Training: Agricultural policy development

Interest and purpose of the training

• Understand the concepts and terminology related to agricultural, food, and trade policies.
• Understand the process of developing and implementing agricultural policy.
• Analyze agricultural, food, and trade policies and their implications for agricultural markets.
• Understand relationship between policies, supply, demand and elasticities and social welfare changes.
• Acquire and hone a set of analytical tools to study the agricultural sector and evaluate agricultural policies

Course outlines

• Introduction and background
• Fundamental concepts in agricultural development
• Farm households, the “industrialization” of agriculture, and technology
• Nutrition and food markets
• Market equilibrium and social welfare
• Policies and their impacts
• Case studies

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