ENVM 539 - You are What You Eat: Agricultural and Environmental Approaches to Sustainable Food and Health (3)

This course emphasizes how the food choices we make every day have profound implications for human health and our environment. We live in a world where undernourishment is a severe challenge for over a billion people, and yet more than a billion and a half people are overnourished or obese. We will discuss the interactions among food, human health, and the environment at the individual scale and at the population scale, with focuses on food security, food production and distribution systems, population pressure, and the economic, historical, and political forces that shape food choices. Offered: Spring, on rotation.