Welcome to the world of statistics and Biometrics
Contact person: Francois Xavier Rucamumihigo
e-mail: rufrax2000@gmail.com
The module is about pest management. The completion of the module will enable a learner to acquire skill for pest control with more focus on tropical crops.
1. To review the basic principles of the analytical procedures commonly used to analyze foods,
2. and to discuss their application to specific food components, e.g. lipids, proteins, water, carbohydrates and ash.
The module of Farm Management and Agriculture Finance deals with the general concepts, principles and methods of farm management as well as the aspects and challenges of financing agriculture. Without being exhaustive, the course will address the economic principles of agricultural production, the different approaches and tools for farm management: economic, analytical, systemic and strategic as well as the risk in agriculture and the role of the different actors. The course will also provide students with skills for developing a strategic plan for the development of farms using economic optimization tools (General Algebraic Modeling Systems, GAMS) and development of a technical management advice report and decision making tools for technical and economic direction of the farm.
Welcome to the module “International Food and Agricultural Products Trade”.
Brief description of aims
Aim: The objective of this course is to provide a foundation in international trade theory and enable the student to apply this theory to the study of issues in globalization, economic integration and trade policy. Broadly, the goals are to
i) understand existing patterns of international trade
ii) ask if trade is beneficial for individual economies and the wider
international community and if there are winners and losers from trade
iii) study the conduct of trade policy, its objectives and impacts
iv) gain familiarity with the world trading system.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of this course, students should ideally be able to:
1) understand the major models of international trade and compare and contrast them.
2) understand the principle of comparative advantage, including its formal expression.
3) analyze the linkages between trade, labor and capital movements, international
fragmentation of production, economic well-being and the income distribution and to
identify and critically examine policy implications of these linkages.
4) apply equilibrium models to analyze the economic effects of policy interventions including tariffs, quotas, export subsidies, anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties and the creation of preferential trading agreements.
5) critically analyze these policy interventions in terms of their costs and benefits, including their implications for economic well-being, performance and competitiveness.
6) Understand major recent developments in the world trading system and comment critically on their effects on individual economies and on the wider international community.
Cognitive/Intellectual skills/Application of Knowledge
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
1. Explain patterns of world production and trade and ask if international trade is beneficial. This will be done with the help of models from international trade theory that are important components of the toolkit of contemporary trade economists.
2.Explore the phenomena of outsourcing and international mobility of labor (immigration) and capital (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)).
3.Analyze and compare instruments of trade policy and evaluate their impact on domestic and international welfare.
4. Compare the world trading system, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) and international trade agreements.
Communication/ICT/Numeracy/Analytic Techniques/Practical Skills
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
Write a report
Present the results
Have practice in discussion and reasoning
Compile a literature review and make an appropriate use of references
General transferable skills
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
Independently carry out a field survey
Apply basic tools of ascertaining the real advantages we get from international trade, trade restrictions and protectionism
The module is composed of 3 learning units:
1.International Food and Agricultural Products Trade
2. International Trade Policy
3. Seminar in Agribusiness
Indicative Resources:
The following textbooks are recommended for reading:
1.Feenstra, Robert C. and Alan M. Taylor, 2014, International Economics, 3rd edition, Worth
Publishers (ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-7844-7; ISBN-10: 1-4292- 7844-
Background Texts
Some useful links:
WTO, http://www.wto.org
UNCTAD, http://www.unctad.org
OECD, http://www.oecd.org
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, NZ, http://www.mfat.govt.nz
Economists:
Paul Krugman (Princeton University website): https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/
Journals
Useful journals can be found on Agora database accessible through www.ur.ac.rw. Agora database is a free database providing full text downloadable papers. Recommended journals are the following:
Journal of economics
Agricultural Economics
International trade
For a glossary of terms used in international economics, see Alan Deardorff’s (University
of Michigan) website at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environments
this module will deal with:
Notions of economic analysis, of consumer behavior, of demand, of supply, of producer behavior and of market equilibrium, agricultural activity, agricultural enterprise, factors of agricultural production, models of agricultural production, agro industry, simple relationship between factors and products, substitution between factors of production and products, agricultural demand and supply, formation of agricultural prices, intervention of Government on agricultural prices, farm return, natural resource revenues, agricultural mechanization, notion of development and economic growth, agricultural sector and organization of economic activity, agricultural sector and industrial development, agricultural sector and employment equilibrium, agricultural policy and development, agricultural sector and trade balance, agricultural sector and macroeconomic aggregates.
General farm management including record keeping, income tax management, farm finance, and operational management of agricultural resources. Analysis of strategic management issues for agribusiness. Formulation of business strategy and solutions to strategic problems. Integration of operations, marketing, finance, and human resource management.
Module Description:
This module is aiming at providing the students with an understanding of problems of rural people accessing the financial services and special challenges of rural areas that are traditionally associated with rural and agricultural credit directed to the poor.
Rural finance provide an awareness of the importance of rural finance in development and the difficult history and learning that has taken place. To understand thoroughly the challenges and issues in rural finance. Understand level of comprehension and participant suggestions from feedback discussion.
Learning outcomes:
Having successfully completed the module, you should be able to:
(1)Demonstrate knowledge on the forces that affect rural finance and marketing
(2) Analyse historical rural finance aspects
(3) Specify non-linear models
(4) Analyse the model and interpret the results through hypothesis testing
(5) Be able to handle some of the practical consequences in the regression analysis
(6) Be familiar with the use of SPSS in the analysis of econometric models
(7) Apply econometrics and modelling in agricultural problem solving
(8) Collect and analysis data for empirical analysis
(9) Analyse problems with help of appropriate tools and define and evaluate relationships between agricultural phenomena
(10) Write a report especially during their assignments
(11) Present the results from analysis by linking the economic theory and economic principles.
(12) Independently carry out a field survey
(13) Conduct data analysis and report writing
Research Methods and Data Management Module is taught to Year III Agribusiness students. It is composed of three learning units:
2. Data Management
3. Data Analysis & Software Application
- Aim:
(i) The main objective of this course is to make the student able to design, to implement & organize, to carry out and to write various research tasks.
(ii) To make student familiar with basic knowledge of Data Management; Data collection and Analysis and application of software in problems solving.
Welcome to Scientific Research Methods module. The module is designed for Year III Rural Development Student. The module is made up of two components:
2. Biometrics
Aim:
(i) The main objective of this course is to make the student able to design, to implement & organize, to carry out and to write various research tasks.
(ii) To make student familiar with basic knowledge of Data Management; Data collection and Analysis and application of software in problems solving
(iii) To make the student familiar with basic concepts in planning and analysis of Agricultural experiment.