Food, Farming, and Protein Futures

3 Credits.

Explores critical food system priorities including the dynamics between agriculture and the climate crisis, emerging threats from zoonotic diseases, agricultural land use, and the health of workers and rural populations. Invites insights from leading experts on alternative proteins, institutional food procurement, carbon sequestration, and other advances in food system change. Challenges students to reconcile competing priorities and conflicting recommendations. Applies an array of frameworks, including a One Health lens, to the public health and ecological impacts of food production. Draws lectures from the peer-reviewed literature and includes dynamic podcast-style interviews.