Nutritional Poverty and Nutrition Security

44M0573

Master

Englisch

5.0

nur Sommersemester

1 Semester

Changes in society and climate lead to different forms of crises which negatively affect the food and nutrition system. This course specifically focuses on problems connected with progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2. The course explores the global and regional aspects of nutritional poverty as well as the status of nutrition and food security and discusses these from different perspectives.

• Specific aspects of global nutrition
• Definitions of poverty and especially nutrition poverty
• Model and theory of food and nutrition security
• Human right to food
• National and international actors
• Background and progress in reaching SDG 1 and 2
• global and regional development and progress
• influencing factors of reaching SDG 1 and 2

Der Arbeitsaufwand für das Modul umfasst insgesamt 150 Stunden (siehe auch "ECTS-Leistungspunkte und Benotung").

• mündliche Prüfung oder
• Hausarbeit

The standard form of examination is an oral exam. Any deviation from this will be announced in the first four weeks after the start of lectures.

Oral examination: ca. 20-30 minutes

basic understanding of human nutrition

Students ...

• are able to describe theories and models of nutrition poverty as well as food and nutrition security.
• can identify the context between nutrition poverty, nutrition security and land use.

Students ...

• are able to describe potential solutions concerning social problems (e.g. population structure, migration), education and socio-economic structures leading to rising nutrition poverty.
• are able to reflect on availability, access, use and utilisation, and nutritional status as basics of the nutrition security.

Students are able to contrast and compare different solutions for fighting nutritional poverty and achieving nutrition/ food security on regional, national and international levels.

Students choose their own country examples for further research on specific problems concerning nutritional poverty and nutrition security and present their results.

Students exchange their expertise and experience from different scientific fields and cooperate to identify driving problems of nutritional poverty and nutrition security and discuss solutions.

Students develop a critical approach to scientific perspectives and a self-understanding of responsible cooperation and communication.

• Straka, Dorothee

• Straka, Dorothee