The Global Food System: Power, Politics, and Human Rights

Catalog description

This course will examine power and politics in the global food system and will explore the efforts of various actors to shift power dynamics—using the narratives and frameworks of food justice, food sovereignty, and the right to food—to build food systems that are sustainable, nourishing and just. Students will also explore historic and contemporary manifestations of structural racism in our food system, as well as the environmental and ecological impacts of industrial food production.