This module aims at providing
students principles and analytical methods for agricultural market analysis and
agricultural value chains analysis.
After a successful completion of the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Agricultural markets and information
- Institutions for agricultural commodity prices discovery and market analysis tools
- Agricultural commodity demand and supply analysis and market margins
- Value chain concepts and agricultural value chain analysis
- Agricultural value chain development processes
Course Content:
Unit 1: Agricultural Market Analysis
· Introduction-Markets and information
· Institutions for price discovery
· Overview of market analysis tools
· Demand and supply analysis
· Marketing margins/Competitiveness
Unit 2: Agricultural value chain analysis
- Value Chain Concepts
- Value Chain Analysis (VCA)
- Preliminary domains of value chain analysis
- Technical capacities of the value chain
- Economic performance of the value chain
- value Chain Development
Mode of assessment: A continuous assessment test will be valued at 60% of the total module marks, and one written final exam at 40% of the total module marks.
Participation: The complete participation is awarded 5% of the total marks. Otherwise, the marks to the students are proportionate to their participation considering the minimum required by the INES Academic Regulations
Available points to be earned by students:- Participation : 10 marks
- CATs : 50 marks
- Final examination : 40 marks
Indicative Resources
1. Ferris, John N. Agricultural Prices and Commodity Market Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1998
2. Intriligator, Michael D., Ronald G. Bodkin, and Cheng Hsiao. Econometric Models, Techniques, and Applications, 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1996
3. Deaton, A. and J.Muellbauer. Economics and consumer behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
4. Tomek, William G. and Kenneth L. Robinson. Agricultural Product Prices. Third edition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
5. Lorenzo Giovanni Bellù.Value Chain Analysis for Policy Making: Methodological Guidelines and country cases for a Quantitative Approach. FAO 2013. E-ESBN 978-92-5-107664-4 E-ISSN 2219-9497
6. UNIDO. AGRO-VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT. The UNIDO Approach. A staff working paper. UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION, Vienna, 2009
- Teacher: Sylivestre HABIYAREMYE