Global Food Policy

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Globalization continuously shapes and reshapes our food systems. We benefit from international trade, yet we critique the system in which sustains us. Global value chains connect some of the world's poorest farmers to the wealthiest consumers through products like cacao (chocolate), fish, and rice. This course will serve as an interdisciplinary approach to international trade of agriculture and food. Drawing from economics, sociology, and business and informed by ethics, this course will explore the reasons nations exchange goods and services, particularly food and agricultural products. The course will assess the implications of these exchanges on people and the planet, given the underlying profit motives. Learners will engage the private and public policy frames that support and shape globalized food systems