AGRIBUS 7053 - Globalisation & Agriculture in Emerging Economies

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2014

This course examines the causes and consequences of the rapidly transforming food and agriculture markets in the emerging economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Students examine these market transformations from traditional, unorganized markets consisting of small-scale traders with only modest vertical coordination and little transmission of information about quality, health and safety attributes to more organized market channels in which larger-scale buyers coordinate supplies and impose greater quality and food safety standards. Supermarkets are one aspect of this transformation. So too are food processors and exporters, as well as private and public institutions designed to transmit quality and safety preferences of consumers back to the farm level.

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