conditions, as well as the dynamics of natural and near-natural forest development.

The department provides teaching of a wide but specialized range of subjects of zoological and hunting nature. The basis of the teaching consists of subjects related to hunting management and zoology. An important research area is the study of the spatial activity of game.

Our department is involved in the education of students mainly in the study fields of animal production, breeding, special breeds, hobby breeds, equine breeding, cynology and zoo-rehabilitation and assistance activities with animals.

Teaching of subjects on livestock breeding and their use. Increased attention is paid to practical teaching, in which the form of independent work of students is chosen, in selected subjects to the processing of projects and education of students to teamwork.

The mission of the department is to provide education and research activities in crop production in the tropics and subtropics aimed at increasing the sustainability, productivity and resilience of mainly smallholder farming systems through wider use of crop diversity.

The department focuses on the use of so-called green biotechnologies in combination with food processing technologies to ensure food security and rural development in countries of the Global South.

Teaching botany and plant physiology.

Teaching general, analytical, inorganic and organic chemistry, biochemistry and wood chemistry.