Agri Business and Economics

A topic at FarmingAcademy

Farming is a business. This topic includes the understanding of economics and building a business. Managing a business demands an understanding of the whole value chain.

Knowledge of the customer's demands and behaviour plus how to present your products and the story behind is important for the modern sustainable farmer as a business owner. The farmer. Management of the resources is the evolutionally responsibilizes given to humans as a direct consequence of their own well-developed brains. In other words, this is also the section for economics and business ethics.

Our Agri-Business and Economics team of

Educators

M.Sc. Agricultural Economics Richard Rozwadowski

Content Provider and Editor at FarmingAcademy. Born in the UK in 1954 and has a Masters in Agricultural Economics from Wye College, University of London. He has 20 years of farming experience in the UK, Poland and Ukraine, which includes the CEO or COO of large corporate agribusiness (over 18,000 Ha). Has worked as a consultant in 13 countries for many donors including World Bank, EU, EBRD and many bi-lateral donors.
Email: rr@farmingacademy.eu

Prof. of Agribusiness and Agri Economics (PhD) Ikechi K Agbugba

Content provider at FarmingAcademy. Born and raised at the University of Nigeria (UNN) in 1979 and later trained at UNN and Fort Hare University/Agricultural Research Council South Africa, where he earned a PhD degree and Postdoc experience, respectively. A regular speaker in international seminars, conferences, webinars and capacity building programmes.

E-mail: ia@farmingacademy.eu

Professor of Animal Science Paul Iji

Editor, content provider and Shareholder at FarmingAcademy. Born in Nigeria in 1962. PhD in Animal Science from The University of Adelaide, Australia in 1999.

Email: pl@farmingacademy.eu

M.Sc. Susanne Pejstrup

As the founder and owner of the consultancy company, Lean Farming® I have broad and practical experience in optimizing farm operations in more countries. I have been an agricultural consultant for more than 25 years and is graduated with a Master of Agricultural Science from The University of Copenhagen and a Master of Lean Production from Lean Academy, Denmark.

Email: sup@farmingacademy.eu

M.Sc. Economics Kassoum Coulibaly

Content provider at Farmingacademy. He is an economist, a strategist, an intellectual and social entrepreneur motivated and committed to global economic progress, global sustainable development and universal peace promotion with more than 15 years of working experience with Youth and Women across Africa and the World.

Email: kc@farmingacademy.eu

M.Sc. Agribusiness Henry Matthews

Expert in EU project ‘Improved Promotion and Marketing of Traditional Food Products in Azerbaijan. Masters in Agribusiness for Development. Imperial College, University of London. Senior lecturer, trainer and consultant Writtle University College UK. Practical farming experience in UK and Ukraine. Consultancy and training in Europe, Central Asia, Africa and South America.
Expertise: Agricultural and Horticultural Value Chains, Farm Management, Rural Business Development and Sustainability.

Dr. of Economics Dariusz Goszczyński

Content provider. For over 13 years was responsible in the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the approximation and development of the EU Food Quality Policy (organic farming, geographical indications), Common Organization of Agricultural Markets and selected measures of the Rural Development Programs 2007-2014 and 2014-2020. Education gained at the Warsaw Agric.University and doctoral studies at the Warsaw School of Economics.

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