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Lecturer(s)
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Sassi Maria, prof.
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Šafaříková Simona, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course is divided in three blocks: 1: Food security and policies 2: Agricultural development 3: Climate change
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on developing countries and aims to describe the main features of food security and food security policies in the current context, and to understand the role of agricultural development. The specific focus is on food security, agriculture, and climate change. The course is taught within the EMJMD IDS (Glodep, http://glodep.eu/) program at University of Pavia (Pavia, Italy).
Students fully understand and focus on food security, food policies in the developing world. They are able to analyze major agricultural challenges in the current development world.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
written exam, attendance
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Recommended literature
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Maria Sassi. Understanding food insecurity. Forthcoming.
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Webber, C. M., Labaste, P. (2010). Building competitiveness in Africa?s agriculture : a guide to value chain concepts and applications. The World Bank, Washington D.C.
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