Agricultural Sciences

This course examines the impact of food policy and of regulatory framework on price, production, and trade flows, incomes, rural communities, the environment, agriculture, food processing, and retailing. Students in the course analyze the development and impact of food policy in Europe, the US, and in other selected countries. On completion of the course, students are able to: discuss the different approaches to policy analysis; employ different theoretical approaches to the study of food policy; describe contemporary food and agricultural policies in selected developed market economies; assess the impact of contemporary food and agricultural policies in selected developed market economies; and assess the implications of current policy developments for the Irish agricultural and food sectors.

This course examines the mechanics and productivity of a broad range of forest harvesting systems, as well as topics on forest access.

This course examines forest classification and the application of silvics in forest management, including world forest classification systems, the Biogeoclimactic Ecosystem Classification system, and ecosystem diagnosis in the field.