Resource Economics 121 - Hunger In Globl Econ

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Jill Fitzsimmons
TU TH 8:30AM 9:45AM
UMass Amherst
32572
Herter Hall room 227
jfitzsim@umass.edu
Explores the causes of hunger (chronic undernutrition) from an economic perspective. Focus on how population growth and economic development are increasing demand for food and on the prospects for food production to supply those needs at affordable prices, while sustaining the environment. Discussion in the context of the global economy in which increased trade links even the poorest urban and rural residents in developing countries to market forces. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)
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