Course Code: C138

Course Title: Marketing for small agribusinesses

College: SOAS CEDEP

Course Director: Nigel Poole

Course Description: Markets are widely recognised as a key component of development. Many governments and international donors now embrace the need to enable producers to take advantage - even create - business opportunities. The concept of Making Markets Work for the Poor' is a way of bringing the benefits of economic growth to poorer parts of society. This course is aimed at students and researchers from the academic world and development practitioners - from private business, government departments, international development agencies or non-governmental organisations (NGOs) - who work with micro- and small enterprises based mainly but not exclusively in rural areas, what we call small agribusinesses'.

The course addresses a broad range of economic sectors. The concepts and principles apply not only to smallholder farmers, but also to food processors, traders and intermediaries, collectors and processors of forest products, fishermen, or producers of other natural resource-based artisanal products or handicrafts. Markets for these product markets are also linked to markets for services, such as wage labour and business support, which are integral to developing a thriving economy.

The course will assist you to understand how markets function, and enable you to develop practical skills to support small agribusinesses in marketing their products, to identify intervention points and to design approaches whereby outsider stakeholders can promote markets and pro-poor economic development.

Assessment: Exam 100%

Course Credit: All SOAS CeDEP short course students receive a certificate of completion. Students of SOAS CeDEP Short Courses who may wish to transfer credit to Certificate, Diploma or Masters-level programmes are advised to select short courses which also act as Core Modules on CeDEP's various programmes.

Course Study Hours/Duration: 240 hrs over 35 weeks

Schedule of Availability: Feb - Oct (Enrolment deadline prior to Feb start - 30th November)

Delivery Mechanisms: Print; CD-Rom; Online Discussion

Cost: £960

How to apply: To enquire about applying for this course, or for any other information, please contact the Course Administrator using the online Enquiry Form below