Agricultural Economics and Management

Code: ECN00499L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Management

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This curricular unit provides students with knowledge about the basic concepts and methods of economics and management of an agricultural company or an agribusiness.

Sustainable Development Goals

Erradicação da pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

Fome zero e agricultura sustentável - Acabar com a fome, alcançar a segurança alimentar e melhoria da nutrição e promover a agricultura sustentável.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Consumo e produção responsáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

Provide students with the tools of economic analysis at the level of production, consumption, markets and agricultural policies.
Provide students with a set of methods and techniques for planning, management and marketing and make them aware of their importance in decision-making and business development.
Build the capacity of: written and oral communication; management of economic and social information; analysis and synthesis of economic matters.
Develop the capacity for identifying and analyzing the main problems of the agro-forestry complex and propose policies to address them; detect the main bottlenecks for rural development; propose improvements in the planning and management of activities and agro-livestock enterprises; encourage the development and use of marketing plans and marketing of agricultural and livestock products.

Agricultural Economics
- Production Theory
- Consumer Theory
- Agricultural Markets
- Agricultural Policies
Agricultural Management
- Agricultural Planning - Planning Methods for Agricultural Business
- Agricultural Management - Object Cycle and Functions of Agricultural Management Company
- Agricultural Marketing - Strategic and Operational Marketing

Teaching Methods

Exhibition of theoretical concepts. Discussion of themes and texts that illustrate and consolidate the theoretical concepts. Troubleshooting application.
The assessment consists of two written tests.