Agri-food System Management1B
| Numbering Code | G-AGR06 6FA42 LJ82 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture |
| Target Year | Target Student | ||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Tue.4 |
| Instructor name | TSUJIMURA HIDEYUKI (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor) | ||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | lectures and seminars on comprehensive agri-food system management, the type of enterprise, decision-making and ethics of farm and food business, consumer/public behavior and coordination of quality, price and safety in regional and global agri-food system | ||
| Course Goals | The objective of this course is to provide students with the theoretical framework and techniques for analyzing the business operation, consumer behavior, and coordination in agri-food systems while taking into account management structures, daily life patterns, cognitive information processing, values and philosophy, ethics, and social institutions including conventions and rules. This experience will help students further develop their research and analytical skills needed to identify and solve issues to achieve sustainability in agri-food systems. | ||
| Schedule and Contents |
This course will survey recently published research outcomes on agri-food systems as well as the structures and behavior of the entities constituting the agri-food systems and the environment in which agri-food systems are found. Additionally, in order to help students develop an awareness of the behavior of entities constituting the food systems and the underpinning institutional framework, the course will cover the theories of behavioral economics and the economics of conventions, which incorporate findings from cognitive science. We plan to focus our discussions on the following topics in the second semester of this year: Recent studies ?Articles published in journals such as: Agricultural Economics, Food Systems Research, Issues in Agriculture and Forestry, and Agricultural Market Research. ?Framework that institutionalizes enterprises (Economics of Conventions) ?Eymard-Duvernay, F. (2006). Economie Politique de l’entreprise (Japanese translation). Nakanishiya Shuppan. ?Other related publications The course will consist of 15 lectures and discussions. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Evaluation will be based on criteria such as class presentations and reports. | ||
| Course Requirements | None. | ||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Students are expected to prepare for the next class by going through relevant literature thoroughly and be able to answer questions from other students. | ||
