GEOG 639Food Systems and Sustainability

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Environment
Subject: Geography and Environmental Management

Not in the current Graduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in Winter 2025.

When it runs

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

The course examines emerging and existing sustainable food systems from a North American and EU perspective. Topics may include: technology, nature and society; policy dimensions in North American and the EU; knowledge and power; spaces of consumption; the moral economy; new urbanism and food planning; and, food networks such as commodity chains and fairly traded food.

Prerequisites

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Antirequisites

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Leads to

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In 33 terms, Fall 2009 to Winter 2024