林肯大学的国际农村发展研究生证书是农业综合贸易学院和环境，社会与设计学院的联合课程。它为学生提供知识，技能和价值观，使其参与发展政策和实践的经济，政治和社会层面。在课程学习期间，您将了解国际农村发展及其对可持续社会和经济增长的重要性，这些问题将促进有利于穷人的经济增长和自然资源可持续利用的可持续农村生计，政策，机构，程序和做法，以及了解在国际农村发展背景下如何应用所有这些的关键技能和能力。
Lincoln University's Postgraduate Certificate in International Rural Development is a joint programme between the Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce and the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design. It provides students with knowledge, skills and values to engage with the economic, political and social dimensions of development policy and practice.During the programme you will gain an understanding of international rural development and its importance to sustainable social and economic growth, the problems constraining sustainable rural livelihoods, policy, institutions, processes and practices that promote pro-poor economic growth and sustainable use of natural resources, and the critical skills and abilities to understand how all these are applied in an international rural development context.