SOC 16 - Food,Famine,and Farming in the Global

Institution:

Bristol Community College

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Description:

VillageThis course analyzes the social structural forces that shape the global food system with particular focus on societal problems emanating from the fossil fuel-based, industrial agricultural model that now dominates world-wide food production, distribution, and consumption. Areas covered included an historical overview of subsistence strategies, the Green Revolution, threats to food security and water access, first-world obesity and third-world famine, the impact on food systems due to climate change and fossil fuel depletion, population swells, food-based social movements, and alternative food systems. Three hours of lecture per week. 3 credits Fall

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

bristolcc.edu/

Phone Number:

(508) 678-2811

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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