Unit Food security and climate change
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- A001450
- Curriculum
- Migration, globalisation and world governance
- Teacher
- Luca Pieroni
- Teachers
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- Luca Pieroni
- Hours
- 36 ore - Luca Pieroni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- This course offers conceptual frameworks to understand the importance of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation and mitigation options for improved food security. Topics covered include the effect of green revolution, the right to food and the impact of climate, immigration consequences as well as risk reductions by mainstreaming national risk management policy frameworks in policies and programmes for sustainable development implemented from the EU. The course also includes some case-study and explores food and climate topics that directly affect developing countries. Students will also be fully equipped with the tools needed to understand and contribute to policy debates on this suggestive topic.
- Reference texts
- Robert Paarlberg (2013) Food Politics- What everyone needs to know, Oxford University Press.
- Educational objectives
- It is expected that students of "Food Security and Climate Change" know how to interpret the underlying mechanisms concerning political, social and economic effects generated by climate change and food insecurity. In particular, he/she should be fully equipped with the tools needed to understand and contribute to policy debates.
- Prerequisites
- There are no specific prerequisites to attend "Food Security and Climate Change".
- Teaching methods
- The course is taught with a multidisciplinary approach involving teachers from different disciplines.
If pandemic emergency will continue, teaching will take place also online. - Learning verification modality
- The examination includes multiple choice questions along with a final presentation on a topic chosen by the student.
If pandemic emergency will continue, examination will take place also online. - Extended program
- The course is open to the students interested in obtaining training credits related to seminars and workshops. For this purpose, the course is divided into two modules, each corresponding to 3 CFU (Module A: lessons 1-8; Module B: lessons 9-16). In order to acquire the related credits, students will be required to submit a report on a topic chosen from those covered in class.
Students who have included the course in their study plan will find all the necessary information on the website of the Department of Political Sciences (http://www.scipol.unipg.it/corsi-di-studio).
The course program will be illustrated to students in the first class