AGEC 7233 Global Value Chains in Agriculture (3)

Concepts of GVCs in agrarian economics; the structure of GVC datasets and their application; the application of GVC management and marketing concepts to selected agribusiness problems; the relationship between international agricultural trade and GVCs; and the impacts of GVC participation on economic development, employment, structural transformation, and the political economy of trade protection. Focus on both the applied microeconomics and empirical studies of GVCs in agriculture.