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This course is designed to help students examine food policy and the political landscape of food in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. Ensuring food security for the growing, global population is a grand challenge and one that has many contentious issues. Conflicts regarding land, technology, natural resources, subsidies, inequity, and trade are all being played out in the food policy arena. Some argue, that to effectively address food security, global food systems must be efficient, equitable, and sustainable. However, the political framing of how food systems are designed, function, and governed are determined by a complex set of networks of individuals and institutions with vested interests. This course will expand students’ knowledge of global food systems and the policies that impact global food security, human nutrition, and broader aspects of health, food safety, economics, and the environment. Students who take this course will analyze both domestic and international food policy processes along with the key players involved in global food governance.