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AAEC-3204: International Agricultural Development and Trade

Description: Examination of the role of agriculture in less developed countries and how that role is affected by public policies. Dimensions of world food, population, and income problems; theories of economic development and the role of agriculture; traditional agricultural systems and their evolution; agricultural modernization strategies; interactions among natural resources, biofuels, food prices, and sustainable agriculture; the impacts of international trade and aid; and the effects of international development on U.S. agriculture.

Pathways: 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: AAEC-1005 or ECON-2005

Required By: ALS-4244

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 30

Average GPA: 3.18 (B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 27.26%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.44%

Catherine Larochelle202432.6%40.7%21.5%2.2%1.7%1.4%3.019
Anubhab Gupta202341.2%39.1%9.1%1.9%2.3%6.5%3.174
Susan M Richter201432.0%48.0%12.0%0.0%8.0%0.0%2.911
George W Norton201944.6%43.5%10.8%0.5%0.3%0.3%3.3016

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