MFRE is opening limited seats to non MFRE Grad students to take the following 6 weeks course (1.5 credits):

Navigating the Opportunities and Risks in Global Food and Resource Governance taught by Dr. Matias Margulis

Students taking this course will develop a better understanding of the roles of governments, businesses, civil society and international institutions in global food and resource policy-making.  The course is organized around the examination of real-world controversies in global food and resource governance – such as, but not limited, to global food crises, large-scale land acquisitions, and the agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organization.  We will use these cases as the basis to explore how an issue or problem comes to be placed on the international policy agenda, which actors get to participate in the global policy-making process, and why global policy-making efforts succeed or fail.  Students who complete this course will develop substantive knowledge of global policy-making around food and resources and be able to assess the efficacy, fairness and legitimacy of, and possible alternatives to, current global policies and governance arrangements.

 Class Schedule:

• Fridays, Jan 7 to Feb 12
• 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
• Online

You can view the outline here.

 Please email Gabi at gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca if you are interested.

Best,

Gabi

Gabrielle Menard  MFRE (She, Her, Hers)
Academic Coordinator, Graduating Projects Manager
Land and Food Systems | Master of Food and Resource Economics
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 764 0305
gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca
http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/