Global food security/GFS101/Syllabus

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Familiarise yourself with the course site

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Orientation

Familiarise yourself with the course site.


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  • Make sure you have read and begun to engage with the Start Here menu.

Key activities:

  1. Work through the learning materials for the Overview. It will help orientate your learning.
  2. Complete the OERu new participant survey (optional).



Thinking Through Food Security

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Thinking Through Food Security

A good place to start to understand Global Food Security is asking what being food secure means and understanding that many people on this earth, in particular from the developing world, on a daily basis face the existential threat of being food insecure..


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Exploring the Global Food System

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Exploring the Global Food System

The global food system has become the dominant mechanism for food production and consumption in many parts of the world. To being we take we take a look at agriculture and its origins.


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Ethics and choices: skills for tackling global food security

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Earth Systems Exchange

In this week's content Rob explores some of the normative statements you have been hearing throughout the unit. This week's content will enable you to question:

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Population, Hunger, Inequality

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Population, Hunger, Inequality

This week's content will enable you to:

  • Understand global population change from 1950 to the present and likely scenarios through to 2050.
  • Reflect on the future in relation to ideas of global food security, and particularly on the relationship between the production of food production and the distribution of food.
  • Consider the relationship between food and population.
  • Understand the basic features of global food production change from 1950 to the present.
  • Consider the relationship between food and economic inequality


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