The course aims to:· Acquaint the learners with the fundamental concepts underlying international trade.· To give the learners an appreciation of the factors that make international trade to be an important policy agenda;· Provide the learners with a firm foundation to develop basic analytical skills for diagnosing, describing and analyzing agricultural trade policy problems;· Provide the learners with an appreciation of the why nations should constantly monitor changes in the international market environment;· To understand the role of economic integration.
Upon completion of the course, the students will have acquired:· An appreciation of why nations engage in trade with each other.· theoretical and analytical skills to diagnose, describe and analyze agricultural trade policy problems;· theoretical and analytical skills to analyze and evaluate the impacts of the contemporary trade policy options available to policy-makers;· analytical skills to analyze the economic and welfare effects of trade policies;