Unlock the skills to solve humanity’s most pressing challenge: feeding a growing world sustainably. This dynamic module equips you with cutting-edge tools to analyze global agrifood chains, climate impacts, and market dynamics from farm to fork. Through real-world case studies and hands-on systems mapping, you will master the expertise needed to drive food security, shape policy, and build resilient, equitable food environments. Whether you want to lead international development, influence environmental policy, or innovate in the global agricultural sector, this course is your gateway to making a measurable impact. Transform your passion into high-demand professional expertise; enroll today and become a leader in the future of global food systems.
Strategic Management in Agribusiness is an advanced MSc-level module that transitions you from operational management to high-level strategic leadership in the volatile global food and agriculture sector. Taught by Dr. Mulinga Narcisse, the course equips you with critical thinking skills and analytical frameworks to navigate biological risks, price volatility, policy shifts and sustainability demands. You will master environment scanning, apply Resource-Based View and Industrial Organization theories, formulate competitive and corporate strategies, and develop effective implementation plans aligning structure, culture, resources and leadership. By integrating ethics, sustainability and technological innovation into decision-making, this module prepares you to formulate, implement and evaluate strategies that achieve sustainable competitive advantage and transform agribusiness enterprises.
Agribusiness Value-Chain Management is a transformative MSc module that takes you from farm to fork in the modern global agrifood economy. Moving beyond individual firms to the efficiency of the entire chain, this course equips you with the critical concepts, tools and strategies to analyze, govern, and upgrade agribusiness value chains. You will master how to differentiate supply chains from value chains, decode governance structures and power dynamics among actors, apply systemic tools like chain mapping, margin analysis and bottleneck identification, and design innovative, sustainable solutions integrating digital technology, logistics, finance and quality management. Through real-world cases in coffee, cocoa and potato value chains, you will learn to enhance competitiveness, sustainability and equitable value distribution, preparing you to lead and innovate in a volatile, consumer-driven agrifood sector.
The module of Farm Management and Agriculture Finance deals with the general concepts, principles and methods of farm management as well as the aspects and challenges of financing agriculture. Without being exhaustive, the course will address the economic principles of agricultural production, the different approaches and tools for farm management: economic, analytical, systemic and strategic as well as the risk in agriculture and the role of the different actors. The course will also provide students with skills for developing a strategic plan for the development of farms using economic optimization tools (General Algebraic Modeling Systems, GAMS) and development of a technical management advice report and decision making tools for technical and economic direction of the farm.