Unit ECONOMICS AND POLICY
- Course
- Agricultural and environmental sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 80988606
- Curriculum
- Biotecnologie
- Teacher
- Lucia Rocchi
- Teachers
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- Lucia Rocchi
- Hours
- 54 ore - Lucia Rocchi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline economiche estimative e giuridiche.
- Academic discipline
- AGR/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course can be divided into three parts. The first introduces some basic concepts of general economics, microeconomics and macroeconomics regarding production costs and markets applied to the agri-food system. The second part analyzes some peculiarities of the agricultural farms, with reference to the Italian context; in particular, the student will analyze the figure of the agricultural entrepreneur, the factors of production in agriculture, the balance and efficiency ratios. The third part is a quick discussion of agricultural policies, with a focus on the community policy and the first pillar.
- Reference texts
- There is no reference text: the teacher will provide material to take the exam in the form of lecture notes and lecture notes. However, for those who wish, the following texts are recommended:Dominik Salvatore, (2010): "Microeconomia" Teoria e applicazioni. V edizione, Franco Angeli (MI):
Messori F. (2007): “L’azienda agraria” – Introduzione all’economia dell’unità di produzione agricola. CLUEB (BO)
Iacoponi L., Romiti R., (2004): “Economia e Politica Agraria”, Ed agricole Bologna. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with the basic skills to analyze production and entrepreneurial choices, to understand the economic analysis of farm management, as well as the problems and methods of planning and choosing corporate investments. Through this the student will acquire the knowledge, analysis tools and management techniques necessary to understand the phenomena related to the agricultural enterprise.
- Prerequisites
- The course aims to provide students with the basic skills to analyze production and entrepreneurial choices, to understand the economic analysis of farm management, as well as the problems and methods of planning and choosing corporate investments. Through this the student will acquire the knowledge, analysis tools and management techniques necessary to understand the phenomena related to the agricultural enterprise.
- Teaching methods
- frontal lessons on all the course topics, in-depth seminars on specific topics, such as; practical exercises (exercises, data processing, etc.)
- Learning verification modality
- The student's assessment takes place through a written test which is accompanied by an oral interview in which the topics of the written test are deepened. The writing consists of 8 open questions and 2 exercises lasting one hour.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- Notions of general economics; Study of economic goods and consumer choices; Analysis of the economic theory of supply and demand; Business theory; Market and its functioning; The production and choices of the entrepreneur; Structure and management of production units in agriculture; Business planning problems and methods; Business economic analysis models; The choice of corporate investments. Interrelationships between the agricultural sector and socio-economic development; Agricultural policy and labor, land, business; Evolution of agricultural policy objectives and instruments; Agricultural policy and the European Union, with reference to the 1st Pillar