FST 3305 - World Hunger and Food Crisis

Credits: 4
More than 9 million people die every year of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases, most of them children in Africa. Nutritional deprivation affects more than one-quarter of the world’s population. Western (American and European) policies keep the world’s poorest hungry and unable to feed themselves. Why does hunger exist globally despite an abundance of food? This course is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of world hunger. It involves a critical examination of the political, economic, social, and ecological causes and consequences of hunger and famine. There are only a few other global problems of more dire significance in today’s world than world hunger. Through readings and research, students will learn about hunger in the United States and around the world in different historical and cultural contexts along with different explanations and solutions to hunger worldwide.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern