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| 農学基礎ゼミ [Basic Seminar of Agricultural Science] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 1.5 | |
| Department | Applied Biological Science, Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Ecoregion Science, Cooperative Department of Veterinary Medicine | Year | 1～ | Semester | Spring |
| Course type | Spring | Course code | 01FY0001g | ||
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| 草処 基 [KUSADOKORO Motoi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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Subject of this Seminar: Agriculture and Rural Development In recent years, many countries of the world including China and India have achieved economic development with reduced population living in poverty. However, poverty and economic inequality still remain in the world, and most of those people live in the rural area of developing countries. To mitigate this problem, a lot of development policies and projects have been implemented in the world. The main objects of this seminar are to learn the following issues regarding agriculture and rural development. 1) Why should be economic development achieved? 2) What is poverty in rural area? 3) Why do development policies and projects fail to achieve economic development and mitigate poverty? 4) What are desirable and effective development policies and projects? |
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The goals of this seminar are to understand the following issues, to have own ideas for these issues, and to express the ideas. 1) Why should be economic development achieved? 2) What is poverty in rural area? 3) Why do development policies and projects fail to achieve economic development and mitigate poverty? 4) What are desirable and effective development policies and projects? |
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1. May 24/ Introduction 2. May 31/ Movie appreciation: On the way to school 3. June 7/ Movie appreciation: A Time for Drunken Horses 4. June 14/ Reading textbooks: World Bank, World Development Report, Chapter 1. Growth and Poverty Reduction in Agriculture 5. June 21/ Reading textbooks: World Bank, World Development Report, Chapter 1. Growth and Poverty Reduction in Agriculture 6. June 28/ Reading textbooks: Otsuka, K. Why do poverty nations still remain?, Chapter 4. We must avoid starvation by all means. 7. July 5/ Reading textbooks: Banerjee, A.V. and Duflo, E. Poor Economics, Chapter 2. A billion hungry people? 8. July 12/ Reading textbooks: Banerjee, A.V. and Duflo, E. Poor Economics, Chapter 5. Pak Sudarno's big family 9. July 19/ Reading textbooks: Otsuka, K. Why do poverty nations still remain?, Chapter 6. Things that developing countries must not do 10. July 26/ Discussions |
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World Bank (2008) World Development Report 2008. World Bank. Banerjee, A.V. and Duflo, E. (2012) Poor Economics. Public Affairs. Otsuka, K. (2014) Naze Mazushii Kuni ha Nakunaranainoka (Why do poverty nations still remain?) Nihon Keizai Shinbunsya. |
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| 3/26/2018 8:23:07 PM |