GSN 544E - Food Systems: Global and Ecological Issues

Credit(s): 2.00

In this course, students explore global and federal organizations participating in the food system; global food policy and trade agreements; food production, processing and distribution; and food security, food access, food waste, and agricultural sustainability on a global perspective. Students will examine food certification, food labeling, food marketing misinformation, food health claims, organic, GMO, farmed fish, cultural traditions and religious impacts of food choice, and the global malnutrition paradox.