Food, Ecology, and Agrarian Change

3.0 credits · Graduate

This seminar is concerned with agri-food systems and their socio-ecological relations. There is increased attention and public discourse on agriculture and food systems, and its increasingly evident health and ecological implications. This seminar works with social science analytical approaches and contemporary issues and processes concerning food, ecology and agrarian change from development studies, sociology, geography, anthropology and related disciplines. The goal of the seminar is to develop analytical perspectives on the relationships embedded in food and agrarian systems and their political, social and ecological implications, and to explore various alternatives to the dominant mode of agriculture and agrarian relations.