ECON 521 Global Agriculture and Food Security
The course will give students a solid understanding of the relationships between agriculture, food security, nutrition, and climate change, and discuss how to evaluate programming and measure success. It will cover conceptual/theoretical materials, as well as case studies from the practitioner world. By the end of the course, students should be able to design an integrated project that addresses agricultural development and food security and develop a learning agenda for operational research with hypotheses to test in the field through project implementation.
Prerequisite
Open to students in the M.A. in Applied Economics program. Other students must request permission to enroll through the Department of Economics.