ANIMAL AGRICULTURE AND GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Explores global agriculture and sustainable development, highlighting the interdependence between U.S. agriculture and agriculture in emerging economies. Uses a regional approach with crop and livestock case studies to examine topics such as population and food security, immigration, environmental impacts, crop and livestock production, global trade, sustainability, the role of women in agriculture, and the contribution of dairy products to a healthy diet.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply sustainability principles and/or framework to addressing the challenge of feeding an increasing world population sustainably. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Define and characterize sustainability, sustainable agriculture and Sustainable Development Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the contributions of animal agriculture to the Sustainable Development Goals both in developing and developed countries. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of diverse animal agricultural systems both in developing and developed countries. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Evaluate the role of livestock in communities where poverty, hunger and marginalization are embedded as a way of life. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Critically evaluate the causes of —and ways to break— the chains of hunger and poverty among the poorest of the poor. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply sustainability principles and/or framework to addressing the challenge of feeding an increasing world population sustainably. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Define and characterize sustainability, sustainable agriculture and Sustainable Development Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the contributions of animal agriculture to the Sustainable Development Goals both in developing and developed countries. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of diverse animal agricultural systems both in developing and developed countries. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Evaluate the role of livestock in communities where poverty, hunger and marginalization are embedded as a way of life. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Critically evaluate the causes of —and ways to break— the chains of hunger and poverty among the poorest of the poor. Audience: Undergraduate
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