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About the Course

Sound economic thinking is crucial for farmers because they depend on good economic decision making to survive. Governments depend on economic information to make good policy decisions on behalf of the community. This course will help you to contribute to better decision making by farmers, or by agencies servicing agriculture, and it will help you to understand why farmers respond to policies and economic opportunities in the ways they do. You can use this course to improve your skills and knowledge and to assess whether this is a subject that you'd like to study further. The course includes high-quality video lectures, interviews with experts, demonstrations of how to build economic models in spreadsheets, practice quizzes, and a range of recommended readings and optional readings. Assessment is by quizzes and a final exam. The key economic principles that we’ll learn about can help us understand changes that have occurred in agriculture, and support improved decision making about things like agricultural production methods, agricultural input levels, resource conservation, and the balance between agricultural production and its environmental impacts. There are literally thousands of agricultural economists around the world who work on these issues, so there is a wealth of knowledge to draw on for the course. Watch a brief video about our course here: https://youtu.be/Y8OGswUXx48...

Top reviews

ST

Jun 25, 2020

This was a fantastic learning experience. Professor Pannell is a brilliant teacher, researcher, reasoner, economist! This course was interesting, relevant and useful - I highly recommend it.

AS

Feb 4, 2018

I learnt a lot that I think it will help me in my field. Thou they are all like revision but the approach to the teaching were interesting to me.

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By Sawmitra S

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Sep 26, 2025

Thanx Dr David for sharing such insightful information

By Jeremy S

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Dec 10, 2020

Good introductory course to agriculture and economics!

By Khushi K

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Aug 10, 2019

Its so much of learning , though its distance learning

By Pradeep

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Jan 7, 2020

Good for beginners who want to start off agriculture.

By Reuben M

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Dec 14, 2025

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By Queenie W

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Jan 19, 2018

Great course if you are interested in agribusiness!

By serkan a

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May 5, 2020

Magnificent course, magnificent scholar!. Thanks

By Patrick M

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Feb 19, 2017

The course is well detailed and well lectured.

By Etienne H

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Nov 22, 2016

Very rewarding and insightfull learned a ton !

By José A M M

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Sep 2, 2019

It is a very good course, I learned too much!

By EUGENE K O

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Aug 19, 2018

very educative and lots of academic knowledge

By Nelson R L V

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Apr 6, 2021

Great content, videos, cases and methodology

By Aadam A D

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Oct 24, 2020

Very important course

Thank you coursera

By Akiyode O

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Apr 13, 2017

IT'S AN EDUCATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE COURSE.

By Zohaib u R B

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Aug 24, 2018

Great learning and interesting course

By Tran T M D

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Aug 8, 2023

Easy to understand; useful readings.

By Arif A

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Jun 17, 2017

I am very grateful for this course.

By Zoro Z

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Feb 12, 2025

Very informative and interesting

By Nnamdi C

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Oct 1, 2022

I learnt quite a lot, thank you

By Gareth J

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Dec 28, 2022

Very enjoyable and interesting.

By David B

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Sep 22, 2024

it was very helpful, thank you

By Raísa A M

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Mar 17, 2024

Great content for a begginer!!

By Abhijeet B

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Sep 1, 2016

Enriching content coupled with

By Vvv P

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Dec 13, 2023

informative and useful course