RMES 500T: Global Food Security and Sustainability

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Resource Management and Environmental Studies (RMES) is pleased to introduce a new graduate course open to all graduate departments starting in 2014 term 2 (January 2015). Senior Undergraduate students permitted with the instructor’s permission.

Please find the course details attached and below:

RMES 500T: Global Food Security and Sustainability

Instructor: Navin Ramankutty

2014 Term 2 (January 5, 2015 – April 10, 2015)

Mondays 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Location: AERL 107/108

RMES 500T

Achieving food security for 10 billion while enhancing the sustainability of our food production system is a major challenge of the next century. This graduate seminar course will discuss papers on the multiple dimensions of this challenge, including biophysical, economic, nutritional, socio-political, and institutional. We will take a global perspective on the issues, drawing upon both global-scale research as well as case studies from different regions of the world to understand the geography of agricultural production, its environmental footprint, and of malnutrition.

 

RMES 500T Syllabus:

http://ires.ubc.ca/files/2010/06/RMES-500-Navin-Ramankutty-Global-Food-Security-and-Sustainability-PDF.pdf

 

RMES Courses Descriptions:

http://ires.ubc.ca/graduate-courses/

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