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MA Agriculture and Rural Development
You’ll cover the policies and practices of the major international institutions in rural development – including the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Development Programme and La Via Campesina. You’ll also gain cutting-edgeinsights on the relationship between agriculture and rural development.
With these topics back at the top of the international development agenda, you’ll graduate ready to take on a fulfilling career or further study in the area.
Gain an overview of agriculture, rural livelihoods, rural policy and politics. You’ll strengthen your analytical prowess and graduate with a set of widely transferable skills.
Focus on the dynamic interactions between local livelihoods and agriculture as a globalised industry. Take an interdisciplinary perspective on the global, national and local level processes that shape agriculture and rural development. And integrate your knowledge by using a mix of social sciences, economics and natural resource studies.You’ll cover the policies and practices of the major international institutions in rural development – including the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Development Programme and La Via Campesina. You’ll also gain cutting-edgeinsights on the relationship between agriculture and rural development.
With these topics back at the top of the international development agenda, you’ll graduate ready to take on a fulfilling career or further study in the area.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV), United Kingdom
International Development MA
This course attracts students from a variety of backgrounds. It will develop your professional skills in development research and practice. You'll go on a unique placement-based dissertation that combines work experience with academic research. You'll also carry out hands-on research during an overseas field class. Our graduates have gone on to work for a wide variety of organisations, including the World Bank, the British Red Cross, UNDP, WildAid, World Vision and Save the Children. This MA draws on our research strengths and internationally-recognised expertise in the areas of social and environmental justice, rural and urban development, governance, citizenship and sustainability. Our teaching involves industry and sector specialists, which means you can make connections and contacts with a global network of expertise beyond the University.
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)
Develop a critical understanding of the subject area through coursework, applied training and professional activities – and acquire the skills for a career in international development.This course attracts students from a variety of backgrounds. It will develop your professional skills in development research and practice. You'll go on a unique placement-based dissertation that combines work experience with academic research. You'll also carry out hands-on research during an overseas field class. Our graduates have gone on to work for a wide variety of organisations, including the World Bank, the British Red Cross, UNDP, WildAid, World Vision and Save the Children. This MA draws on our research strengths and internationally-recognised expertise in the areas of social and environmental justice, rural and urban development, governance, citizenship and sustainability. Our teaching involves industry and sector specialists, which means you can make connections and contacts with a global network of expertise beyond the University.
DegreeLanguage
- English
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), United Kingdom
MSc Sustainable International Agriculture (SIA)
The SIA study program contributes to the sustainable production of agricultural commodities and food security at specific locations and in an international context. SIA students will be enabled to:
- understand the ecological interactions of natural and agrarian systems in a global context,
- acquire up-to-date knowledge in natural and socio-economic sciences,
- obtain social and methodical skills,
- apply the acquired knowledge and skills in an international context concerning (organic) agriculture,
- in order to participate in the world-wide development of resource-efficient agricultural production.
All SIA modules are taught in English. The study programme is internationally oriented and offers three possibilities for specialization:
- International Agribusiness and Rural Development Economics
- International Organic Agriculture
- Tropical Agriculture
International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)
The MSc Sustainable International Agriculture (SIA) is a joint venture of two German Universities: The University of Kassel in Witzenhausen (Organic Agricultural Sciences) and the University of Göttingen (Agricultural Sciences).The SIA study program contributes to the sustainable production of agricultural commodities and food security at specific locations and in an international context. SIA students will be enabled to:
- understand the ecological interactions of natural and agrarian systems in a global context,
- acquire up-to-date knowledge in natural and socio-economic sciences,
- obtain social and methodical skills,
- apply the acquired knowledge and skills in an international context concerning (organic) agriculture,
- in order to participate in the world-wide development of resource-efficient agricultural production.
All SIA modules are taught in English. The study programme is internationally oriented and offers three possibilities for specialization:
- International Agribusiness and Rural Development Economics
- International Organic Agriculture
- Tropical Agriculture
International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), Germany
Ph.D. Course: 'Rural Transformations in the 21st Century'
- Centre for Development and the Environment
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo (SUM)
The objective of this interdisciplinary course is to critically analyze – empirically and conceptually – processes of transformation in rural areas as related to access to and governance of resources and how these are reshaping the lives of people living there. The application deadline is 5 April, 2018. An early application is highly recommended due to space constraints.Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo (SUM), Norway
Master in Anthropology and Sociology
We aim to foster in our students the analytical, methodological, and conceptual capacities needed to develop nuanced understandings of, and responses to, the transnational and globalized dimensions of many of today’s most urgent social, cultural, political, and economic problems. Students complete our program well prepared for careers in the international, public, private, and nonprofit sectors. A number of our MA students also go on to pursue PhDs in ANSO or other internationally competitive doctoral programs.
IHEID
Graduate Institute (IHEID)
Our two-year Master’s program offers rigorous training in anthropology and sociology through a combination of coursework in small class settings, opportunities for independent field research, and close mentoring. During the program students acquire a breadth and depth of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary knowledge, as well as research skills across a variety of methodological approaches.We aim to foster in our students the analytical, methodological, and conceptual capacities needed to develop nuanced understandings of, and responses to, the transnational and globalized dimensions of many of today’s most urgent social, cultural, political, and economic problems. Students complete our program well prepared for careers in the international, public, private, and nonprofit sectors. A number of our MA students also go on to pursue PhDs in ANSO or other internationally competitive doctoral programs.
DegreeLanguage
- English
Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland
IHEID
MA Agriculture and Rural Development
The MA gives an overview of agriculture, rural livelihoods and rural policy and politics to strengthen students analytical skills and to transfer key professional skills of relevance to work on rural development and agriculture. Lectures, seminars, group work and individual assignment will cover the policies and practices of the major international institutions in rural development, including the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation and United Nations Development Programme, just as much as of civil society organisations, such as La Via Campesina.
The MA Agriculture and Rural Development degree is offered over one year full-time, or two years part-time.
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)
This MA is unique for its focus on the dynamic interactions between local livelihoods in rural areas and agriculture understood as a globalised industry. It advances an interdisciplinary perspective on linkages between global national and local level processes shaping agriculture and rural development by integrating knowledge from the social sciences economics and natural resource studies.The MA gives an overview of agriculture, rural livelihoods and rural policy and politics to strengthen students analytical skills and to transfer key professional skills of relevance to work on rural development and agriculture. Lectures, seminars, group work and individual assignment will cover the policies and practices of the major international institutions in rural development, including the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation and United Nations Development Programme, just as much as of civil society organisations, such as La Via Campesina.
The MA Agriculture and Rural Development degree is offered over one year full-time, or two years part-time.
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV), United Kingdom