Agriculture, Economics and Nature

Agriculture, Economics and Nature

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Agricultural production and prices, and agriculture’s reliance on natural resources
    Week 1 provides a history of agricultural production and prices, an examination into the reasons behind changes in production and prices, and discussions of the 2007 global food crisis and agriculture’s usage of resources.
  • Week 2 - Resource and environmental challenges facing agriculture
    Week 2 addresses the agricultural issues of water availability, peak phosphorus, herbicide resistance, and climate change.
  • Week 3 - The economics of agricultural inputs
    Week 3 looks at the relationship between inputs and outputs, the optimal level of an input, the question of pollution from inputs, and flat payoff functions.
  • Week 4 - The economics of land conservation
    Week 4 focuses on evaluating land conservation practices, weighing benefits and costs correctly, non-economic factors, and provides an example in conservation agriculture.
  • Week 5 - The economics of agri-environmental projects
    Week 5 discusses the importance of extending economics beyond the farm gate, characteristics of agri-environmental projects, Benefit: Cost Analysis, and provides an example with Gippsland Lakes.
  • Week 6 - Government policies in agriculture
    Week 6 ties up the course through discussion of government policies that support agriculture, policies that protect the rural environment, policies with problems, and justifications for agricultural policy.
  • Week 7 - Final Exam
     

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Professor David Pannell, BSc(Agric), BEc, PhD
UWA School of Agriculture and Environment
University of Western Australia

Jacob Hawkins, BA(Biol), MESM, PhD
School of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Western Australia

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