Geography
Global Food Security
Module code: 005GS
Level 6
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework, Essay
Achieving food security for 10 billion people while reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint is a major challenge of the next century.
You’ll discuss papers and explore the multiple dimensions of this challenge, including the:
- biophysical
- economic
- nutritional
- sociopolitical
- institutional.
Taking a global perspective on issues, you’ll draw on global research. You’ll also study case studies from different regions of the world to understand the geography of agricultural production, its environmental footprint and malnutrition.
Key topics include:
- global change and sustainable agriculture
- food security
- impact of climate change: mitigation and adaptation potential of agriculture
- water and food issues
- hunger and famine
- emerging issues in food security: GMOs, labels, diets, urban agriculture, organic agriculture and food waste.
Module learning outcomes
- Evaluate the main dimensions, metrics and indicators of food security.
- Understand and evaluate the different dimensions to food security using the current literature in global sustainable food security.
- Recognise the significance, assumptions, and limitations of arguments related to these dimensions of global food security and their applicability over time and across space
- Formulate academic arguments about contemporary food-security related issues and present them in varied forms.