The United Nation (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a series of 17 goals for world development that directly or indirectly agricultural focus on end of poverty and hunger, food security and nutrition, sustainable agriculture, management of water, sustainable energy, sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, resilient infrastructure, sustainable consumption and production patterns, climate change and its impacts, oceans, seas and marine resources, terrestrial ecosystems, forests, desertification, land degradation, biodiversity, peaceful and inclusive societies as well as global partnership,. In order to achieve the SDGs before the designated 2030 deadline, resource allocation must play a critical role in the organization of global society. This course on agricultural development aims to teach students to understand trends in international agricultural development. The key contemporary issues in international agriculture and development – including food security, food safety, poverty reduction, climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the effects of the financial crisis on agricultural development, food crises and food aid etc. The international agriculture and development highlights two major regional challenges, which are sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Agricultural productivity growth is vital for stimulating growth in other parts of the economy, but accelerated growth requires a sharp productivity increase in small holder farming combined with more effective support to the millions coping as subsistence farmers, many of them in remote areas. The success will also depend on concerted action by the international development community to confront the challenges ahead. We must level the playing field in goods, such as technologies for tropical food staples; help developing countries address climate change; and overcome looming health pandemics for plants, animals, and humans.