syllabus
EEP 260: WORLD FOOD, POPULATION & POVERTY (3 credits)
Fall 2013
Tu-Th 8:30-9:50
N101 North Kedzie
Dr. Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Michigan State University
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course explores key concepts and issues related to world food, population, and poverty; and their interrelationships. The concepts presented in this course provide students with an analytical framework for critically assessing current trends in development and poverty in light of the rapid changes in the structure of food demand, supply and distribution. The course explores alternative solutions to food, population, and poverty problems, including the role of new technology, institutional change, government policies and trade.
II. COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successfully completing EEP 260, students should know key facts, issues, and concepts related to world food, population, and poverty, and be able to: o discuss the interrelationship between poverty problems and world food supply, demand and distribution
o
apply basic economic principles to analyzing recent trends and emerging challenges in the world food situation, and
o
clearly identify relevant principles associated with food demand, production and distribution in the news media; largely newspapers and other information sources.
III. COURSE CONDUCT
1. Classes will follow the lecture/discussion mode. Videos and group discussions will supplement lectures and readings. 2. Class attendance is required. Select a seat by the third class period (September 5, Thursday) and sit in the same seat each day. You are responsible for arriving in class on time. Fifteen minutes after the official class start time; 8:30, i.e. at 8:45am, the class doors will be closed and students not in class by then will be considered absent. Student attendance will be taken using your i-clicker. It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that their i-clicker has
Fall 2013
Tu-Th 8:30-9:50
N101 North Kedzie
Dr. Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Michigan State University
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course explores key concepts and issues related to world food, population, and poverty; and their interrelationships. The concepts presented in this course provide students with an analytical framework for critically assessing current trends in development and poverty in light of the rapid changes in the structure of food demand, supply and distribution. The course explores alternative solutions to food, population, and poverty problems, including the role of new technology, institutional change, government policies and trade.
II. COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successfully completing EEP 260, students should know key facts, issues, and concepts related to world food, population, and poverty, and be able to: o discuss the interrelationship between poverty problems and world food supply, demand and distribution
o
apply basic economic principles to analyzing recent trends and emerging challenges in the world food situation, and
o
clearly identify relevant principles associated with food demand, production and distribution in the news media; largely newspapers and other information sources.
III. COURSE CONDUCT
1. Classes will follow the lecture/discussion mode. Videos and group discussions will supplement lectures and readings. 2. Class attendance is required. Select a seat by the third class period (September 5, Thursday) and sit in the same seat each day. You are responsible for arriving in class on time. Fifteen minutes after the official class start time; 8:30, i.e. at 8:45am, the class doors will be closed and students not in class by then will be considered absent. Student attendance will be taken using your i-clicker. It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that their i-clicker has