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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 Hooman H
•May 6, 2022
wrong questuions
By Priya P
•Sep 25, 2024
Wow
By Maureen J
•Jan 20, 2021
Too much emphasis on Economics, not enough on nature.
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•May 16, 2025
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