Course Title and Purpose	1. Course Title INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
	2. Aims of the Course: Students who take this course will: :: Be able to understand World and European agricultural and food problems; :: Be aware of the principal trends in world food production and trade, consumption, causes of malnutrition and undernutrition, WTO negotiations, and prospectus about basic trends; :: Understand how functioning the world and European food system; :: To develop knowledge about the policy most important players in world agricultural and food markets.
Course Delivery	3. Contents: Food and Population; Facts and causes of malnutrition; World food security; World food supply and demand; Agricultural production in development and developing countries; International trade issues and policies; Rural poverty; Environment and Agriculture;
	4. Indicative Reading: P. Foster, H. Leathers, The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder and London, 2004 or 1999) N. Alexandratos, World Agriculture: Towards 2010, An FAO Study (FAO and John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1995) FAO, Agriculture: Towards 2015/30 Technical Interim Report (FAO, Rome, 2001) T. Dyson, Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects (Routledge, London and New York, 1996) M. D. Ingco, Agriculture, Trade and the WTO: Creating a Trading Environment for Development (The World Bank, Washington, D. C., 2003)
	5. Learning and Teaching Methods: Total Contact Hours:  28 Range of Modes of Contact: Lectures (two hours per week – one semester), weekly seminars based on small group presentations based on independent learning and directed reading. Range of other Learning Methods: Independent learning and directed reading Total Study Hours:   150
Course Assessment	6. Course Learning Outcomes: After taking this course,students will be able to: :: Describe and explain the basic development trends in world food production, consumption and trade, globalisation world food system, and agricultural and food policy most important players in WTO negotiations. :: Relate highly distorted world trade and production in agriculture by a variety of policy interventions applied in industrial and developing countries. :: Be aware of the linkages between agricultural and overall development, world’s integration theory and the concerns of outcomes on world food security.
	7. Assessment Methods: Assessment is by oral course work (short individual contributions based on recommended reading), written seminar paper and oral exam at the end of the course. Number, Type and Weighting of Elements: 1. Coursework 25% 2. Seminar paper 25% 3. Exam 50%
Course Management	8. Credit Points and Duration: 8 credit points; duration of the course is one semester
	9.  Contact Person: Dr Koviljko Lovre E-mails: klovre@inpoint.net; klovre@eecf.su.ac.yu