Familiarise yourself with the course site.

Learning materials:

• Make sure you have read and begun to engage with the Start Here menu.

Key activities:

1. Work through the learning materials for the Overview. It will help orientate your learning.
2. Complete the OERu new participant survey (optional).

A good place to start to understand Global Food Security is asking what being food secure means and understanding that many people on this earth, in particular from the developing world, on a daily basis face the existential threat of being food insecure..

Learning materials:

• Work through the learning materials for the Thinking Through Food Security
  • What is food security? and Hunger,

The global food system has become the dominant mechanism for food production and consumption in many parts of the world. To being we take we take a look at agriculture and its origins.

Learning materials:

• Work through the learning materials for Exploring the Global Food System
  • Origins and Development of Agriculture and Different types of farms and actors within the global food system,

In this week’s content Rob explores some of the normative statements you have been hearing throughout the unit. This week’s content will enable you to question:

Learning materials:

• Work through the learning materials for Ethics and choices: skills for tackling global food security
  • What are the grounds of ethics within global food security?

This week’s content will enable you to:

• Understand global population change from 1950 to the present and likely scenarios through to 2050.
• Reflect on the future in relation to ideas of global food security, and particularly on the relationship between the production of food production and the distribution of food.
• Consider the relationship between food and population.
• Understand the basic features of global food production change from 1950 to the present.
• Consider the relationship between food and economic inequality

Learning materials:

• Work through the learning materials for Population, Hunger, Inequality
  • Population and Hunger, Inequality