Introduction to Food Systems

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This course explores the food system — a complex and adaptive network entangled within social, political, economic and natural environments at multiple levels. It includes investigations into the history of the system, as well as the effects of industrialization, globalization, and climate change. Students in this course also research food commodities, tracing their pathway from production to consumption throughout the local, regional and international food web. Further, students survey and debate alternative food production systems and critically analyze wicked problems related to food, health, economy, people, planet, policy and justice.