Food Production and Climate Change

(4 Credits)

RProvides an overview of our current global food system, which is embedded within larger environmental systems that it both impacts and depends on. Explores the evolution of our food system and how humans have modified the environment in order to meet increasing food demand. Examines how climate change and variability impact our ability to grow and harvest crops, and how these impacts vary across geographic, economic, and even gender space. Finally, addresses the environmental footprint of emerging food movements, their efficacy, and a host of alternative future food production trajectories that promise a range of environmental, socio-economic and nutritional impacts.