MODULE 5: AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT & RURAL POLICY

Unit 1: Sustainable Agricultural Development: SDGs

Coordinators: Erdenechuluun Tumur, School of Economics and Business, MULS

Lecturer:  Erdenechuluun Tumur MULS, Nyamjargal Gombo FAO RO Mongolia; Meruert Etekbay, MULS, a Guest lecturer from the List of teachers within the AGRIMBA network (Annex 1)

Agricultural development economics

Learn contemporary agricultural development and rural development policy and exercise agribusiness decision making in consideration with SDGs and global economics change

Focusing on food and agriculture, investing in rural people, and transforming the rural

sector – actions associated with the holistic vision of SDG2 – can speed progress towards all

17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Blended e-learning

Interaction with teachers and fellow students

Self-guided group work

Introduction to Sustainable Development Goal indicators under agriculture  development

SDG Indicator 2.1.2: Using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

SDG Indicator 2.a.1: Agriculture orientation index;

SDG Indicator 2.c.1: Food price anomalies

SDG Indicator 5.a.1: Share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

SDG Indicator 5.a.2: Ensuring women’s legal rights to land ownership and/or control

SDG Indicator 6.4.2: Substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity: Level of water stress

SDG Indicator 14.b.1: Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets: Progress by countries in the degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small-scale fisheries (Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries)

Carrying out of SDG related cases and developing its M&E indicators an agribusiness entity level

Written and oral exam

FAO (2017) FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: Driving action across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,