Food, Hunger and Development
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| PHIR3004 | Politics and International Relations | 3 | 20 | Autumn Malaysia |
- Code
- PHIR3004
- School
- Politics and International Relations
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn Malaysia
Summary
- Defining the concepts of hunger, famine and food security.
- Ways of understanding the problem ¡V from food availability to food entitlement.
- Global patterns of and trends in food production, trade and consumption.
- The colonial legacy in contemporary food production.
- Globalisation, agribusiness, export crops, liberalisation and food.
- Famine: causes and prevention policies.
- What role for land reform?
- Case studies in food security in India and Latin America.
- The future for food security: trade or self-sufficiency?
Target Students
PHIR year 3 Available to JYA/Erasmus students.
Classes
- One 1-hour seminar each week for 12 weeks
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 40% Coursework 1: 2000 word essay
- 60% Coursework 2: 3000 word essay.
Educational Aims
By the end of the module students will:1) Have an understanding of the nature and causes of food (in)security, hunger and malnutrition within developing countries at micro and macro level.2) Be prepared to engage with the theoretical demands of honours research projectsLearning Outcomes
a) Knowledge and understanding:
1. Have a basic understanding of the global pattern and trends of food production, trade and consumption since 1945.
2. Understand and be able to assess the processes of change taking place within the social organisation of food systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
3. Understand the effects, including age and gender differences, that the above processes are having upon food security at all levels within developing countries.
4. Know and be able to evaluate the range of responses in the realms of production and exchange in food security.
b) Intellectual skills
5. Understand and be able to assess the processes of change taking place within the social organisation of food systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
6. Understand the effects, including age and gender differences, that the above processes are having upon food security at all levels within developing countries.
7. Know and be able to evaluate the range of responses in the realms of production and exchange in food security.
8. Articulate relationships between conceptual and practice issues in food security raised across the unit in a coherent, clear and concise way.
9. Have developed an advanced ability to draw linkages between food security and other development issues covered across the course.
c) Professional and practical skills
10. Know and be able to evaluate the range of responses in the realms of production and exchange in food security.
11. Have further developed skills of essay writing, information retrieval, planning and self-reflection
12. Have developed an advanced ability to draw linkages between food security and other development issues covered across the course.
d) Transferable (key) skills.
Through active participation in the module students will acquire:
13. Have further developed skills of essay writing, information retrieval, planning and self-reflection
14. Have developed an advanced ability to draw linkages between food security and other development issues covered across the course.