Objectives

• To provide advice in agricultural economics to public and private institutions when they require it.
• To generate, improve and disseminate the knowledge and techniques that are applied in the productive process, transformation and commercialization of goods and services of the agri-food sector and others related.
• To create methodological schemes and establish an information unit that makes easier and accelerates the research processes for different users in agricultural economics and the agri-food sector.
• To develop training programs in agricultural economics and agribusiness for national and foreign professionals.
• To share projects and programs with other universities, especially with the Experimental Stations and Research Centers of the College of Agri-food Science.
• To develop scientific research in the different fields of agricultural economics and agribusiness development, preferably with a multidisciplinary scope. CIEDA’s actions will try to promote the interaction of different social, academic and economic aspects of Costa Rican agri-food sector.
• To create a flow of information and dissemination of different research results to be used in decision-making and in the formulation of national policies for planning and agri-sustainable development.

Main functions

• Advising and consulting, training and contracted research in the following areas: food security, economic policy, natural resource economy, agricultural economy and agribusiness development, trade in agricultural products.

Remunerated

• Contracted research with the external sector that requests support in areas related to the agricultural economy and agribusiness development.

Non Remunerated

• Plant research in the agricultural, agro-industrial, and agri-food sector such as: food security, rural development, agricultural economy and agribusiness development, trade in agricultural products, and policy of the agriculture sector.