Nome da disciplina: Agricultural and Food Economics
Coordenador(es): Madalena Barreira
Outros docentes: Manuel Belo Moreira, Inês Mansinho, Raul Jorge, Fernando Oliveira Baptista
e João Castro Caldas
Precedências requeridas: Introdução à Eng.ª Zootécnica ou Organização da Produção Agrícola
e Pecuária (consoante a licenciatura)
Semestre pretendido (no caso da disciplina não ter semestre atribuído):
Número e tipo de horas lectivas semanais: Teórico-prática 3+2
Programa
Duração
I- Introduction
2 semanas
Resource scarcity, alternative uses, opportunity costs and
choice. Answering economic questions; methodology of
economics, market failures and public intervention; public
goods and externalities – the case of environmental
externalities.
Docentes
Madalena Barreira
e
Manuel Belo
Moreira
The farm and Agrifood sector: importance to the
Portuguese economy; farm and agrifood structures; inputs
and economic results of the farm and agrifood sectors.
II- Agricultural and food economics
6 semanas Madalena Barreira,
Production and supply of agricultural and food products:
+
Inês Mansinho
production function, productivity and rate of technical
substitution; costs, returns and profit maximisation; short and 1 avaliação
e
long run supply; specificity of agricultural and food supply.
Raul Jorge
Demand of agricultural and food products: utility,
consumers’ choice and demand; determinants and specificity
of agricultural and food demand; main trends of food
consumption in Portugal.
Markets and prices of agricultural and food products:
demand, supply and market equilibrium; market instability,
price determination in an open economy; market structures
and agro-food supply chains.
III- Rural Economy
4 semanas Fernando O. Baptista
From agriculture to agricultural sector and to social
+
e
system integration: farm and agricultural enterprise; part
time farming; agricultural family unities based on revenue
1 avaliação
João C. Caldas
transfers.
From agriculture to territory. The new rural paradigm;
the competitiveness of rural areas; multifuntionality; local
assets valorisation; non used resources exploitation; rural
economies diversification; from subsidies to investment.
Rural economy agents: Administration at different levels;
regional and local agents; local governance.