World Food Issues: Past and Present
FSHN 342, AG 342, Univ Stud 342, TSC 342 EnvS 342
  Online Sections XV (May 17- July 9) and XW (June 14 - Aug 6)
Summer 2010
Instructor: Clark Ford

 

Hunger in North Korea 
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Course Syllabus Section XV
Course Syllabus Section XW
Introdution to Course Syllabus


Course Section 1:
World Hunger, Famines, Malnutrition  

    Online Section XV:  May 17-21
                                    Quiz 1: May 21

    Online Section XW: June 14-18
                                    Quiz 1: June 18 

Study Guide for Section 1

World Hunger Introduction (Ch 1)
    
  Video: Famine in Ethiopia
        Reading:
Food Insecurity in the World 2005 (Download Flyer)  
        News Story: The Potato and World Hunger   

        World Hunger Facts 2009 (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


 Course Section 2:
Hunger Ethics, Economics, Population

    Online Section XV:  May 24-28
                                    Nutrition Report due May 25                        
                                    Quiz 2: May 28

    Online Section XW:  June 21-25
                                     Nutrition Report due June 22
                                     Quiz 2: June 25

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)  
Population (Ch 8)
      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 9)
      Video: World Air Traffic (Distribution of wealth)
     
Video: Child labor in Pakistan 
     
Video: Slavery and Human Trafficking   
      News Story: Child Slave Trade

Factors Affecting Demand for Food (Ch 10)
Agricultural Land and Water (Ch 11)


Course Section 3:  Environment, Agriculture, Biotechnology

   Online Section XV: June 1-4
                                  News Report due June 2
                                  Quiz 3: June 4

   Online Section XW: June 28- July 2
                                   News Report due June 29
                                   Quiz 3: July 2

News Report
Study Guide for Section 3

Agricultural Production and the Environment (Ch 12)
      
Video: Global warming
       Video: Global warming cartoon
       Radio: Dude where is my cap-and-trade primer
      
Video: Biofuels versus food
       Video: World Food Crisis
       News Story: Biofuels and World Hunger
       News Story: Meat Making Global Warming Worse
Ecological Footprints (Mathis Wackernagel)
      
How Big is Your Ecological Footprint?  (Redefining Progress)
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 13, 14)
         Movie: America the Bountiful pt 6: Whereby We Thrive (Green Revolution history) (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?
         News Debate: Can Biotech Food Solve World Hunger?
         News Story: The Fight over the Future of Food
Quality Protein Maize
Food Biotechnology Ethics
         
Advances in Plant Biotechnology (Required Reading) 
 

 Course Section 4: Agricultural Revolution, Ancient History

   Online Section XV: June 7-11
                                  Bihari Farmer Report due June 8
                                  Quiz 4: June 11

   Online Section XW: July 6 -9
                                   Bihari Farmer Report due July 7
                                   Quiz 4: July 9

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
    

Course Section 5:  Modern History, Industrial Revolution

   Online Section XV: June 14-18
                                  Movie Report due June 15
                                  Quiz 5: June 18

   Online Section XW: July 12-16
                                  
Movie Report due July 13
                                   Quiz 5: July 16

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


Course Section 6: Policies for Health, Globalization, Food Subsidies

  
Online Section XV: June 21-25
                                  Origins of Poverty and Hunger Report due June 22
                                  Quiz 6: June 25

   Online Section XW: July 19-23
                                  
Origins of Poverty and Hunger Report due July 20
                                   Quiz 6: July 23

Origins of Poverty and Hunger Report
Study Guide for Section 6

Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition (Ch 15)
Policies Aimed at Health-Related Causes of Undernutrition
       Video: Healthy Child Uganda Program
       Video: Oral Rehydration Therapy in Cambodia
       News Story: Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Policy Approaches to Undernutrition (Ch 16)
      
Video: Malnutrition in Haiti
      
Fortified Peanut Butter in Haiti News Story 2010
      
AIDS and Hunger News Story 2007
       Haiti Slides (World Food Issues Student, Spring Break 2010)
Guest Lecture: Eric Nonnecke Uganda Maternal Health Research
Policies Aimed at Raising the Income of the Poor (Ch 17)
       Movie: Globalization is Good (also linked 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 18)
      
Video: Promoting Birth Control in India
       Video: Women Shackled
      
Video: One child policy in China
Policies that Subsidize Food Consumption  (Ch 19)
       Movie: A question of Aid - Kerala and Bangladesh
( link in online course materials with lectures)
         Video: Food Aid Ethics

Course Section 7: Policies for Agriculture, Aid, Development

    Online Section XV: June 28- July 2
                                  Aid Organization Report due June 29
                                  Quiz 7: July 2

    Online Section XW: July 26-30
                                  
Aid Organization Report due July 27
                                   Quiz 7: July 30

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
       Video: Haiti Food Crisis 2008
Policies Aimed at Improving Access to Food (Ch 20)C
Farm Subsidies (Ch 21)
Supply Subsidies (C
h 22)
      
Food Sovereignty (Required Reading)
       
Video: Vandanna Shiva on food Sovereignty
      
Video: Microfinance in the developing world
Future Scenarios (Ch 23)
          News Story:  For Brazil it's Finally Tomorrow
        News Story:  The coming famine
What Can We Do About World Hunger? (Food First)
Relief and Development Organizations
      
Movie: Peace Corps (link in online course materials with lectures)
       Movie: Heiffer International (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

Student Presentations

   Online Section XV: Powerpoint Presentation due by July 9  
                              
  Online Section XW: 
Powerpoint Presentation due by Aug 6

  Powerpint Presentations 


No Final Exam

Extra Credit Report
   Online Section XV: Due by July 9
   Online Section XW: Due by Aug 6
  

Classroom Info
 

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
Medicine for Mali: from Des Moines IA


Movie Trailers

    Africa:
      
Blood Diamond
      
Hotel Rwanda
      
The Constant Gardner      
      
The Last King of Scotland
       Beyond Borders
       Out of Africa
       Lord of War
       Tears of the Sun
       Blackhawk Down
         
    East Asia:      
       Mongol
       The Last Emperor
      
The Killing Fields
       Good Morning Vietnam

    South Asia
      
Gandhi
      
Salaam Bombay
       The Kite Runner

       Slumdog Millionaire

    West Asia
      
Alexander
       The Kingdom of Heaven
      
Syriana

    Australia:
        Australia     

    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      
     
  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
       Food Inc.
       The Age of Stupid
       Workingman's Death
       Life and Debt
       Year Zero: Story of a Khmer Rouge Soldier
       Guns Germs and Steel (Parts 1-18)