Undergraduate Course: Applications in Agricultural and Food Economics (VETS08011)
Course Outline
| School | Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will develop knowledge of economic theory using applied examples from agriculture and food. It will build on the basic principles developed in year 1 and will present topic and research based material, including data sets, for analysis and discussion to promote knowledge of frameworks used within economic analysis. |
| Course description |
The aim of the course is to develop intermediate knowledge of agricultural economic methods applied to topical problems. It will extend student understanding of quantitative frameworks and approaches used within economics to understand how resources are allocated within agri-food supply chains.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discriminate between types of market failure in imperfect competition.
- Illustrate, in economic terms, the problems of supply and demand.
- Apply numerical approaches to illustrate agri-food systems.
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Reading List
Essential Texts:
Barkley, A. (2016) The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets. Manhatten, Kas., Prarie Press
Krugman, P et al (2012) International Economics: Theory & Policy. London, Pearson.
Kolstad, C (2011) Environmental Economics. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Mazzocchi, M (2009) Fat Economics: Nutrition, Health and Economic Policy. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
For a complete reading list, please see the Resourse List on the Learn page for this course. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Outlook and engagement, through the discussion and raised awareness of globally relevant challenges and feasibility of solutions applied to a range of regionally defined systems.
Personal effectiveness, through the development of computer skills and efficient searching for the appropriate data needed to tackle a problem related to agri-food supply chains.
Communication, through summarising policy interventions for a non-technical audience to enable understanding of economic problems. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Luiza Toma
Tel:
Email: Luiza.Toma@sruc.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Gordon Littlejohn
Tel:
Email: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk |
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