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Course Details: Course Details:: AEM 509 Agricultural Development and Policy 3 Units Three Hours Per Week

This document outlines a course on Agricultural Development and Policy. The 3 unit course will be taught over 3 hours per week. It will be taught by Dr. M.U. Agbonlahor and covers a range of topics including theories of economic growth, the role of agriculture in Nigeria's economic development, government agricultural policies and their history in Nigeria, food security, poverty, and challenges to agricultural development planning. Students must attend a minimum of 75% of classes and complete all assignments to qualify for the final exam. Reading materials include two relevant textbooks. Lecture topics are provided and cover issues like agricultural strategies and policies, policy instruments, gender and development, incentives, land tenure policies, and policies for agricultural and rural

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Course Details: Course Details:: AEM 509 Agricultural Development and Policy 3 Units Three Hours Per Week

This document outlines a course on Agricultural Development and Policy. The 3 unit course will be taught over 3 hours per week. It will be taught by Dr. M.U. Agbonlahor and covers a range of topics including theories of economic growth, the role of agriculture in Nigeria's economic development, government agricultural policies and their history in Nigeria, food security, poverty, and challenges to agricultural development planning. Students must attend a minimum of 75% of classes and complete all assignments to qualify for the final exam. Reading materials include two relevant textbooks. Lecture topics are provided and cover issues like agricultural strategies and policies, policy instruments, gender and development, incentives, land tenure policies, and policies for agricultural and rural

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COURSE CODE: AEM 509


COURSE TITLE: Agricultural Development and Policy
NUMBER OF UNITS: 3 Units
COURSE DURATION: Three hours per week

COURSE DETAILS:
COURSE DETAILS:

Course Coordinator: Dr. M.U. Agbonlahor, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD


Email: [email protected]
Office Location: Agric. Econs & Farm Mgt, COLAMRUD

COURSE CONTENT:
Theories of economic growth and development, relationship between economic
growth and economic development, indicators of economic development, History of
economic growth in Nigeria, The role of Agriculture in the Nigeria economic
development, Historical and Analytical Treatment of Government Agricultural policies
in Nigeria; food security issues, poverty measurement and analysis, problems of
agricultural development and planning in Nigeria, integrated rural development
planning.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
This is a compulsory course for 500 level students in the university. In view of this,
students are expected to participate in all the course activities and have minimum of
75% attendance to be able to write the final examination.

READING LIST:
1. Idachaba, F.S. (2006). Good Intentions are not Enough Collected Essays on
Government and Nigerian Agriculture, University Press, University of Ibadan.
2. Norton, R.D. (2004). Agricultural Development Policy Concept and
Experience. John willey press.

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LECTURE NOTES

Week 1 and 2 Agricultural and Economic Development


1. Strategies and Policies
2. The nature of agricultural policy instruments
3. Objectives of agric policy
4. Implementing strategies and policies
5. Agricultural growth and poverty reduction

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Week 3 to 5 Issues of Agricultural policy


• Policy and macro-economic framework
• Fiscal expenditures and subsidies
• Gender and agric Development
• Producers’ incentives
• Consumers’ incentives
• Food security, agricultural prices and the rural poor
• Price stabilization and agricultural production

Week 6 and 7 Land Tenure policies


• Importance of land tenure
• Objectives of land tenure
• The nature of land rights
• Communal, collective and individual rights to land
• Land reforms, Policies and land markets
• Improving access to land

Weeks 8, 9 and 10 Policies for agricultural and rural Finance


• The role of finance in agric development
• Policy objectives of rural finance
• Sustainability and efficiency of financial intermediation
• Structural consideration
• Managing rural financial institutions

Weeks 11, 12, 13 Development Policies


• The MDGs
• Achieving the MDGs
• Constraints Associated
• NEPADS, NEEDS, AGOA and development
• Planning Models
• Development models

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