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AREC3002: Agricultural Markets
2024 unit information
This unit of study is designed to provide an understanding of the underlying forces driving agricultural markets. It addresses price analysis and efficiency, including aspects of form, time and space in agricultural marketing; information and contracts; changing consumer concerns (food safety, ethical production); futures market and other risk sharing devices. Building on the application of microeconomic theory to both production and consumption in agricultural markets, its content is analytical. The unit also investigates some of the forces which prevent the efficient operation of world agricultural markets, including impediments to trade, imperfect markets for inputs and outputs and market power along the agricultural supply chain.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Economics
| Code | AREC3002 |
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| Academic unit | Economics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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AREC2005 or AREC2001 or AGEC2103 or ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental concepts in the theory of agricultural markets, and their application in the context of domestic and international agribusiness
- LO2. demonstrate analytical abilities in the context of agricultural markets.
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