It seems that all is well on the agricultural front and the main role of the graduating students is to use the techniques and farming equipment they have studied to increase production, so that the needs for food and healthy food can be met.
It is in this context that my attention was drawn to this announcement made by economist and author Christopher Blattman regarding the proposed sociology curriculum for the Master’s degree in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, ‘The Social Science of Policymaking in International Development – How to Change the World.’ Before you say what is new in it, look at the description of this curriculum, ‘You want to make the world a better place, but how? Many policies fail, many good intentions go awry, why is that?’ What makes a policy good? What makes it bad? This curriculum is for a class on the social sciences of policy making, in which subjects such as economics, political science, sociology and modern science will also be part of the study and in addition to this, the personal experiences of the researchers will also be made part of the study work of this class. It also states that the curriculum will focus on policy making in a global context, especially international policy and development.
