Agricultural Productivity – Agribusiness

Course summary:

The course develops participants’ skills and knowledge in the following ways:

Professional skills for agribusiness including:

• Business planning
• Marketing
• Financial Management

• • Value chain analysis
  • Addressing constraints to market integration and trade
  • Public-private partnerships in the agricultural sector
  • Exposure to value chains within Australian and African businesses or agencies
  • Increasing commercial viability of agricultural SMEs
  • Institutional and policy deficiencies in the agricultural sector (including the creation of an enabling environment for agribusinesses)
  • Linking smallholders into markets
  • Understanding and implementing inclusive agribusiness
  • Producing for export: good practice for maintaining stringent compliance for export market
  • Developing climate-smart agricultural value chains
  • Broader leadership and organisational management competencies to include project management, implementing change and public speaking
  • Addressing cross-cutting development issues (gender equity, inclusive development, ethics, transparency)

  Inputs from industry to highlight/demonstrate contemporary industry environments/ processes and share knowledge are a valuable element of this short course.