Sustainable Agribusiness Comprehensive Exam

This capstone exam is an assessment of the knowledge and various skills you’ve attained throughout the MicroMasters program. They include how to:

• Discern how variables impact outcomes within specific contexts
• Articulate how models can be used to maximize sustainability
• Utilize sustainable agricultural models to achieve economic and sustainability outcomes
• Assess effects of human non-judicious use of natural resources resulting in agricultural problems and environmental degradation
• Apply environmental economic theory to the allocation and utilization of natural resources
• Analyze the effects of economic growth on the environment and agricultural practices
• Through evaluation of current environmental policy, the learner will be able to propose policy modifications to inform new policy that realizes better ecosystems services.
• Explain the need for a country-level collaboration among various agencies in finance, commerce, agriculture, health, and environmental protection.
• Discuss the complexity and impact of changes in policies, business practices, and technologies have on global food systems and food supply chains.
• Evaluate how global food system and supply chains are affected by diverse participants with conflicting interests.
• Analyze how individual’s lifestyles, international business operations, policies of health care, energy, and food, environmental changes, and so on impact global food systems’ biodiversity and ecosystem.
• Explore not only economic but also social and environmental impacts from global business practices on individuals, communities, and society.
• Assess how the sustainability of agriculture and food systems are evaluated and measured, and explore solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems.
• Analyze proposed solutions to global agri-food systems challenges.
• Apply concepts of marketing to sustainable agriculture and food innovation, identify creative market entry strategiesand utilize economic principles to formulate pricing strategies.
• Apply supply chain management principles in a sustainable way that protects the environment, measure environmental sustainability performance of supply chains and analyze the importance of ethics and transparency in supply chain management.