World Food Issues: Past and Present
FSHN 342, AG 342, Univ Stud 342, TSC 342 EnvS 342
Sections 1(in-class) and XW (online)
  Summer 2009
Instructor: Clark Ford
Teaching Assistant: Erica Fuchs
 

Hunger in North Korea 
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Course Syllabus

Introdution to Course Syllabus


Online (section xw) Course Schedule:

   This course is "self-paced" for online students, but we have some recommended dates for you to shoot for and some deadlines that we will need your quizzes and papers by in order to get them all graded.      During May and June you need to at least finish Sections 1-3 and the student presentation. 
    Then in July you will have one week for each of the remaining sections. 
    Of course, you may finish the whole course in June if you like.
    The deadlines for both the quizzes and reports for each section are as follows:

    Please finish: Sections 1-3 and the student presentation by July 10
                         Section 4 by July 17
                         Section 5 by July 24
                         Section 6 by July 31
                         Section 7 by August 7.


Section  1

In-class schedule: May 18-20
                          Quiz 1: May 20
Online schedule:   Recommended:  Quiz 1 on May 28
                          Deadline:  July 10.     

Study Guide for Section 1

World Hunger Introduction (Ch 1)
    
  Video: Never-ending famine in Ethiopia
        Reading:
Food Insecurity in the World 2005 (Download Flyer)  
        News Story: The Potato and World Hunger   

        World Hunger Facts 2008 (World Hunger Education Service)
UN Millennium Development Goals
       
Video: Millennium Development Goals
        News Story: MDG Progress in Nigeria
World Hunger 12 Myths (Food First)
        Reading: World Hunger 12 Myths
        Video: Frances Moore Lappe
Oxfam Hunger Banquet
        Video: Hunger Banquet Slideshow
Famines (Ch 2)
         Video: Letters from the Irish Potato Famine
         Video: Armenian Genocide, 1915
        
Video: Nazi Concentration Camps
       
  Video: Genocide in Darfur 
         News Story: Q&A Sudan's Darfur Conflict
         Video: History of Famines from "The Conquest of Poverty"       
      
Malnutrition (Ch 3)
       
Video: Living with hunger in Ethiopia            
        News Story: Obesity in Developing Countries


Section 2

In-class schedule: May 20-22
            `            
Nutrition Case Study Report due: May 21
                          Quiz 2: May 22
 Online schedule:  Recommended:  Nutrition Case Study on Report June 1,
Quiz 2 on June 4
                           Deadline: July 10.

Nutrition Case Study Report
Study Guide for Section 2

Measuring Undernutrition (Ch 4)
Impacts of Undernutrtion  (Ch 5,6)
      
Video: Underweight Children in India      
       Video: Treating Malnutrition in Zimbabwe
      
BBC World Food Day Quiz 2007
Constructing an Ethical Theory (Gary Varner)
Ethics and Hunger      
        Video: Right to food
        World Hunger a Moral Response   (Required Reading)
Economics
(Ch 7,8)  
Population (Ch 9)
      Video: Population
     
Video: Daniel Quinn on Agriculture and Population
      Video: Population explosion in Nigeria
      News Story: Slums and Future Global Urban Growth
Income Distribution and Undernutrition (Ch 10)
     
Video: Child labor in Pakistan 
     
Video: Slavery and Human Trafficking   
      News Story: Child Slave Trade

Factors Affecting Demand for Food (Ch 11)
Agricultural Land and Water (Ch 12)


Section 3

In-class schedule: May 26-28
                          News Report due: May 27
                          Quiz 3: May 28
Online schedule:  Recommended: News Report on June 8, Quiz 3 on June 11
                          Deadline: July 10

News Report
Study Guide for Section 3

Agricultural Production and the Environment (Ch 13)
      
Video: Global warming
       Video: Global warming cartoon
       Radio: Dude where is my cap-and-trade primer
      
Video: Biofuels versus food
       Video: World Food Crisis -- Global Meat Consumption
       News Story: Biofuels and World Hunger
       News Story: Meat Making Global Warming Worse
       News Story: Climate Change and the Poor--Adapt or Die
Ecological Footprints (Mathis Wackernagel)
      
How Big is Your Ecological Footprint?  (Redefining Progress)
      
Video: Population and the environment
Environmental Ethics
        Video: Deep Ecology
       Video: Vegetarian Argument (PETA)
       Video: Animal Agriculture is Environmentally Friendly

Environment vs Food (Food First)
Increasing Yields: The Green Revolution (Ch 14)
         Movie: America the Bountiful pt 6: Whereby We Thrive (Green Revolution history) (Shown in class.  Online students: link in online course materials with lectures)
       Video: Critiques of the Green Revolution
      
Video: New Green Revolution for India?
         Video: New Green Revolution for Africa?
Quality Protein Maize
Food Biotechnology Ethics
         
Advances in Plant Biotechnology (Required Reading)
 

Student Presentations

In-class schedule:   May 29-June 1

Online schedule:  Recommended: on June 18
                          Deadline: July 10

In Class Group Student Presentations  (Section 1)
Online Student Presentations (Section XW)
   

 Section 4

In-class schedule: June 1-3
                          Bihari Farmer Computer Simulation due: June 2
                          Quiz 4: June 3
Online schedule:   Recommended: Bihari Farmer Computer Simulation on June 25, Quiz 4 on July 2
                           Deadline: July 17

Bihari Farmer Computer Simulation
Study Guide for Section 4

Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
       Video: Guns Germs and Steel -- Writing
       Video: Guns Germs and Steel -- Germs

Worst Mistake  (Jared Diamond)
      
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (Required Reading)
       Video: Hunters and Gatherers in Africa
      
Video: The Agricultural Revolution: The Neolithic
       News Story: Hoodia and Kalahari Indigenous Bushmen
Agricultural Societies (Jared Diamond)
      
Video: Monty Python's King Arthur
       Video: Feudalism
       Video: Dark Ages     

World History: Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages
       
Video: Ancient Mesopotamia
        Video: History of Empires
       
Video: The great wall of China
     

Section 5

In-class schedule:  June 4-8
                           Movie Report due: June 5
                           Quiz 5: June 8
Online schedule:  Recommended: Movie Report on July 6, Quiz 5 on July 19
                          Deadline: July 24                        

Movie Report
Study Guide for Section 5

World History: Age of Discovery to Present
       
Video: Portugese Empire
        Video: 1492 (Genocide of Native Americans)
       
Video: Disney's Pocahontus: Mine!
        Video: French Revolution
       
Video: Great Leap Forward in China
        BBC Country Profile: Democratic Republic of Congo 2007
Women's Status in Agricultural Societies (Marvin Harris)
       
Video: Women in Afghanistan
        Video: Acid Attack on women in Bangladesh
       
Video: Child prostitution in India
        News Story: Domestic Violence and malnutrition in India
Development of Religion in State Societies (Marvin Harris)
Invention of Invention (D. Landes)
       
Video: Interview with Galileo
        Video: Ancient Chinese Inventions
The Market as a Principle of Exchange (E. L Shusky)          
       
Video: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911
        Video: Its a Wonderful Life: Bank Run, 1929
        News Story: Industrialization in China


Section 6

In-class schedule: June 8-10
                          Origins of Poverty in the Developing World Case Study due: June 9
                          Quiz 6: June 10
Online schedule:  Recommended: Origins of Poverty in the Developing World Case Study on July 16, Quiz 6 on July 23
                          Deadline: July 31

Origins of Poverty in the Developing World Case Study
Study Guide for Section 6

Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition (Ch 15)
       
Video: Healthy Child Uganda Program
       Video: Oral Rehydration Therapy in Cambodia
       News Story: Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Policy Approaches to Undernutrition (Ch 16)
Policies Aimed at Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition (Ch 17)
      
Video: Malnutrition in Haiti
      
Fortified Peanut Butter News Story 2007
      
AIDS and Hunger News Story 2007
Policies Aimed at Raising the Income of the Poor (Ch 18)
       Movie: Globalization is Good (shown in class, online students: link in online course materials with lectures)
Will the Free Market End Hunger? (Food First)
Free Trade (Food First)
       Video: Viewpoint on the WTO (War on Want)
Does The U.S. Feed the World?
Policies Aimed at Demographic Causes of Undernutrition (Ch 19)
      
Video: Promoting Birth Control in India
       Video: Women Shackled
      
Video: One child policy in China
Policies that Subsidize Food Consumption  (Ch 20)
       Movie: A question of Aid - Kerala and Bangladesh
(shown in class, online students: link in online course materials with lectures)


Section 7

In-class schedule:  June 10-12
                           Aid Organization Report due: June 11
                           Quiz 7: June 12
Online schedule:    Recommended: Aid Organization Report on July 30, Quiz 7 on Aug 6
                            Deadline: August 7

Aid Organization Report
Study Guide for Section 7

The End of Poverty (Jeffrey Sachs)
      
Time Magazine Story 2005: The End of Poverty (Required Reading)
       Video: Awaiting Tomorrow -- People Living with AIDS in Africa
      
New Face of Hunger News Story 2008
Policies Aimed at Improving Access to Food (Ch 21)
Farm Subsidies (Ch 22)
Supply Subsidies (C
h 23)
      
Food Sovereignty (Required Reading)
       
Video: Vandanna Shiva on food Sovereignty
      
Video: Microfinance in the developing world
Future Scenarios (Ch 24)
What Can We Do About World Hunger? (Food First)
Relief and Development Organizations
      
Movie: Peace Corps (shown in class, online students: link in online course materials with lectures)
       Movie: Heiffer International (shown in class, online students: link in online course materials with lectures)
       One Laptop Per Child
      
Kiva.org: Microfinance a loan for someone in the developing world
       Video: World Vision  (Chirstian)
       Video: Muslim Aid
       Video: World Food Program
       Video: World Food Prize 2007 -- Food Preservation in the Developing World
      
Video: Children International
      
Video: What Australians Give to Relieve Poverty and Hunger
 
Book Recommendations



Classroom Info
 

Course Syllabus
Nutrition Case Study Report
News Report
Bihari Farmer Computer Simulation
Movie Report
Group Student Presentations
Origins of Poverty in the Developing World Case Study
Aid Organization Report
Extra Credit Paper
Erica's Guide to Finding Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles
Erica's Description of Ethical Theories and Principles

Charities

Childreach (PLAN)
Children International
Feed the children

Kiva.org: make a Microfinance loan
One Laptop Per Child
Heiffer International
Self Help International: from Waverly IA

Movie Trailers

    Africa:
      
Blood Diamond
      
Hotel Rwanda
      
The Constant Gardner      
      
The Last King of Scotland
       Beyond Borders
       Out of Africa
       Lord of War
         
    Asia:      
       Mongol
       Alexander
    `  The Kingdom of Heaven
       The Last Emperor
      
Gandhi
       The Ugly American
      
The Killing Fields
      
Salaam Bombay
       The Kite Runner

       Slumdog Millionaire
      
    Britain:
 
     King Arthur
      
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves    
       The Other Bolyn Girl
       Braveheart
      
Amazing Grace
      
Oliver Twist
     
    Europe:      
       
Gladiator
       Joan of Arc
      
Goya's Ghosts
       Les Miserables
       
Fiddler on the Roof
       Reds
       Angela's Ashes
       Schlindler's List 
          
    North America:  
       Amistad      
       Gone With the Wind
      
The Great Debaters   
       Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
      
The Last of the Mohicans
       Hawaii
      
Titanic      
      
The Grapes of Wrath
       Battle in Seattle

    Central and South America:
      
1492: The Conquest of Paradise
       
The Mission
       Apocalypto
      
The Motorcycle Diaries
       Evita

       City of God

    Documentary:     
       An Inconvenient Truth
      
Fast Food Nation
       Guns Germs and Steel (Parts 1-18)