X. Degree Programs
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE)
Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Ontario Agricultural College
The Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics major addresses the means by which individuals, acting in a society, achieve
their wants and desires with respect to food quality and production, environmental quality and resource use, and broader goals
as they relate to the food-resource-agriculture interface. This major builds the student’s capacity to address these issues
by developing an understanding of economic theory and applied methods in both the Canadian and world context. Beyond the core
offering, the major provides the flexibility for students to pursue thematic areas of study, as well as an opportunity to
take additional liberal arts courses. In addition, this major provides excellent background for those students planning to
undertake graduate work in food, agricultural or resource economics and other fields of applied economics.
Major (Honours Program)
| A minimum of 10.00 credits, consisting of the 8.50 credits specified below plus 1.50 credits of restricted electives, is required,
including:
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| ACCT*2220 |
[0.50] |
Financial Accounting |
| AGR*1250 |
[0.50] |
Agrifood System Trends & Issues |
| AGR*2400 |
[0.50] |
Economics of the Canadian Food System |
| FARE*1300 |
[0.50] |
Poverty, Food & Hunger |
| FARE*2410 |
[0.50] |
Agrifood Markets and Policy |
| FARE*2700 |
[0.50] |
Survey of Natural Resource Economics |
| FARE*3030 |
[0.50] |
The Firm and Markets |
| FARE*4000 |
[0.50] |
Agricultural and Food Policy |
| ECON*1050 |
[0.50] |
Introductory Microeconomics |
| ECON*1100 |
[0.50] |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
| ECON*2310 |
[0.50] |
Intermediate Microeconomics |
| ECON*2410 |
[0.50] |
Intermediate Macroeconomics |
| ECON*2740 |
[0.50] |
Economic Statistics |
| ECON*2770 |
[0.50] |
Introductory Mathematical Economics |
| ECON*3740 |
[0.50] |
Introduction to Econometrics |
| One of: |
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| One of: |
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| 1.50 additional credits, at least of which 0.50 credits must be at the 4000 level, chosen from the following list of thematic
streams with the Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics specialization:
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| Agri-business Management: |
| FARE*2050 |
[0.50] |
Markets for Molecules |
| FARE*3400 |
[0.50] |
Agribusiness Financial Management |
| FARE*4220 |
[0.50] |
Advanced Agribusiness Management |
| FARE*4240 |
[0.50] |
Futures and Options Markets |
| FARE*4370 |
[0.50] |
Food & Agri Marketing Management |
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| Food and Agricultural Economics: |
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| International Agricultural Development Economics: |
| FARE*3250 |
[0.50] |
Food, Nutrition & International Development |
| FARE*4210 |
[0.50] |
World Agriculture and Economic Development |
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| Resource Economics: |
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Notes: A student may obtain permission to substitute certain other courses for the ones listed if the substitute courses fit with
the students program. Approval from a departmental advisor is required.
Unless taken to satisfy the requirements of another program, no student may receive credit in this program for more than one
of the following statistics prerequisites ECON*2740, STAT*2040, STAT*2060, or STAT*2080.
