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Aktuella teman inom tillämpad agrar ekonomi I

Kursen genomförs med hjälp av en obligatorisk seminariedel där den aktuella forskningen inom ämnet agrar ekonomi behandlas genom ett fokus på inom ämnet nypublicerad litteratur. Vidare genomförs kursen med hjälp av en metoddel där studenterna genom ett obligatoriskt projektarbete lär sig tillämpa en aktuell forskningsmetod inom ämnet agrar ekonomi.


Kursen innehåller en genomgång av aktuella forskningsteman och metoder inom ämnet agrar ekonomi. Studenterna får även träning i praktiskt tillämpning av en aktuell metod inom ämnet agrar ekonomi.


Information från kursledaren

2020-07-09
Welcome to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Kursplan och övrig information

Litteraturlista

  1. Selected scientific articles Kommentar: Topics in contemporary agricultural economics I NA0180, 2020 Reading list Future scenarios FAO (2018). The future of food and agriculture – alternative pathways to 2050. Rome. http://www.fao.org/publications/fofa/en/ Modelling in Agricultural Economics Two general papers providing background and food-for-thought

  2. Overview paper on problems and solutions for EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Citation: Brady, M., S. Höjgård, E. Kasperson and E. Rabinowicz (2009). "The CAP and Future Challenges." Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS).

  3. General paper reflecting on people’s “fear” of structural change and the implications of agricultural policy for structural change, competitiveness and the environment. Citation: Balmann, A., F. Appel, F. Heinrich and C. Pitson (2019). "Agricultural policy for the environment or environmental policy for agriculture?". Note: the paper is a conference paper, hence not polished, but written by leading expert and providing many valuable insights based on a career of studying structural change. Four papers on how we can model structural change and the AgriPolis model, and combined with policy analysis

  4. Theoretical basis for modelling an agricultural region as an agent-based system (ABS) and the roots of the AgriPoliS model Citation: Balmann, A. 1997. "Farm-based modelling of regional structural change: a cellular automata approach." European Review of Agricultural Economics 24:85-108.

  5. The Agricultural Policy Simulator (AgriPoliS) for evaluating the impacts of agricultural policy (CAP) on farm structure Citation: Happe, K., K. Kellermann and A. Balmann (2006). "Agent-based Analysis of Agricultural Policies: an Illustration of the Agricultural Policy Simulator AgriPoliS, its Adaptation and Behavior." Ecology and Society, 11(1): 49 [http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss41/art49/].

  6. Evaluation of decoupled direct agricultural payments and extension of AgriPoliS for modelling environmental impacts of CAP Citation: Brady, M., K. Kellermann, C. Sahrbacher, L. Jelinek, and A. Lobianco. 2009. "Impacts of Decoupled Agricultural Support on Farm Structure, Biodiversity and Landscape Mosaic: Some EU Results." Journal of Agricultural Economics 60(3):563-585.

  7. Application of AgriPoliS in multidisciplinary research through combining economic and ecological modelling Citation: Hristov, J., Y. Clough, U. Sahlin, H. G. Smith, M. Stjernman, O. Olsson, A. Sahrbacher and M. V. Brady (2020). "Impacts of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy “Greening” Reform on Agricultural Development, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, (Early View). Doi: 10.1002/aepp.13037 Animal Health and Welfare Papers

  1. Green, LE, J Kaler, GJ Wassink, EM King and R Grogono Thomas (2012). Impact of rapid treatment of sheep lame with footrot on welfare and economics and farmer attitudes to lameness in sheep. Animal Welfare 2012, 21(S1): 65-71. Doi: 10.7120/096272812X13345905673728

  2. Vosough Ahmadi B, Stott AW, Baxter EM, Lawrence AB and Edwards SA (2011). Animal welfare and economic optimization of farrowing systems. Animal Welfare 20: 57-67

  3. A. P. Barnes, K. M. D. Rutherford, F. M. Langford, and M. J. Haskell (2011). The effect of lameness prevalence on technical efficiency at the dairy farm level: An adjusted data envelopment analysis approach. J. Dairy Sci. 94:5449–5457. doi: 10.3168/jds.2011-4262

  4. Tina Birk Jensen, Niels Peter Baadsgaard, Hans Houe, Nils Toft, and Søren Østergaard (2008). The association between disease and profitability in individual finishing boars at a test station. Livestock Science 117 (2008) 101–108

  5. Lartey G. Lawsona, Jens F. Aggerb, Mogens Lunda, Tim Coelli (2004). Lameness, metabolic and digestive disorders, and technical efficiency in Danish dairy herds: a stochastic frontier production function approach. Livestock Production Science 91 (2004) 157–172

  6. Stott, A. W., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Dwyer, C. M., Kupiec, B., Morgan-Davies, C., Milne, C. E., Ringrose, S., Goddard, P., Phillips, K. and Waterhouse, A. ‘Interactions between profit and welfare on extensive sheep farms’, Animal Welfare, Vol. 21, (2012) pp. 57–64.

  7. Bornett, H. L. I., Guy, J. H. and Cain, P. J. ‘Impact of animal welfare on costs and viability of pig production in the UK’, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 16, (2003) pp. 163–186. Land Use Economics

  8. Hüttel, S., Wildermann, L., & Croonenbroeck, C. (2016). How do institutional market players matter in farmland pricing? Land Use Policy, 59, 154-167. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.08.021

  9. Latruffe, L., & Le Mouël, C. (2009). Capitalization of Government Support in Agricultural Land Prices: What do we know? Journal of Economic Surveys, 23(4), 659-691. doi:doi:10.1111/j.1467-6419.2009.00575.x

  10. Lehn, F., & Bahrs, E. (2018). Analysis of factors influencing standard farmland values with regard to stronger interventions in the German farmland market. Land Use Policy, 73, 138-146. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.01.020

  11. Livanis, G., Moss, C. B., Breneman, V. E., & Nehring, R. F. (2006). Urban Sprawl and Farmland Prices. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, 88(4), 915-929. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00906.x

  12. Swinnen, J. F. M. (2002). Political reforms, rural crises, and land tenure in western Europe. Food Policy, 27(4), 371-394. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-9192(02)00045-3

  13. Wasson, J. R., McLeod, D. M., Bastian, C. T., Rashford, R. S., & (2013). The Effects of Environmental Amenities on Agricultural Land Values. LAND ECONOMICS, 89(3), 466-478

Risk and Uncertainty Allen, D. W., & Lueck, D. (1999). The role of risk in contract choice. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 15(3), 704-736. Bocquého, G., Jacquet, F., & Reynaud, A. (2014). Expected utility or prospect theory maximisers? Assessing farmers' risk behaviour from field-experiment data. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 41(1), 135-172. Dalhaus, T., Musshoff, O., & Finger, R. (2018). Phenology information contributes to reduce temporal basis risk in agricultural weather index insurance. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1-10. Hansson, H., & Lagerkvist, C. J. (2012). Measuring farmers’ preferences for risk: a domain-specific risk preference scale. Journal of Risk Research, 15(7), 737-753. Menapace, L., Colson, G., & Raffaelli, R. (2016). A comparison of hypothetical risk attitude elicitation instruments for explaining farmer crop insurance purchases. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 43(1), 113-135. Sarwosri, A. W., & Mußhoff, O. (2020). Are Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences Crucial Factors for Crop Diversification by Smallholder Farmers? Journal of International Development.


Kursfakta

Kursen ges som en fristående kurs: Ja Kursavgift: Studieavgift, endast för medborgare utanför EU, EES, och Schweiz: 13082 SEK Nivå: Avancerad nivå (A1N)
Ämne: Nationalekonomi Nationalekonomi
Kurskod: NA0180 Anmälningskod: SLU-10214 Plats: Uppsala Distanskurs: Nej Undervisningsspråk: Engelska Ansvarig institution: Institutionen för ekonomi Studietakt: 50%