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conceptual framework with hands-on exercises and the study of cases, focusing on
competitive management of agrifood chains and on quality. The Programme’s field
of study and operations is the firm, its relationship with the agrifood system and
with the domestic and international institutional environment.
In view of the great interest shown by other universities and institutions to actively
cooperate with FAUBA in food and agribusiness training activities, strategic
alliances were made through agreements with the FAP to teach the Executive
Management Postgraduate Course in their own venues. The Executive
Management Postgraduate Course in Food and Agribusiness of Pergamino ensued
from the agreement signed with the San Pablo School, while the Postgraduate
Course of Mar del Plata was created under an agreement with the Mar del Plata
Community College. These strategic alliances enabled professionals, entrepreneurs
and farmers living inland to train in food and agribusiness-related issues following
the same Programme conducted at the FAUBA venue. The training of future
leaders of individual or collective ventures was thus accomplished within the scope
of regional economies.
Taking advantage of the experience gained over the two years of training in food
and agribusiness at three different venues, a Quality-Oriented Postgraduate Course
in Food and Agribusiness was launched. The new course dwells on food safety and
food chain quality management and on agribusiness quality management. This
Executive Management Programme was launched to address the need expressed by
public and private institutions to train professionals in the field of quality, food
safety and leadership in order to further increase competitiveness in the agrifood
sector. A strategic alliance was made with IPACE (Institute for Quality and
Excellence) and SENASA (National Animal Health and Agrifood Quality Service),
the two most representative and prestigious institutions in Argentina in all that
concerns food safety and business quality.
A distance learning Executive Management Postgraduate Course in Food and
Agribusiness has also been designed, addressed to professionals, entrepreneurs and
farmers distant from educational centres and willing to embark on virtual learning.
Expert tutors guide remote students in every aspect of training. Students must
submit a monograph on every subject taken for evaluation by the professor of the
module.
The 2003 edition of the Executive Management Postgraduate Courses in Food and
Agribusiness will be conducted by FAUBA in Buenos Aires as a monthly or a weekly
face-to-face course and as a distance learning course. The Food and Agribusiness
Postgraduate Courses were welcomed with enthusiasm by professionals,
researchers and teachers related to the agribusiness sector and also by small and
medium-sized agricultural entrepreneurs.