ERS 460
Sustainable Food: Localizing Food Systems
Fall 2019 · Sustainable Food: Regional Case Study
Topics
- Chinese and regional food systems
- Food security and sovereignty
- Agrarian change
- Energy–water–food relations
- Sustainable diets
- Urban food systems
- Food waste
Readings
- Zhou, Z.-Y. (2015). Food security in China: past, present and the future. In Food Security and Development: Country Case Studies, pp. 35–56.
- Zhang, H. (2018). Securing the Rice Bowl: China and Global Food Security, chapter 3, pp. 65–93.
- Food Climate Research Network (2015). China briefing papers: Environmental transformations; Focus on aquaculture; Supply chain transformations; Socio-cultural transformations.
- Wang, J. et al. (2017). Growing water scarcity, food security and government responses in China. Global Food Security 14, 9–17.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2019
- Archived syllabus. Selected assigned readings; regional focus is China.