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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/agriculture-economics-nature
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课程名称：农业、经济学与自然 课程概述：本课程强调经济思维在农业中的重要性，帮助农民依赖良好的经济决策生存，并支持政府进行合理的政策决策。课程旨在提升学员的决策能力，使其更好地理解农民对政策和经济机会的反应。课程内容包括高质量的视频讲座、专家访谈、经济模型构建的演示、练习测验以及推荐和选读材料。评估方式为测验和期末考试。 课程主要内容： 1. **农业生产与价格及其对自然资源的依赖**：历史背景、生产和价格变化原因，以及2007年全球粮食危机的探讨。 2. **农业面临的资源与环境挑战**：水资源、磷峰值、除草剂抗性和气候变化等问题。 3. **农业投入的经济学**：投入与产出的关系、最佳投入水平、污染问题及收益曲线的讨论。 4. **土地保护的经济学**：评估土地保护实践、正确权衡收益与成本、非经济因素等。 5. **农业环境项目的经济学**：讨论超越农场的经济学重要性、农业环保项目的特点及利益成本分析等。 6. **农业中的政府政策**：支持农业的政策、保护农村环境的政策及政策问题的讨论。 最终考试将对学员的学习成果进行评估。此课程为希望进一步骤了解农业经济学的学员提供了良好的基础。
Name:Agricultural production and prices, and agriculture’s reliance on natural resources
Description:Week 1 provides a history of agricultural production and prices, an examination into the reasons behind changes in production and prices, and discussions of the 2007 global food crisis and agriculture’s usage of resources.
Name:Resource and environmental challenges facing agriculture
Description:Week 2 addresses the agricultural issues of water availability, peak phosphorus, herbicide resistance, and climate change.
Name:The economics of agricultural inputs
Description:Week 3 looks at the relationship between inputs and outputs, the optimal level of an input, the question of pollution from inputs, and flat payoff functions.
Name:The economics of land conservation
Description:Week 4 focuses on evaluating land conservation practices, weighing benefits and costs correctly, non-economic factors, and provides an example in conservation agriculture.
Name:The economics of agri-environmental projects
Description:Week 5 discusses the importance of extending economics beyond the farm gate, characteristics of agri-environmental projects, Benefit: Cost Analysis, and provides an example with Gippsland Lakes.
Name:Government policies in agriculture
Description:Week 6 ties up the course through discussion of government policies that support agriculture, policies that protect the rural environment, policies with problems, and justifications for agricultural policy.
Name:Final Exam
Description:
Sound economic thinking is crucial for farmers because they depend on good economic decision making to survive. Governments depend on economic information to make good policy decisions on behalf of the community. This course will help you to contribute to better decision making by farmers, or by agencies servicing agriculture, and it will help you to understand why farmers respond to policies and economic opportunities in the ways they do. You can use this course to improve your skills and knowledge and to assess whether this is a subject that you'd like to study further. The course includes high-quality video lectures, interviews with experts, demonstrations of how to build economic models in spreadsheets, practice quizzes, and a range of recommended readings and optional readings. Assessment is by quizzes and a final exam. The key economic principles that we’ll learn about can help us understand changes that have occurred in agriculture, and support improved decision making about things like agricultural production methods, agricultural input levels, resource conservation, and the balance between agricultural production and its environmental impacts. There are literally thousands of agricultural economists around the world who work on these issues, so there is a wealth of knowledge to draw on for the course. Watch a brief video about our course here: https://youtu.be/Y8OGswUXx48
