Each year from August to November, graduate students in the CMAAE-accredited universities participate in the Shared Facility for Specialization and Electives (SFSE) which runs for 16 weeks. Beginning from 2020, the AERC implemented an innovative virtual teaching of SFSE courses to students across its network of collaborating universities. The curriculum for each of the CMAAE SFSE courses has been updated and bench-marked against leading Agricultural Economics graduate programmes globally, while teaching materials have been jointly