
Programme Description
This course offers the opportunity to explore the importance of social change and cultural factors in international development, develop understanding of theoretical frameworks for analysing change and strengthen competence in planning, managing and assessing activities that have implications for household and community livelihoods.

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This course combines the analytical rigour of modern economic analysis with practical, field-based perspectives on agricultural development.

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With an ever-increasing world population and growing pressure on the world's finite resources, the analytical skills of agricultural economists covered in this course are as relevant as ever.

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This course critically examines the role of agriculture (including horticulture) and agricultural research in addressing the major challenges and opportunities related to agricultural intensification and environmental sustainability in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the developing world.

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This course surveys the main issues of development, and critically explores the concepts and strategies applied by agencies of change to meet these challenges.

Programme Description
This course offers the opportunity to explore the importance of social change and cultural factors in international development, develop understanding of theoretical frameworks for analysing change and strengthen competence in planning, managing and assessing activities that have implications for household and community livelihoods.

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Rapid changes in the communication landscape – technologies, communication processes, and communication opportunities – offer new ways to understand and improve livelihoods, poverty reduction, and governance. Understanding how communication can support individual and social change can lead to more effective and dynamic development practice. Practical applications of communication and development are diverse: they include extension and advisory services, communication and climate change risk reduction, communicating about health challenges, and communication to reduce food insecurity. As issues such as food security, challenging inequalities, supporting the role of agriculture, and addressing climate change challenges are of increasing important on the global development agenda, so too is the role of communication in facilitating, driving, and enabling change. This master's programme: builds a critical understanding of innovation and communication theory in the diverse contexts of international and local development. strengthens professional competence in the design, planning and management of information and knowledge interventions. provides a focus on practical application of new knowledge and skills to support innovation and change.

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This course includes an analysis of both the formal and informal financial sectors, policies to promote financial inclusion, clients' financial service needs, institutional design and financial reform.

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This course aims to provide both a rigorous global overview and nuanced, in-depth analyses of the complex inter-relationships between the environment and development at the global, regional, national and local levels, within the converging global development context.

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This course provides training in applied economics, marketing and quantitative and qualitative research techniques and covers economic and marketing aspects of food including: consumers' food choice decisions; globalisation in food retailing and manufacturing and its impacts; and policy issues as they relate to international trade, competition, food safety and diets and health.