We offer programs in environmental economics, natural resource economics, agribusiness management, food system economics, community and economic development, rural development, international trade, and demography. We also offer programs in social change, community structure, leadership, rural health, community planning, social stratification, structure of agriculture, consumer behavior and food ...

The Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University is an experimental, interdisciplinary effort to reshape how a new generation of scholars understands rural life and society. Its basic goal is to infuse the fresh air of popular knowledge and reasoning -- about poverty, subsistence, cultivation, justice, art, law, property, ritual life, cooperation, resource use, and state action -- into ...

Three undergraduate majors are offered in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology: Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics and Natural Resources and Rural Development. A Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics is also awarded.

Department of Rural Sociology at Texas A&M University ...

INTRODUCTION The Rural Sociology program at the University of Arkansas is housed in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, a department in the Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food, and Life Sciences. The program offers a Master of Arts degree in Sociology with a formal concentration in Rural Sociology. It is dedicated to research and education focused on the social, economic, and ...