World Food Issues Syllabus • Title: World Food Issues: Past and Present • Semester: Fall 2014 • Course: – Agron. 342, FSHN 342, Env. S. 342 – Tech. Soc.Ch. 342 • Calendar: – August 25 – December 12 (No Final Exam) • Instructor: Clark Ford – 2567 Food Sci, 294-0343, [email protected]• Course Website: – http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cfford/342WFI.h tm • Required text: – The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World – by H.D. Leathers and P. Foster, 4th Edition, 2009. • Brenton Center: – Contact in case of computer or WebCT problems – [email protected], phone: 515 294- http://www.amazon.com/World-Food-Problem-Toward- Undernutrition/dp/1588266389
Title: World Food Issues: Past and Present Semester: Fall 2014 Course: Agron. 342, FSHN 342, Env. S. 342 Tech. Soc.Ch. 342 Calendar: August 25 – December 12 (No Final Exam) Instructor: Clark Ford 2567 Food Sci, 294-0343, [email protected] Course Website: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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World Food Issues Syllabus• Title: World Food Issues: Past and Present• Semester: Fall 2014• Course:
Course Description1: The way things are in the present
• World Hunger in developing nations
• Interrelated global, economic, political and social issues:– Poverty and inequity– food production, – biotechnology, – ecological destruction,– population growth, – policy, and aid.
• Ethical issues concerning these topics will be discussed.
World Hunger Map
www.feedingminds.org/ img/map_world.jpg
Course Description2: How things got this way
• The agricultural revolution• Hierarchical agricultural societies • Food production and geography • Invention and technology• Winners and losers in 10,000 years of
– Conquest and population growth – Interaction of religion, government, and
economic systems • Unequal treatment of women• The industrial revolution• Colonialism and imperialism• Global economic domination