Module: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Food Security (4901-810)

This module not offered anymore!

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Manfred Zeller (verantwortlich)
• PD Dr. rer. nat. Veronika Scherbaum (begleitend)
• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch (begleitend)
• Prof. Dr. Hans-K. Biesalski (begleitend)
• Dr. Thea Nielsen (begleitend)
• Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier (begleitend)
• Dr. Khalid Siddig (begleitend)
• Prof. Dr. Regina Birner (begleitend)

Degree Program:

• PhD-Programme Agricultural Sciences (Doctoral degree programmes, since 20.02.2009)
  1. Semester, semi-elective

Relation to other Modules:

Module 4902-430 - Food and Nutrition Security

Prerequisites for Attendance:

Participation in the PhD-Programme Agricultural Sciences, compulsory for the PhD-Programme FSC-Global Food Security

Sprache:

English

ECTS:

6 credits

Frequency:

every winter semester

Length of the Module:

1 semester

Module examination:

Interdisciplinary case studies by groups (25%), Seminar paper by student (50 %) plus its presentation in seminar (25%)

Workload:

56 h presence + 104 h preparation at home + exam = 160 h workload

Professional competences:

- Scientific and interdisciplinary competence in issues of food availability, access, use, quality and safety as well as utilization



Specific topics of lectures:
- Definition and measurement methods of food security at na-tional, household and individual level (Zeller)
- Gender, food security and nutrition (Bellows/Scherbaum)
- Food quality (Biesalski)
- Global and regional challenges of food security, incl. global trends in food production and trade, causes, and economic im-plication (Brockmeier)
- Institutional policies (microfinance, land policy) and safety net policies (Zeller)
- Sustainability of food production (Cadisch)
- Verifying new qualification by conducting interdisciplinary case studies on food policy (Guest professor FSC/Nielsen)

Key competences:

Team ability
- Team competence, through case studies conducted by interdis-ciplinary groups
Presentation skills
Writing a seminar paper

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