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Agri-food Economics 2024/25

University of Florence - LM: Design of Sustainable Tourism Systems - Code: B019356; CFU: 6  

          Last update: 28th March 2025

Contents in short

 

Ü Basics of agricultural economics. Supply, demand, and markets. The specificities of agriculture

Ü The evolution of agriculture: from productivism to multifunctionality

Ü The agribusiness. Processing, distribution, consumption

Ü The Common Agricultural Policy and its evolution.

Ü Food quality, typical products, short food supply-chain.

Ü Food tourism.

 

 

Attending students

Attending students will prepare the final exam studying on the slides of the lectures and their own notes. The slides are available on Moodle platform.

 

Non attending students

Non Attending students will prepare the final exam studying on the texts available on Moodle platform in the section "Non attending students".

 

IMPORTANT

Students can choose to take the exam on the Attending students program or the Non Attending students program independently from the attendance to the course. For example, students who never attendend a class can choose to take the exam on the attending students program and vice versa.

 

Exams

- 5th June 2025 h.14.00 (room D5/0.03)

- 20th June 2025 h.14.00 (room D5/0.03)

- 8th July 2025 h.14.00 (room D4/0.01)

- 1st September 2025 h.11.00 (room D6/0.04)

 

Ü Registration to the exam

All students must be registered on Moodle platform, course Agrifood Economics 2024/25 (no password required), to take the exam.  

When registering, students must indicate in the notes the program (Attending student - Non attending student) they want to take the exam on.

 

Ü Exam

The exam is only written for both attending and non attending students. The structure of the exam is the same for both attending and non attending students.

The written test will last one hour. The test has 10 true/false questions (1 point for correct answer, -0,5 for wrong answer, zero for not answered questions), and 5 open questions (max 5 points each).

 

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Ü Optional exercises (attending students only)

The marks obtained in the test and the marks obtained from the optional exercises will give the final mark of the exam.

 

Ü Students from previous a.ys.

Attending students from previous academic years will study on both slides and notes taken during the classes of their a.y., and pass the written test.

When registering to the exam, students must write in the notes that they want to pass the exam on previous academic years programs, specifying the a.y. they attended (example: "attending student, a.y.2023/24").

 

 

 

 

 

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Ü Students' evaluation of Agri-food Economics

 

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Ü general information

Ü Study-plan

Ü internship and job placement

 

University of Florence

Ü School of Economics and Management: Academic calendar

Ü MOODLE Platform

 

 

ATTENDING STUDENTS 2023/2024

 

 

Timetable 24/25 (Feb-May 2025)

 

Wednesday h.10-12 room D4/1.13

Thursday h.10-12 room D4/1.13

 

 

Lectures 24/25

 

26/02/2025 Introduction to the course


 MOD.1: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

 

27/02/2025 The specificity of agriculture

05/03/2025 Biological inputs and fixed costs: implications

06/03/2025 No lesson  

12/03/2025 The Johnson's model

13/03/2025 The importance of time

19/03/2025 The cobwed theorem and the seasonal trend of prices

20/03/2025 Specificity of agricultural sector

26/03/2025  Food demand

 

MOD.2: MODERNIZATION AND AGRIBUSINESS

27/03/2025  Productivism and role of agriculture

02/04/2025  Productivism

03/04/2025  The Common Agricultural Policy

09/04/2025  The Common Agricultural Policy

10/04/2025  Agribusiness

16/04/2025  Agribusiness

17/04/2025  Agribusiness

---- Easter holidays

30/04/2025 No lesson  

 

Mod.3: THE NEW DEVELOPMENT MODEL

07/05/2025  Short Food Supply Chains

08/05/2025  Short Food Supply Chains

14/05/2025  The new development model

15/05/2025  Multifunctionality

21/05/2025  The evolution of the CAP

 

22/05/2025  Team work presentations

28/05/2025  Seminar

29/05/2025  Seminar

 

 

 

Seminars Agrifood Economics 24/25

 

 

28th May 2025

 

29th May 2025

  

 

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