ENV 2118 - Changing Food Systems

Credits: 4
This course examines contemporary efforts and initiatives to address the challenges of sustainability, health, and equity in our agri-food systems. Globalization and neoliberalism, rapid technological change, human population growth and migration, environmental and resource degradation, climate change, and rising social inequalities together form an important backdrop for growing concern among consumers, citizens, civil society groups and social movements worldwide about the conditions and outcomes of agri-food systems.Governments at multiple scales, large corporations and smaller businesses have also responded to address some of these concerns about the environmental, economic, health, and social impacts of agri-food systems. How do these various efforts approach agri-food systems change? Where do they align? Where do they diverge? What do they accomplish? Who do they engage and prioritize? Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the North American context, this course considers multiple aspects of agri-food systems from “the farm to the fork” and back again.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural