Agricultural economics
From Freepedia
Agricultural economics applies the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock. Specific areas of study in agricultural economics include:
- Community and rural development
- Food safety and nutrition
- International trade
- Natural resource and environmental economics
- Production economics
- Risk and uncertainty
- Consumer behavior and household economics
- Analysis of markets and competition
- Agribusiness economics and management
Agricultural economics tends to be more micro-oriented than economics in general. Many undergraduate Agricultural Economics degrees given by US land-grant universities tend to be more like a traditional business degree rather than a traditional economics degree. At the graduate level, many agricultural economics programs focus on a wide variety of applied microeconomic topics.
