Beyond our certificate and diploma courses, IDA runs focused, hands-on training in the quantitative methods used for real-world policy and market analysis — taught by researchers who use them every day.
Our training philosophy is simple: learn by building. Rather than lectures alone, participants work through real datasets and real models, leaving with a skill they can apply immediately in research, teaching, or policy work.
A structural economic — multi-market, multi-region, dynamic partial equilibrium — model for mid- and long-term agricultural forecasting.
This course introduces participants to the concepts, structure, and applications of the model, and how it helps policymakers assess the sectoral impacts of price reforms, trade liberalization, and technological change on agricultural production, consumption, and trade. It bridges economic theory and its technical computation — leading to forecasting — and shows how model results inform national and international agricultural policymakers and business leaders.
