Duration
12h Th, 12h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
1. Introduction
2. Concerned products (banana, cacao, coffee, rubber, cotton, palm oil, soya beans cake and oil, essential oils, sugar, thea, cinchona)
3. Production (for each concerned product (geographic areas, volume, value))
4. Consumption (for each concerned product (geographic areas, volume, value))
5. Exchanges (for each concerned product (exports, imports))
6. Price setting (for each concerned product)
6.1. Price mechanism
6.2. Production price
6.3. Consumption price
6.4. Intermediaries and markets
6.5. World prices and internal prices
6.6. Competitiveness
6.7. Evolution and perspectives
7. Futures markets (definition, utility and risk forecast, quantification and relative share, markets instability and volatility, regulation and public intervention)
8. International agreements (coffee, cacao, banana - euro - us, sugar, the WTO and international agreements, Stabex specificities)
9. Fair trade (definition, scale, perspectives)
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Understanding and arguing physical and futures markets functioning of main agricultural productions coming from tropical and intertropical areas.
After completing the course the student is expected to
- will understand the principal mechanisms governing the tropical markets of which the mechanisms fixing of price
- will be able to carry out a relevant research on agricultural tropical markets and to define the principal constraints and prospects for them
-will be likely to integrate the elements of determination of supply and demand in the ex-ante or ex-post analyses of of private and public investments projects
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Lectures : 12h
Seminars : 12h
Recommended or required readings
Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens (2000 - 2005).
Cyclope : Les Marchés Tropicaux - Economica.
Assessment methods and criteria
Group report (30%)
Oral examination (70%)