The profile “International Agribusiness and Rural Development Economics” within the MSc program “Sustainable International Agriculture” trains students to analyse socio-economic interactions between individuals, resources and markets in agriculture using up-to-date quantitative and qualitative methods. Students acquire the tools they need to contribute to the provision of answers to vital questions ranging from the macro-level (e.g. global hunger, the world trade system) to the meso-level (e.g. the structure and performance of national and international food chains; food safety and quality issues) and the micro-level (e.g. the efficiency of agricultural production, participation and poverty at the household level) in agricultural systems.

You are taught by staff from Göttingen and Kassel-Witzenhausen who are representing the largest group of internationally recognised and internationally active agricultural economists in Germany (14 professors and many post-docs and lecturers). This enables us to provide you with specialised, cutting-edge teaching and supervision, and thus prepare you for exciting careers in research, business, national and regional governments and administration, and international organisations.

• Compulsory modules
  
  The following four compulsory modules must be taken:
  
  

  Code	Module	SS/WS	Location	Coordinator
  I12	Sustainable International Agriculture: basic principles and approaches	WS	Göttingen / Witzenhausen	Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht
  E01	World agricultural markets and trade	SS	Göttingen	Prof. Dr. B. Brümmer
  E08M	Econometrics I	WS	Göttingen	Prof. Dr. S. Sperlich
  E11	Socioeconomics of rural development and food security	WS	Göttingen	Prof. Dr. M. Qaim

  
  
  (Click on the module name for a description of the module. Click on the coordinator’s name for a link to his/ her website.)

• Mandatory modules
  
  Five mandatory modules must be chosen (among these, at least one methodological module). Click here for a list of the mandatory modules.

• Elective modules
  
  Six elective modules are to be chosen. You can also chose elective modules from the list of so far not attended mandatory modules. Click here for the list of elective modules.

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