Syllabus: ECO 190: World Food Supply, Population, and Environment

Class Syllabus. This course provides students with an understanding of global, national, regional, and local food systems and their relationship to population and the environment. We focus on the impact of human population, migration, disease, and poverty on global food systems. Conventional, organic, local, and indigenous food systems are contrasted economically, environmentally, and socially. Productivity plus environmental and health impacts of these food systems are explored as well as policy responses. A virtual field trip in plus individual student contributions to Google Earth have students demonstrate how they have improved and are improving their understanding of a food system.