Gulf Region of Mexico Edition

The goal of this course is to acquaint students with the major issues and problems in international agriculture and rural development and demonstrate how problems in development are being addressed by various agencies in the Gulf Region of Mexico. The lectures/discussions explore the global and regional context for sustainable agricultural development and focus on broad development challenges in Latin America and selected cases in southern Mexico. This course may be taken as a stand-alone survey course in international agriculture. However, it is primarily a preparatory course for participants selected to participate in Agriculture in the Developing Nations II — Gulf of México Edition (IARD 602), which includes a field trip to this region in the intersession.

Class meetings: Fridays at 9:05 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (8:05 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in Mexico) in Emerson 135.  Videoconferences are held in Roberts 264.

Our course sessions are taped and can be accessed at the Cornell Transnational Learning site.